Benedito Dias Rodrigues Indecent...yes it's a name to special effects from bad graphic computer of this movie,could be a good sci-fi,but a lack of fertile imagination blow up the story which is very auspicious in many original scenes,if had a minimum brain behind of movie production,unfortunately they did not....Jeff Fahey and Pierce Brosnan is quite convincing in their roles,but the picture works as pastime and to burn a bad Priest,it's was a magnificent idea...beware l said bad Priest only!! Resume:First watch: 1995 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 6

Beat Priest Basically, think Flowers for Algernon crossed with TRON and a latter act taking cues from Elfen Lied, and you're somewhere on the right track. The CGI, while quite impressive at the time the film was made, hasn't really aged well. Especially Jobe's Digital Avatar, which sometimes enters the Uncanny Valley.

David Love Dr Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is working on using virtual reality in conjunction with 'neutropic drugs' to produce enhancement of intelligence. A chimpanzee on the project manages to use its new intelligence to pick the lock on his cage and kills someone before he is shot. Angelo decides he needs a human test subject. His wife, Caroline (Colleen Coffey) promptly leaves him.Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey) works for Terry McKeen (Geoffrey Lewis) mowing lawns. Jobe isn't that bright - he has been raised and abused by Father Francis McKeen (Jeremy Slate). His best friend is a young boy named Peter (Austin O'Brien) who he reads comics and plays games with. Angelo thinks Jobe would be a perfect test subject. It works and soon Jobe has changed completely. He finds a girlfriend named Marnie Burke (Jenny Wright) and becomes more assertive.However there are unforeseen side-effects as the process starts to unlock hidden psychic powers and Jobe starts to have odd episodes. Angelo's boss Sebastian Timms (Mark Bringleson) finds out what has been going on and has sinister plans for Jobe. Meanwhile Jobe has sinister plans of his own.The script is by Brett Leonard & Gimel Everett and bears little resemblance to Stephen King's novel. It is reasonably paced and well directed by Leonard. The graphics are very 1990s and you accept that. Camera-work and sound are fine if a bit Hammer Horror. Brosnan is great in his role and most other actors give passable performances.The main problem with the film is Fahey. As the lead he needs to be spectacular, as he needs to be convincing as a simpleton, a genius and ultimately a psychopath. He isn't up to it. I don't remember saying this about another film, but this is one occasion where a remake could be better than the original, if you could find the right actor.

Spikeopath The Lawnmower Man is directed by Brett Leonard who also co-writes the screenplay with Gimel Everett. It stars Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Fahey, Jenny Wright, Geoffrey Lewis, Jeremy Slate and Dean Norris. Music is by Dan Wyman and cinematography by Russell Carpenter.Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Brosnan) is a big mover in the science of virtual reality. When he tries his new technology on mentally challenged gardener Jobe Smith (Fahey), it elevates him to a higher intelligence and it's not long before Jobe acquires scary new powers…Originally meant to be, and titled as, Stephen King's Lawnmower Man, the film eventually, after a King lawsuit, ended up bearing very little resemblance to the author's short story. There's a couple of small ligaments that link the two, but in the main (not Maine) this Lawnmower Man is its own entity and an obvious attempt to cash in on the then virtual reality zeitgeist.Lawnmower Man has a cult fan base, of that there is no doubt, where much like Tron from 10 years earlier, the effects work and the capturing of something very much being "in" with the youth of the time, has proved perpetually appealing to nostalgists. But strip away these and you have your basic Frankenstein story for the 90s, a pretty standard story lacking intelligent smarts or deep thematic points of worth. And then of course there is the bizarre fact of having a film decrying the advancement of computer technology, by using computer technology to make the film's strongest moments! Hee. It's only adequately performed by the cast, and Leonard's direction matches his writing, which is mundane when not about the visual effects; effects work that dated very quickly as it happened.Other cuts and sequels would follow, the former didn't improve the same basic problems of the theatrical cut, the latter releases proved to be laughably bad. The Lawnmower Man, an interesting movie in the context of its time, and certainly fun enough for those who were there cloaked in a visually inspired warm glow, but it has not been a must see film for anyone else since 1995. 4/10