Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace Movie Review 1995

Resurrecting Jobe (the title character from number one) was easy. So was blowing off his face to explain the new actor (Frewer in for Fahey) playing him. The hard part was tring to make an original movie with a decent script and believable characters. Better luck next time. Corporate baddie Walker (Conway) enlists Jobe to (what else?) take over the world using Virtual Reality. To the rescue comes one burned-out computer expert (Bergin) and a group of VR-addicted kids living in an abandoned subway. Techno-babble abounds but nothing interesting ever happens. Mann and Frewer must've raided their old "Max Headroom" set for the dreary near-future L.A. landscape scenes.

Distribution

New Line Home Video, 116 N. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048, Phone: (310)854-5811, Fax: (310)854-1824, URL: http://www.newline.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 93 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sci Fi, Cyberpunk, Computers, L.A., Childhood Visions, Corporate Shenanigans, Mad Scientists, Technology--Rampant, Virtual Reality

Screenplay

Farhad Mann

Cast

Patrick Bergin, Matt Frewer, Austin O'Brien, Kevin Conway, Ely Pouget, Camille (Cami) Cooper

Cinematography

Ward Russell

Director

Farhad Mann

Music

Robert Folk

Producer

Keith Fox, Edward Simons, Avram Butch Kaplan, Peter McRae, Clive Turner, Steve Lane, Robert Pringle, New Line Cinema