Runaway (1984)

Runaway (1984)

In the near future, when robots do most daily chores, and often break down and damage people and property, Sergeant Jack Ramsay (Tom Selleck) is in charge of shutting down “runaways.”  With his new partner, Karen (Cynthia Rhodes), he stumbles upon a scheme by madman Dr. Charles Luther (Gene Simmons) to turn robots into killing

Samurais (2002)

Samurais (2002)

Five hundred years ago, a samurai summoned the demon Kodeni (Santi Sudaros) to save his clan, but afterwards, the demon entered his daughter to be born as a superhuman. Now, Kodeni needs a new body, so chooses Akemi (Maï Anh Le), the daughter of Commissioner Fujiwara (Yasuaki Kurata) to be his mother. Fujiwara is visited by the

Strange Days (1995)

Strange Days (1995)

Ex-cop Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) is a street dealer of the newest illegal drug, human memory tapes.  He’s also a user, escaping into his past when he was with punk rocker Faith Justin (Juliette Lewis).  As society crumbles around him, he is given a tape of a psychotic killer raping and murdering an old friend

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) has created a virtual reality world too well. The computer generated people in it think, feel, and care.  Fuller, who has been entering the “simulation” to enjoy the highlife, leaves a note for his friend and employee, Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko), with a VR bartender, and then is murdered in the real

Total Recall (1990)

Total Recall (1990)

Bored Construction worker Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) wants something more in life, but his wife (Sharon Stone) is happy as things are.  So he has the artificial memories company, ReKall, implant a virtual vacation to Mars, complete with the memory of him being a secret agent.  But things go wrong as it appears all of

Universal Soldier (1992)

Universal Soldier (1992)

The government resurrects Vietnam-era soldiers as cyborgs for dangerous missions.  However, their memories are not completely wiped and two of the ‘Unisols’ begin reliving the past, where one was a psychotic killer (Dolph Lundgren), and the other a hero (Jean-Claude Van Damme). Quick Review: If you are going to make a robot out of a

Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)

Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)

A sequel to 1992’s Universal Soldier, ex-cyborg soldier, Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), must stop the next generation of powerful “Unisols” and the renegade computer (Michael Jai White) that leads them. Stating my bias clearly: there are no good Van Damme movies.  But a few of them don’t completely suck.  A few are fun.  This

WarGames (1983)

WarGames (1983)

David Lightman (Matthew Broderick), a high school underachiever, accidentally hacks into NORAD and challenges the computer to a game of Global Thermonuclear War.  The problem is, the computer doesn’t differentiate between a game and the real thing, and it now controls the U.S. nuclear arsenal. I recalled liking WarGames on the big screen back in