VampyreMike

I picked this up recently at the dollar store, I thought my wife would like it as it looked like a Hallmark film.

It sort of does, but also misses the mark a little. The main plot of the story is a bakery owner entering a contest for a money prize for making the best pumpkin dessert in Morton, Illinois. Which after watching this and looking it up, is considered the pumpkin capital.

Throw in some friends who fall in love and religious overtones and you have this movie. Decent, cute, but not something my wife would watch again.

While trying to track down Cyberpunk movies I hadn't seen years ago, I ran across Nirvana. Being a Christopher Lambert fan I was surprised I hadn't heard of it.

The main plot of the story is that Christopher Lambert is in a state of depression sure to his wife leaving to "find herself" so to speak. Meanwhile his most recent video game creation has become self aware and wants to be deleted.

The two stories interweave as Lambert goes on an adventure and meets other "Angels", normally known as hackers, who fly through cyberspace committing crimes and such to make ends meet.

There's nothing like the 90's setting for a cyberpunk film, it has a nice layer of cheese to it, but also just feels right. There is also some spiritual and religious overtones in this film about seeking Nirvana for yourself, just as Christopher Lambert is trying to achieve.

This has become one of my favorite sci Fi films and I'm hopeful one day it gets a Blu ray. Currently you can buy an American version with slightly goofy dubs that add to the cheese factor. Or you can get the region free Italian DVD which is longer and adds some more runtime to the film.

Whichever version you decide he you watch, I highly recommend this film for Cyberpunk fans. Make sure to watch it in the winter, as I feel it enhances the setting.

The story starts out with Corey Haim being drugged and his wife being kidnapped. It get's a little wonky when Corey hires a PI to find his wife and he accompanies said PI all around town following clues. It's pretty interesting, but I never understood how both Corey and the PI were so far ahead of the cops that the police had even left clues at the initial scene of the crime. Both Corey and the PI sort of work through their initial angst with one another, and their own personal problems as well. They eventually become a quasi-buddy team. Which was sort of cool to watch. However without spoiling anything, the ending threw me for a loop. It went from dark and sort of a murder thriller, to being more of a underhanded business film. It was decent, worth a rental but not really a purchase. I was a big Corey Haim fan and it was cool to see him work in a newish film, he looked sort of tired in some scenes. But I guess that was due to the being drugged and his wife being taken? I would hope so.

Grade Rating: C-