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Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

markrobinson-09797 Well I first watched this movie when I was 18 in 1994 and, feeling a little nostalgic thought I'd give it another look as I remembered it being good. Most times when you've watched a movie at a younger age and re visit it its never the same and left with the feeling of 'what the hell did I see in this'. Im happy to report that this movie is still as original as I remember and still a good watch. It was never a mainstream movie and was a new concept when first released. The acting is mostly good and the music chosen fits in well with the story line. This has got to go down as one of the classics from the 90's that everyone from that period needs to see at least once.

capone666 BrainscanThe upside to murdering someone online is not having to clean up all that blood afterwards.Unfortunately, for the player in this horror movie, his victims are appearing in reality.A homebody since an accident, Michael (Edward Furlong) has become a skilled gamer eager for new challenges, which he finds in a hyper-realistic mail-order game.Egged on by the games master Trickster (T. Ryder Smith), Michael starts slaying online characters only to discover the same killings have occurred in his neighbourhood.Stranger still, Trickster has escaped the game and is ordering him to kill the girl-next-door (Amy Hargreaves).While the first person perception of the game play was ahead of its time for 1994, any prescience or innovation within this thriller is irreparably damaged by the inclusion of the irritating Trickster character.Furthermore, if video game victims started materializing there would be a ton of decapitated martial artists lying around.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Ludwig_von_Mises I love movies. Action, drama, romance, science fiction - you name it, I love it. However, horror has always held a special place in my heart. Sci fi is there to awe us with futuristic possibilities (or impossibilities, as many acquainted with actual science may say); romance is meant to make us feel happy for those two who fall in love. Horror is special, though; rather than make us feel good, we are supposed to be, well, horrified. Unfortunately, this film didn't scare me, just as few, if any, ever have. However, as a work of art (something which I think all films are), Brainscan was excellent.Dealing with a sixteen year old boy (T2's Eddie Furlong) who comes upon a video game that puts him within the eyes of a murderer, Michael experiences horror after horror when he finds himself essentially inside a truly scary horror flick. There were flaws, as there are in even the greatest of films, and many avenues which I thought could have been investigated; the film definitely would not have ended the way it had had I written in, yet it did have quite the humorous ending (in the blackest sense).I give it an 8/10 rating, and hope to see many more like it. Also, if I may offer my recommendation, be it this: eXistenZ

dwpollar 1st watched 10/14/2009 - 3 out of 10 (Dir-John Flynn): Badly executed attempt at a video game horror movie although it's an interesting concept. The storyline revolves around a disturbed kid who's obsessed with horror movies and videogames and is presented with supposedly the scariest experience available called Brainscan. He calls the company and is sent the disc without really ordering it. The game puts him in the place of a murderer and he has to kill to win the game. He wins the game but later finds out that an actual murder occurred in the neighborhood. The game with a character coming to life called Twister then taunts him to complete the rest of the volumes of the game to cover up the evidence that may lead back to him. The kid was injured as a child in an accident and lost his mother and has a dad who's rarely around(this is the tortured part of the character). The point is that he delves into the horror stuff as a way out of his real life. This is the interesting part of the movie(so I felt like I needed to include this in my review) but this isn't really explored much. The Twister character becomes a big part of the movie instead. He is a kind of rock n'roll creepy freak that is like the kid's evil side. This character isn't really done very well. There's also a side character --- a girl who he watches from his house -- that he'd like to get to know better but won't explore it. These are all things that could make a good movie, but this one is not the one. It really just becomes an average teen-enticing scarefest that could have been much better.