Is Johnny Mnemonic a good movie?

"Johnny Mnemonic" is one of the great goofy gestures of recent cinema, a movie that doesn't deserve one nanosecond of serious analysis but has a kind of idiotic grandeur that makes you almost forgive it.
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Is Cyberpunk 2077 related to Johnny Mnemonic?

Fortunately, Keanu's outrageous cast of co-stars ensures that Johnny Mnemonic doesn't fall flat. Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers, the Saw franchise) plays a cybernetically-enhanced bodyguard who effectively shadows the entire premise of 2020 mega-game Cyberpunk 2077 (Keanu's the face of this one, too).
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Why is Johnny Mnemonic rated R?

Scenes of people dying in a hospital. A shoot-out, with some people dying from bloody wounds. A few explosions. LANGUAGE 6 - About 25 F-words, about 20 scatological terms, and many milder obscenities.
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Is Johnny Mnemonic The Matrix?

9. Cyberpunk – William Gibson—who wrote Johnny Mnemonic as a short story in 1981 and adapted it into the screenplay—actually coined the term “matrix” and its relation to cyberspace.
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Is Johnny Mnemonic on Netflix?

Johnny Mnemonic is now streaming on Netflix.
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How much memory did Johnny Mnemonic have?

On the way to the job, in the elevator he uses a Pemex Memory Doubler to upgrade his memory capacity from 80 gigabytes to 160 gigabytes.
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What year is Johnny Mnemonic based in?

Because 2021—welcome! —is the year in which Johnny Mnemonic, the story of a mysterious epidemic and the one man who might put an end to it, is set.
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Where is Johnny Mnemonic set?

Set in the 'New Jersey' and 'Beijing' of 2021, Johnny Mnemonic was filmed in Toronto and Montréal. The 'Beijing' hotel is in Toronto's southwestern suburb of Mississauga. In Toronto itself, Udo Kier's 'New Jersey' nightclub is The Opera House, 735 Queen Street East.
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What book is Johnny Mnemonic based on?

Incidentally, Johnny Mnemonic is based on a William Gibson short story of the same name, from the collection Burning Chrome. The short story is also good, but very different from the movie and not nearly as funny.
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What happens at the end of Johnny Mnemonic?

Overwhelmed by the noise and the strange environment, he jumps through a hole in the floor and falls to his death. The story closes nearly a year later, with Johnny now living among the Lo Teks.
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What is cyberpunk based off of?

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red's studios in Warsaw and Kraków, while the Wrocław office devoted about forty people to research and development. It is based on Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk role-playing game franchise; Pondsmith started consulting on the project in 2012.
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Is there a Neuromancer movie?

William Gibson's 1984 novel, Neuromancer, has been passed between filmmakers for years, but nothing concrete has ever materialized. At this point, it seems unlikely that it ever will. Neuromancer follows Case, a former cyberspace cowboy, who's employed to steal people's information and secrets through the matrix.
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Is Johnny Mnemonic Neo?

The courier is called Johnny Mnemonic – though no one in the film uses that last name – and he is played with those weirdly childlike, vulnerable, faintly robotic-wooden mannerisms by Keanu Reeves, who four years later became Neo in The Matrix, a film to which this was in some ways a forerunner.
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How rich is Keanu Reeves?

Reeves has an estimated net worth of $380 million.
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Does Keanu Reeves like sci fi?

Furthermore, the actor has a Boom! Comic book series and upcoming adaptation that comes from his mind. Even films like the Bill and Ted trilogy, while comedies are science fiction at their core. It's safe to say that Reeves loves science fiction.
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Are there any Keanu Reeves movies on Netflix?

Keanu Reeves movies on Netflix

The one we're referring to is 2018's Siberia, starring Reeves along with Ana Ularu and Pasha D. Lychnikoff.
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Is Keanu Reeves in cyberpunk?

Reeves stars in Cyberpunk 2077 as Johnny Silverhand, who is with the main character for most of the story. The actor was a big part of the promotion for the game, including his on-stage appearance at E3 2019.
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Who streams Johnny Mnemonic?

Currently you are able to watch "Johnny Mnemonic" streaming on Netflix.
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Did the name iPhone come from Johnny Mnemonic?

The English subtitles on Netflix show Johnny's use of the word "eye-phone" as "iPhone".
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