The film starts with an over optimistic view of virtual reality, but then it was made in 1992, and then plunges into a story about how VR can ramp up a person's intelligence, the person being the titular Lawnmower Man (he mows lawns) called Jobe. He does grow smarter and eventually wants to take over the world. As you do. It's a blend of 'Flowers For Algernon' and a revenge story that doesn't really work. There are good performances however from Jeff Fahey as Jobe, Pierce Brosnan as the tinkering scientist and Geoffrey Lewis as Jobe's easy going employer. The VR sequences themselves are colourful, being the best CGI they could do then, but they do look primitive now.
Review of The Lawnmower Man
