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Cast
- Jeff FaheyJobe Smith
- Pierce BrosnanDr. Lawrence Angelo
- Jenny WrightMarnie Burke
- Mark BringelsonSebastian Timms
- Geoffrey LewisTerry McKeen
- Jeremy SlateFather Francis McKeen
- Dean NorrisThe Director
- Colleen CoffeyCaroline Angelo
- Troy EvansLieutenant Goodwin
- Austin O'BrienPeter Parkette
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
The stunning visuals for the ‘virtual reality’ sequences really put The Lawnmower Man over. The computer animation doesn’t necessarily break new ground, but it marks the first time it has been so well integrated into a live-action story. - 63
Baltimore Sun
As a visual adventure, "The Lawnmower Man" is great fun. - 60
Empire
Although patched together from loose ends, this works surprisingly well, with interesting and well-integrated visual effects, some nice humour and a few genuinely visionary touches. - 60
Time Out London
Despite the hackneyed sub-Frankenstein plot, the dazzling computer-generated special effects almost carry the film. - 50
Austin Chronicle
It's been all the buzz on the “net” (electronic bulletin boards like CompuServe, Genie, or Prodigy) for some months now, but if as much care had been taken with the human elements -- the actors, the story -- it would have been a much better ride. After all, movies always happen in Virtual Reality. - 40
Orlando Sentinel
The Lawnmower Man has it all - melodramatic plot, bad acting, special effects that will undoubtedly seem cheesy in about five minutes and even a concluding sequence in which the usual lofty moral is voiced. - 40
The New York Times
The Lawn Mower 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. - 38
Boston Globe
Mostly plays like an artificial stupidity experiment. Zappy visuals aside, it's essentially a reactionary take on science, stemming from the movies' traditional belief that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and a lot of knowledge is worse. Think of it as Faust Goes to the Lab, with an ambitious doc serving as Mephistopheles. [6 Mar 1992, p.30]
