Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)

User Rating:

2.1/10   

Director:

Farhad Mann

Writers (WGA):

Farhad Mann (story) and
Michael Miner (story) ...

Release Date:

12 January 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

God made him simple. Science made him a god. Now, he wants revenge.

Plot:

Jobe is resuscitated by Jonathan Walker. He wants Jobe to create a special computer chip that would...

Plot Keywords:

Part Computer Animation | Cyberpunk | Cyberspace | Virtual Reality | Sequel

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Patrick Bergin	...	Dr. Benjamin Trace
Matt Frewer	...	Jobe Smith
Austin O'Brien	...	Peter Parkette
Ely Pouget	...	Dr. Cori Platt
Camille Cooper	...	Jennifer
Patrick LaBrecque	...	Shawn (as Patrick La Brecque)
Crystal Celeste Grant	...	Jade
Sean P. Young	...	Travis
Mathew Valencia	...	Homeless Kid
Kevin Conway	...	Jonathan Walker
Trever O'Brien	...	Young Peter
Richard Fancy	...	Senator Greenspan
Ellis Williams	...	Chief of Security
Castulo Guerra	...	Guillermo
Molly Shannon	...	Homeless Lady

Also Known As:

Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War (video title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action/violence and brief language.

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #33543) | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Spain:13 | UK:12

Company:

Allied Entertainments Group PLC

Trivia:

Austin O'Brien is the only returning cast members from the first film.

Goofs:

Continuity: At the end of the first movie, Jobe's body was hideously stretched by his complete transfer into VR space, and there is no way he could have survived in this movie.

Quotes:

Dr. Trace: We came to save you, Jobe.
Jobe: In here, I am the savior.

Movie Connections:

Follows The Lawnmower Man (1992)

The Abortion That Somehow Survived...

An epic of unbounded worthlessness...

I always hate it when the sequel ignores the ending of the previous film and come up with a nonsensical way to continue the series on(Escape from the Planet of the Apes was the first to do that, though there was some redeeming value to continuing that particular series).

Anyway, dreadful as a descriptive term is not really enough. Abomination is more apt. Somehow the future has become a rainy Blade-Runner-esqe culture with lots of orphan kids banding together in subterranean hovels hacking the net and using words like "cool" a lot while fighting the Big Evil Fascist Programming Corporation. And becoming allied to Neo-Navaho Chip designers who've moved in to the Unibomber's cabin.

Enough with trying to describe this spam on film. It's main star, like the plot, has no legs to stand on right from the outset.

The Computer animation was far inferior to the first film, like low-grade hamburger is to prime-rib. Hamburger left out on the counter overnight. Phew!

A list of the faults and problems with this film could fill volumes and I'd just like to say AVOID THIS TORTURE, especially if you halfway liked the first film. This one completely ruins the first and even complaining about it won't help the sour taste left in your mouth after you swallow back your own bile.

Really, really ghastly...