Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)

To me, this movie is perfection.

the audience applauded

It is a performances centric movie

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

LAWNMOWER MAN 2: BEYOND CYBERSPACE currently holds a ranking as one of the IMDb's bottom 100 films, so as you'd expect it's pretty bad. It's not the worst I've seen, not by a long shot, but it is a wasted opportunity for all involved, and it has very little to do with the first film.In fact, the only thing this really has in common is a sinister villain who lives in a virtual reality world. Unfortunately, the viewer is treated to a grinning, gurning Matt Frewer going way over the top and hamming it up as the cyber-creation. I know Frewer was an obvious choice for the role with MAX HEADROOM and everything, but his acting here stinks.The rest of the film isn't much better. The virtual reality scenes of characters flying around a fantasy world are really embarrassing and awful to behold. Patrick Bergin (ROBIN HOOD) comes in to pick up his pay cheque but tries to keep his head down for the most part. Can you blame him? Austin O'Brien (LAST ACTION HERO) is back from the original but can do nothing with a stock one-dimensional character. I can't describe the plot to you as I haven't got a clue what was meant to be going on, only that the budget was bigger than I was expecting and it still managed to be awful regardless.

The first 15 minutes or so of Lawnmowerman 2 were just utterly confusing. There is a man caught in cyberspace, an exploding building, paraplegic undergoing rehab and sudden jump to the future, all in a confused jumble. At this point I actually went online to check that I got the right movie, I was surprised to learn that I did.Once the initial confusion has settled down a bit you can get into the story proper which is only slight more watchable than the messed up intro. We have a bunch of kids in "the future" fighting against a crippled evil genius trying to control cyberspace, and all of it is clad in a super cheesy mid 90's aesthetic. It's kind of like "The Matrix" but for kids; with jargon like 'information super highway' and a dumb plot it feels both dated and inane. And it's not even cheesy enough to be funny.There is no point in commenting on acting, directing and so on, none of it matters with a film like this.

Virtual Reality never went that far. There was some people who thought that it could become like real where you can have your own world and make it your way. And then they of course had what they called cyber sex so people would think that it was a way to have free love. Now the idea of VR is just silly and that is why the lawnmower man movies where funny. Of course 1 was better then 2. I think 2 was more like a kids movie because it had a group of kids as the main caractures up against a super villain trying to take over that world how childish is that. I think it is a movie for some depressed people who probably listen to Tool way too much.

When I saw "Lawnmower Man", I thought that it was one of the most interesting movies that I'd ever seen. When I saw "Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace" a few weeks later, I couldn't understand how it was supposed to be related to the first one. Containing a plot too confusing to discuss, not only did they not bring back Pierce Brosnan, it didn't even have the decency to bring back Jeff Fahey to play Jobe - although Matt Frewer isn't a bad actor otherwise. But the rest of the movie seems to be a series of randomly strung-together special effects.So anyway, if you watch the first one, you'll have seen all that you need to; there's no reason to waste your money on this one.