ThiefHott Too much of everything

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

bobconstans Hardwired is like a (bad) Max Headroom fanfic RoboCop ripoff - including trying to make it look like it was made back then, except the production values don't look as good. It might have worked as a parody sketch if they'd kept it under 10 minutes. The special effects are particularly unbelievable. Throughout I kept feeling it was more like a Made-For-TV Movie, and with the ending more appropriate to a TV Pilot, it makes me wonder. It's not even so-bad-it's-funny, merely pathetic, so avoid this even for Schlock B-Movie nights.I'm fairly generous with my Ratings, so 3 might be high.

NateWatchesCoolMovies May 29 at 8:25pm · Instagram · The first IMDb review to pop up when you look up Hardwired has the log line "wtf?", which just about sums up the movie. It's straight up cow dung, a stunningly bad attempt to emulate everything from Blade Runner to Minority Report, failing in all imaginable ways. It does, however, possess a few deranged qualities which are worth a look purely for your own mirth and amusement. Let's start with Val Kilmer's hairdo. He sports a getup that looks as if someone threw the head of a mop into a wheat thresher, put it on his head and tried to style it like an emo anime character. It's baffling, shocking and the hairpiece gives a better performance than the former Bruce Wayne sitting beneath it. Now,here's the curious thing: on the DVD cover, Kilmer has a garden variety haircut, with no trace of the horror to come once you hit play. This makes not a bit of sense to me; if I were the filmmaker and it was my movie and I'd chosen that epic Goku hairdo for Kilmer, let alone get him to agree to it, I'd advertise it loud and proud, and put his image like nine different times all over the cover art. It's ironic that a film about excessive commercialism is guilty of false advertising, but there you have it. Anywho, Kilmer and the hair play Virgil Killiger, a whacky PR manager of a mega corporation whose main revenue comes from serial advertising, in a half assed future where society has reached the oft imagined 1984 dystopia. He's tasked with harassing Luke Gibson (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a man who owes a heavy debt to the company due to their products saving his life following an accident. Only problem is, it doesn't end there. The corporation gets greedy and tries to insinuate itself into every aspect of people's lives. Gooding bands together with a group of cyberpunk hackers led by Michael Ironside, and together attempt to bring down the company once and for all. It's al big dumb dumb of a flick that doesn't even put a modicum of effort in most of the time. Lance Henriksen fans beware: despite a credit, he's not even in the thing, except for a single recycled photograph which sets the film up for sequels that I will bet my left testicle will never get made.

jmart99101 This is a very decent Sci-fi movie with an average budget. If you like philip K dick type movies and have time to kill on the rainy day, you will enjoy this movie. It is in the same vein of Total Recall, Impostor, Paycheck, etc. But not as good as any of them. It deals with paranoia, evil corporation, big brother, etc. The instance where you notice the lower budget is really with the direction. There seem to be very few camera angles for every scenes. Otherwise, its a pretty descent offering for a Sci-fi movie. When you have seen everything else including some monster/disaster Sci-fi channel original movie. This one comes out as a pretty good surprise considering the rating of it at the IMDb. A good way to pass time for Sci-fi fans.

dbborroughs 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.