Keanu Reeves’ acting has never been anything to wet your shorts about, but in this futuristic setting the laid-back, cool kind of “dude” vibe sort of works for him. The concept is pretty interesting too: Johnny is like a foot messenger – only he transports huge amounts of data over long distances in an artificial memory bank implanted in his head. If you’re not a geek of incredible magnitude like myself, you might not be as into the whole sci-fi theme, but there’s still plenty of action. Plus, you might like to watch explosive cars being dropped from a gigantic tower, and if so you’ll enjoy this movie because that happens at least twice.

What starts out as a typical romantic comedy begins to collapse about halfway through before finishing out in a cataclysmic fireball of pointless doom. It gets a one-half flame because the combo of Christina Applegate and Selma Blair makes the, er… cinematography… palatable. But it loses 4.5 flames due to a lame plot rife with gross-out humor that is more gross than humorous, slapstick that would do good to consult the Three Stooges for timing and originality points, and the fact that it has Cameron Diaz in it. Skip this, if you have another movie to watch. Just say no. I’m not kidding.