From a retrospective POV, people are taking this movie way too seriously. Sure, it's not innovative for shite, BUT it's a great wrap up of the preceding ten years of cyberpunk-ish scifi b-movies. It's got everything you'd expect and then some. Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, Jonathan Banks, David Johansen and as the list goes on even Anthony Hopkins and Mick Jagger, not to forget Amanda Plummer as a hardass nun. I only miss Fred Williamson but then again he was more on the spaghetti side of the era. There are evil corporate overlords, impoverished people in a near post apocalyptic New York, a skyline with the evil corporate lair overshadowing the Twin Towers... Pistols that don't run out of ammo until the climatic moments, future cars that do barrel rolls and explode on impact, helmets like metal afros and uniforms of spandex and leatherette. The baddies with future energy guns aim worse than stormtroopers, there are terrible quips and a laptop with a remote controlled hinge only to deliver them... There is even CGI that is pretty sophisticated for the time and awesome cliche retro trash today.

Don't watch this movie if you expect a cineast experience to write columns about, nor if you expect it to be good or even so bad it is good. But I can tell you - if this movie is for you, oh boy is it for you!