When this first came out, I really wanted to see it. It’s been several years, and now I kind of wish I hadn’t. The story is compelling and the acting is good, but there’s just one problem – it doesn’t make sense. For a plot that’s supposed to take place in pretty much the present day and in modern times, there’s an element of fantasy that I just wasn’t willing to accept. It’s almost magical how the main character dies and is transported through time, having the ability to change things with only his mind. It just didn’t work for me. On the scale, it’s a 1.5, so… too bad.

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.

I thought it was too long, and also too graphic. Mockumentary type films must be both of those things, I’m afraid. Jake Gyllenhaal looks like a tard with a shaved head. But he got to play the part of a Marine Scout Sniper, which lessened the effect of him looking like a tard for the whole movie. Then he didn’t ever get to shoot anything the entire time he was in Iraq, so once again he began to seem like less of a regular man in my mind and more of a retarded man. I’d say watch this movie, if you like war films that don’t have any fighting in them. Or if you dig military movies where the majority of the characters’ dialog revolves around poo and/or masturbation. I’m not even kidding, but I still gave it a three on the awesomeness scale because it was pretty realistic. Not the dialog… the whole “what it’s like to be in Iraq” bit.