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Plot Summary
Golden Globe-nominee Pierce Brosnan ("The Matador," "Die Another Day") stars as a brilliant scientist obsessed with perfecting a revolutionary Virtual Reality computer software in this horror thriller. When Dr. Lawrence Angelo's experiments on animals fail, the scientist finds the ideal substitute: Jobe Smith, a slow-witted gardener. Dr. Angelo's goal is to benefit mankind, but when the experiment turns Jobe into an invincible war machine, the battle is on to control the mind of this superhuman being. Also starring Jeff Fahey ("Grindhouse," TV's "Lost"), Jenny Wright ("Young Guns II," "Near Dark"), Golden Globe-nominee Geoffrey Lewis ("Maverick," TV's "Flo") and Austin O'Brien ("Apollo 13," "Last Action Hero").
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
38%- Reviews Counted: 34
- Fresh: 13
- Rotten: 21
- Average Rating: 4.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: The Lawnmower Man depends mostly on a lot of colorful video-game-like special effects. They are very loud but, after a while, the noise and the lights induce a torpor that is quite soothing.
Fresh: Dazzling computer animation and special effects overcome The Lawnmower Man's mundane story.
Rotten: So loosely based on a Stephen King short story as to constitute fraud, The Lawnmower Man goes right to the bottom of a growing list of failed King adaptations.
Rotten: The Lawnmower Man echoes Frankenstein and a zillion other noble-scientist-whose-experiment-goes-awry movies.
Customer Reviews
Only Rent!
SyBoMan death edited out and that is a big disappointment!
good movie
i loved this movie when i was a kid great scifi movie rathen then a horro movie great plot i also love stephen king movies good special effect worth buying
Conceptually Brilliant Sci-fi
The lawnmower man is conceptually brilliant sci-fi whose main fault is that its 1990's movie style is not equal to its groundbreaking ideas. (Jeff, who decided on that hairstyle?) Even so, if you like sci-fi you will like and maybe even love this...
Postscript--This movie is not that old but if it were re-made with current movie tech today... wow!
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