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If you're a cyber unit and you know it clap your hands.
Date of Review: Mar 22, 2000
Mr. Douglas Hall is in big trouble. See, he's the primary suspect in the murder of his boss, software genius, Hannon Fuller. Problem is, even though his clothes from the previous night are bloodied up and there's blood in his bathroom, he doesn't remember how they got there and he certainly doesn't remember killing anybody.
The company, which he now inherits (doesn't look good at all), is in the testing phase of a revolutionary development in cyber reality. They have made a computer that will transfer the consciousness of an individual into the "body" of a cyber being in a world of their making. Specifically, Los Angeles, 1937. This world has people that eat, breath, have pets, work, think, cry, and reproduce... in short they LIVE. So, you're a person in 1937 L.A. and you're feeding your cat, then WHAMMO, somebody else has your body, and everything that other consciousness does with it for the next couple of hours is theirs to do... you have no choice and will have no memory of it.
Now, if you can create such a thing, what makes you think that you aren't just somebody else's creation? Certainly the technology would be there, by virtue of the fact that it was the same technology with which you were created.
This movie asks some very interesting questions. It's very Twilight Zone-esque in its answers. The performances are decent and the script is ok, too. There was nothing really spectacular to it, save the after movie discussions. Now, THOSE are great!
