Hologram Man
THE STORY: Look out! Its Arnold Rimmer with an attitude! Thats an in-joke for Red Dwarf fans.
In the future dangerous criminals are put into stasis and their personalities are digitized. While existing only as computer programs they undergo 'reprogramming' to make them model citizens. Enter dangerous revolutionary Norman 'Slash' Gallagher. Slash kills Governor Hampton and police captain Wes Strickland,(John Amos!) but is captured by rookie officer Decoda. Five years later the California Corporation has control of Los Angeles. Its time for the board to review Slash's progress in the computer. A disgruntled computer expert known as Giggles helps Slash's old gang in freeing his mind from the computer. The result makes Slash into an indestructible hologram! The corporation leader, Jameson orders the now police captian Decoda to stop Slash.
Now get this...Slash wants to destroy the corporation, which from what we see of it is EVIL AND CORRUPT. To be honest I think Slash was right! Of course he has to kill a lot of people and generally act kind of nutty so the audience won't sympathize with him, but in the end, Slash was right. The people have no freedom and there should be a revolution! Even Decoda, the hero says that! (Hey, the movie set the premise, not me!) Slash succeeds in causing mayhem and eventually kills Decoda! Decoda's girlfriend, Natalie, a computer whiz (her father invented the whole hologram/prisoner thing) brings Decoda back as a hologram. Now, empowered like Slash, Decoda defeats his enemy. Seeing that Jameson will never release his greedy grip on the people of LA, Decoda kills him too. When Natalie asks what they should do now he simply says 'Vote!'.
BEST LINE: "F*** Him!"- Captain Strickland to Decoda. Strickland refuses to help one of Slash's men that has been injured.
"I may be a little misunderstood, but I am not SICK"- Slash on his mental health.
"Look at it this way...if you were standing at ground zero and an H-Bomb went off, it wouldn't even faze him!"- Natalie explains why Slash's hologram form is invincible.
are you kidding me?:
1.) Whoa! Its John Amos! James Evans from Good Times! (He also played the older Kunta Kinte in Roots!) Betcha a dollar he gets killed off before the end. He's a good actor, he's a minority and he's Decoda's mentor...yep, he's a corpse.
2.) The governor doesn't want to reroute his motorcade because the gangs will think they intimidate him? HUH? Shouldn't the route be secret anyway? Who is going to know? I want to smack the person who thought that up.
3.) YEP! John Amos is dead! About ten minutes into this! I knew as soon as the governor asked him when his last vacation was and how come he doesn't retire that he was a dead man. Hell, any minority characters in the area were dead as soon as he said that!
4.) Uh, the future doesn't look very futuristic.
5.) Its illegal to turn off the corporation News Broadcast!? What is this, Orwell's 1984? Good Lord! I think Slash is right! Power to the people! The corporation sucks!
6.) Man, **** Decoda...Slash has better lines, the corporation does suck and there should be a revolution!
7.) OKAY! Slash and Decoda smack each other around and send each other flying for thirty feet. We get the idea...they're superstrong....can we get on with the climax, please?
NUDITY AND SEX: Slash has a sex scene in the first five minutes.
HUH?: In the beginning of the film, Strickland says Decoda is a rookie, but he's addressed as a leiutenant. Huh? In the military you can be a rookie and a leiutenant, but I thought it was different in the police force.
How did Slash get the Governor out of the limo with Strickland and Decoda there?
What the hell is Decoda even dealing with Jameson for? He's evil! More evil than Slash! Some hero. He doesn't make a stand until the end when he's an invincible hologram! Wuss.
Speaking of that, he takes it pretty well for someone who gets killed and comes back as a hologram!
Why did Decoda put bullets into Slash's mindless body for? If Slash wanted it back he probably intended to become human again...thus he could be easily captured! Think, man, think!
I'm sorry, Slash had the right idea. He may have been a criminal, but the corporation is evil and Jameson is a Class-A dick. If this was the real world I'd be on Slash's side.
THE TALLY: This movie was in a word, stupid. I don't get why they made the corporation so evil though...that only made Decoda look like a wimpy hero for following orders. This is a movie! Heroes have to be more daring in this kind of flick! Half the time I was hoping Slash would end up being the hero. Decoda didn't stand up to Jameson and the corporation until he had become a hologram. Giggles was played by William Sanderson...do you know why I know that? because I see him in so many cheesey flicks (and some good ones) that I finally bothered to find out his name! Off the top of my head he was in Blade Runner, Skeeter, Mirror Mirror, and Mirror Mirror Two. He's one of those guys you see but never know what his real name is. (unless you make it a point to read the credits) Kudos to him! he's gotta be one of the hardest working actors in b-movies!