I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Blistering performances.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The premise of this film--almost certainly a failed pilot*--is very, very clever. Greedy industrialists devise the ultimate marketing device--no fast-forwarding, no trips to the kitchen--in our brains. It was the perfect place for a clever satire on the insanity of Madison Avenue. Unfortunately it promptly degenerates into a threadbare revenge saga with all the standard plot devices of such genres.A pity because it had the promise of something much, much better.Brad Kilmer looks deranged. What's with his hair? Has anyone made more bad films than Cuba Gooding? *No movie movie introduces a well-known character actor mug--Lance Henriksen--at the end of a movie unless it's the pilot of a TV series.

Here we have a movie made for TV. It's cheap, it's boring, and it's bad. Not even the good actors here can make it any good. In fact, they seem to be acting bad themselves! I actually didn't have the will to watch the whole thing in one go, and had to leave half of it for next day. I hate to be interrupted when watching a movie, so you can imagine how terrible this piece is. As for the cyberpunk part... Let's see... You know when you have these consoles full of bright lights and monitors with all kind of signs that don't tell anything? When someone seems to be just pressing random keys on the keyboard while trying to look like he's doing something serious? That's Hardwired for you. I really dislike those extra buttons added to a piece of hardware to make it look more "futuristic" or having a lot of useless, meaningless characters on someone's range of vision pretending to be very "hi-tech". There's not even atmosphere here. The music doesn't suit and it doesn't give any feeling. You know what I thought when watching this? Nirvana. It's like this film is trying to be Nirvana. I love that film. It wasn't a big budget production but it got something: atmosphere. And you felt like you were actually watching a cyberpunk film, immersed in it. Hardwired is more like a bad Twilight Zone episode. The plot could have saved some of this fiasco. However, as it happens so many times, it doesn't develop enough to make the movie worth it.

Mediocre acting, ponderous political pandering, and the total implausibility of the plot execution finally overcame the desire to seek entertainment value or insight in this clunker. We are supposed to believe that the CEO of the world's largest corporation spends his time watching some guy walking around on the streets. This is like a movie about Bill Gates watching somebody's home computer crash and cackle about it.Evil corporations control the world now. We can tell because they have hologrammed commercials erupting out of every building and national landmark in sight. This is a movie element designed to appeal to five year olds with paranoia and dementia. Yeah, we get it. Pass ObamaCare or else heartless corporations will scoop people off the streets who have been in car wrecks and upon finding them uninsured, pop a microchip the size of an ipod into their heads and harass them into buying watches. Got it.This doesn't qualify as science fiction, it is somebody's private delusion made into a movie. No doubt by an evil corporation.

Bladerunner meets Matrix meets any film with a new surgical procedure meets...Highly unoriginal film thats a bit too in love with the world its created about a man who is given a new implant by one of the many corporations that now run the world. He soon finds himself on the run being helped by a group of hackers who are trying to free the world...or something.Well made but poorly written (and costumed, I mean pink hair?) film steals from a good number of other and better films and puts them all in a blender to make a tasteless puree. Its the sort of film that never seems like it self, rather you're constantly picking out where you've seen this bit before. It makes for tired viewing.I'm at a loss to understand why Cuba Gooding seems to be in a steady stream of low rent films. Certainly they are giving him a chance to be the star, and he's occasionally made a film that is much better than you think it is, but mostly one ends up wondering g if he has any sense in what he chooses. Certainly he's good in what ever he does, but the films often aren't.Count this as one of the Cuba Gooding films that makes you scratch your head.