Review of Hardwired (2009) by Dave J — 20 Feb 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012.
(2009) Hardwired.
SCIENCE-FICTION/ THRILLER.
Straight-to-rental but upon watching it, it's like a combination of a lot of science-fiction films with a message and like watching an original movie from a Philip K. Dick story which takes place in the ravaged future and the Chinese yen is worth more than the American dollar, and marketing companies are the only way that's making money. To make it as simple as possible, a car accident insues killing Cuba Gooding's wife and his unborn baby resulting in a corporation implanting a micro chip into his brain. Upon waking up, most or all of his previous personal experiences had been wiped clean including his relationship to his deceased wife only that the only thing that is replacing those memories are commercial ads and marketing similar to what people see on televsion. Everytime he questions or becomes curious about this new type of technolgy, the firm that did this to him always seem to know about he's been up to because of monitor cameras around the city and have the ability to make his head explode, except that someone has hacked into the firm's computers preventing any of that sort of thing to happen and are trying to use him to find out the answers. Nearly every scene through out is a new revelation which is a combination of alot of films main one being 'Eagle Eye" to "Total Recall" to "Enemy Of The State".
The first 25 minutes is quite boring when it showed a man's head getting blowned up but upon watching it further viewers get to understand how, why and how come! It's a thinking film that suggests another possibility about how far advertising firms go to get people to buy their products!
3 out of 4.
This review of Hardwired (2009) was written by Dave J on 20 Feb 2012.
Hardwired has generally received negative reviews.
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