The plot concept for this film is a really good one. Paul's friend Sam has just died tragically. Her brain is dead, and Paul is left behind with a crazy idea on his mind.
Paul: What if I just use a computer chip as a pacemaker for her brain?
Paul, being a wiz with computers and studying to become a doctor, puts the twisted plan into motion and steals Sam's body from the hospital and then implants a chip that is meant to act like a connector from her brain to her spinal cord. The plan actually works and Sam is brought back from the dead, and then the real problems start.
Now, this may seem like a cheesy plot idea to some, but to me it sounds like an inventive remake of Frankenstein. The idea of this dead girl walking around and Paul trying to keep it all under control is a good one and could of made for a sweet, interesting little film, but the idea was destroyed by BB! What is BB? BB is the little robot that Paul got the computer chip from. BB was an annoying character before Paul slapped his microchip into Sam's head. It just rolled around screaming out BB, which gets really annoying very quickly, and it was ridicules how strong BB was. Like they really made him over the top and he comes off as a cartoon character.
But, even after BB is out of the picture he still wrecks the film. Instead of Sam having her own mind when she comes back from the dead, she now has BB's mind. Going with the mythosis that the film has created this makes no sense at all. The chip that was stuck inside Sam wasn't really BB's mind. It was the electric wire that tied up his mind so he could function. It should have acted the same way inside of her head. Why she suddenly starts moving around and acting like BB I will never know. It just doesn't fit. On top of that she suddenly has supper human strength without any explanation. This is a film that can't fallow its own rules and to top off the BB stupidity a jazzed up song all about BB is played at the end causing you to want to cover your ears to block out the beat.
This film was made by the one and only Wes Craven. The man that created Freddy Kruger, the Scream series, and an odd little cheesy gem known as Cursed. Granted, some don't like Cursed, but it was cheesy and fun, this however is not. Wes tries very hard at times to recreate A Nightmare On Elm Street with this film. There is even a dream scene with a burned up man jumping out of a bed. But, Wes comes up short. For such an intelligent plot concept the film is to b-movie for its own good. From the cartoonish BB to a killer basketball, it all just gets on your nerves. Hey, even the name of the film is lame. I should have seen this one coming.
As we all know it's remake time and anything and everything is being redone. This is one of the few films that I think should be remade. It could have been so much better.
5 out of 10: It had a lot of potential.
Paul: What if I just use a computer chip as a pacemaker for her brain?
Paul, being a wiz with computers and studying to become a doctor, puts the twisted plan into motion and steals Sam's body from the hospital and then implants a chip that is meant to act like a connector from her brain to her spinal cord. The plan actually works and Sam is brought back from the dead, and then the real problems start.
Now, this may seem like a cheesy plot idea to some, but to me it sounds like an inventive remake of Frankenstein. The idea of this dead girl walking around and Paul trying to keep it all under control is a good one and could of made for a sweet, interesting little film, but the idea was destroyed by BB! What is BB? BB is the little robot that Paul got the computer chip from. BB was an annoying character before Paul slapped his microchip into Sam's head. It just rolled around screaming out BB, which gets really annoying very quickly, and it was ridicules how strong BB was. Like they really made him over the top and he comes off as a cartoon character.
But, even after BB is out of the picture he still wrecks the film. Instead of Sam having her own mind when she comes back from the dead, she now has BB's mind. Going with the mythosis that the film has created this makes no sense at all. The chip that was stuck inside Sam wasn't really BB's mind. It was the electric wire that tied up his mind so he could function. It should have acted the same way inside of her head. Why she suddenly starts moving around and acting like BB I will never know. It just doesn't fit. On top of that she suddenly has supper human strength without any explanation. This is a film that can't fallow its own rules and to top off the BB stupidity a jazzed up song all about BB is played at the end causing you to want to cover your ears to block out the beat.
This film was made by the one and only Wes Craven. The man that created Freddy Kruger, the Scream series, and an odd little cheesy gem known as Cursed. Granted, some don't like Cursed, but it was cheesy and fun, this however is not. Wes tries very hard at times to recreate A Nightmare On Elm Street with this film. There is even a dream scene with a burned up man jumping out of a bed. But, Wes comes up short. For such an intelligent plot concept the film is to b-movie for its own good. From the cartoonish BB to a killer basketball, it all just gets on your nerves. Hey, even the name of the film is lame. I should have seen this one coming.
As we all know it's remake time and anything and everything is being redone. This is one of the few films that I think should be remade. It could have been so much better.
5 out of 10: It had a lot of potential.