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The Lawnmower Man

1992
Sci-fi
Suspense/Thriller
1h 48m
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science. (imdb)
Directed by:
Brett Leonard
Written by:
Brett Leonard Stephen King Stephen King
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Starring:
Pierce Brosnan Pierce Brosnan Jeff Fahey Jeff Fahey Geoffrey Lewis Geoffrey Lewis Austin O\ Austin O'Brien Jeremy Slate Jeremy Slate Jenny Wright Jenny Wright Mark Bringelson Troy Evans Troy Evans Colleen Coffey Jim Landis Rosalee Mayeux Dean Norris Dean Norris
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Franchise:
The Lawnmower Man
Genres:
Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller, Action, Horror
Countries:
Japan, UK, USA
Language:
English
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The Lawnmower Man

1992
Sci-fi
Suspense/Thriller
1h 48m
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bofbof
Rated 15 Jan 2017
30
8th
Everyone got this movie wrong. It's not about how virtual reality turns a "simple man" into a genius; it's about how the second you give a stupid white kid internet access, he turns into a psychopath who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. In part 3, he joins 4chan.
Rated 15 Jan 2017
paxtonPaxton
Rated 14 Jan 2015
59
36th
For the record, and for the last time, yes, I did mow lawns growing up, and, yes, I did have an older handsome gentleman take an interest in me. Maybe at one point he did hook me up to an electronic device. But that is exactly where the comparisons end.
Rated 14 Jan 2015
davidblastDavidBlast
Rated 10 Oct 2011
40
28th
I don't know what bastard took this great movie from my childhood, and replaced it with what I just saw, but I want you to know that you're the lowest of the low: Swapping great effects with tacky 'early CGI' is one thing, but your version is straight-to-tv schlock, not the eyeopening, mindbending, thought provoking science fiction epic, I saw when I was 12. Whoever you are you've sweeded part of my childhood, you fucker. I'll find you. Oh yes I will.
Rated 10 Oct 2011
billyshearsBillyShears
Rated 01 Sep 2008
30
6th
"Hey guys lets take this King short story about a retarded goatman guy who eats grass and is all ghoulish into this Of Mice and Men for the next generation" ;)
Rated 01 Sep 2008
indyatmnINDYATMN
Rated 04 Feb 2021
74
36th
The '92 desktop CGI is obviously very dated now & there are a couple of laughable moments (Jobe bringing the lawnmower w/ him for an attack & being uber-powerful but still needing a ride), but story-wise it's watchable. Anyone who read Flowers for Algernon can see where things are going, but Jobe is usually sympathetic rather than evil & the scene where he turns into a virtual bipedal vagina/penis for his lover is genuinely surprising & even Cronenbergian. Great ending 2. Not bad for the time.
Rated 04 Feb 2021
tonytheponyTonythePony
Rated 13 Apr 2010
15
1st
I blame this crap movie for single-handedly destroying virtual-reality development. I should have been nailing cyber-chicks and learning shit by subliminal flashy images by now. Get cracking techies! And if you have to sacrifice a few guys who struggle to tie their shoes, I'll look the other way.
Rated 13 Apr 2010
glumpy99glumpy_99
Rated 22 Jan 2020
53
12th
Strange, oddly sordid mess is watchable throughout (it's fun to see Norris as an oily 80s villain) but an intriguing story idea is botched by too many silly digressions (the DA VINCI style flagellations, Fahey's sexual prowess) and general confusion and incoherency in the storytelling. A reminder that Brosnan didn't become Brosnan until Bond; while the film has its charms as a reminder of the TVM level of production that could pass as cinema fare in the early 90s, it is not essential viewing.
Rated 22 Jan 2020
fudgiebfudgieb
Rated 14 Aug 2007
67
25th
The whole virtual reality thing never really panned out.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
nobambanobamba
Rated 20 Apr 2021
30
15th
Theatrical cut. Um...okay. So a movie about a murderous lawnmower could probably carry a feature length, but how about we make it a sci-fi about VR instead and make the lawnmower controlled by the guy from Dumb and Dumber? Plus make the plot boring. No wonder Stephen King demanded his name get taken off. The VR is actually cool for the time and as retro art, since I remember all that stuff was supposed to be the future. Alas, technology limitations. Fav scene: lawnmower kill.
Rated 20 Apr 2021
burnmp3sburnmp3s
Rated 06 Sep 2009
12
3rd
An unrelentingly stupid film. When the genius scientist character mentions that it took him a year to learn the Latin alphabet, it makes you wonder if maybe science fiction may not have been the best fit for the writer.
Rated 06 Sep 2009
fatchrisbFatchrisb
Rated 11 Mar 2018
51
11th
Narrowly walking the line of being "just" entertaining enough to finish watching.
Rated 11 Mar 2018
astrakhanastrakhan
Rated 30 Nov 2014
58
5th
Pierce Brosnan goes head-to-head with Billy Zane in perhaps the most nonsensical attempt at a sci-fi mindfuck movie ever filmed.
Rated 30 Nov 2014
askailAskail
Rated 14 Aug 2007
79
85th
I do not know how closely it follows the book, but on it's own a very good movie. Of course the special effects were bad with such a small budget but anyone can forgive that.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
grimace98grimace98
Rated 29 Jul 2007
60
59th
A movie unfairly dated by its SFX.
Rated 29 Jul 2007
coheedCoheed
Rated 17 May 2011
40
14th
I completely understand Stephen King taking his name off this but at the same time, his work has been adapted into far more worse films (he takes his name off this, but not the god-awful Sleepwalkers?). It's a generic sci-fi film, no way near as bad as its reputation suggests except for the badly dated CGI; to be honest though, said CGI is the only real virtue to the film, dated to the point it is an unintentionally surreal flourish and still more visually striking than most CGI today.
Rated 17 May 2011
cinemaasiaCinema_Asia
Rated 21 Feb 2010
45
7th
Pretty terrible all around and the early 90's CG is hilarious.
Rated 21 Feb 2010
okkervilOkkervil
Rated 01 Aug 2009
7
6th
God this film is a turd.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
cpreviewcpreview
Rated 05 Aug 2012
5
28th
Lawnmower man is an early entree into 3D graphics. The graphics were rather decent at the time but certainly looks dated now. It's still a nice scifi thriller that fully qualifies as a cyberpunk movie in every way possible. I enjoy this, and generally like Brosnan movies, but maybe its just a guilty pleasure of mine.
Rated 05 Aug 2012
thedicemanTheDiceman
Rated 24 Feb 2007
35
13th
Poor.
Rated 24 Feb 2007
fuzzixfuzzix
Rated 12 Jan 2008
50
34th
This cyber thriller has not aged well
Rated 12 Jan 2008
shmendrekShmendrek
Rated 21 Feb 2010
1
10th
There is so much wrong with this that I'll just pick a random complaint off the list: why would Jobe forfeit control over the physical world (where he's almost a demigod) to gain control over TELEPHONES? I guess he wanted God-like prank calling powers or something. Now take my incredulity over this single plot point and multiply it by the number of minutes in the film, and you have a rough approximation of my dislike for The Lawnmower Man.
Rated 21 Feb 2010
weaselgreaseWeaselgrease
Rated 18 Mar 2010
88
45th
For the time and the message, this was an interesting film to see. At this point, however, the technology used for the movie is very old. This was one of the first films to birth 3D animation into film.
Rated 18 Mar 2010
lachapellelachapelle
Rated 14 Aug 2007
69
31st
As Stephen King adaptations go, this is a decent movie. Pierce Brosnan and Jeff Fahey are both quite good. The movie does mess with your brain a little bit in that typical King way. Unfortunately, the technology severely dates the movie but it's still enjoyable.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
superfoxsuperfox
Rated 28 Apr 2008
65
22nd
it's a bad vision about the internet.
Rated 28 Apr 2008
peeweePeewee
Rated 14 Oct 2008
88
52nd
so cooool.
Rated 14 Oct 2008
sopachuco13sopachuco13
Rated 13 Aug 2022
60
17th
The Lawnmower Man was better than I remember it being. It has all that cool early 90's cyber technology. The premise is pretty interesting with an addendum that it might not be the most sensitive movie by today's standards. The characters of Jobe and Dr. Angelo are complicated characters who develop in different ways throughout the film. It's a movie that I could see myself enjoying again but it's probably not for everyone. I liked the open-endedness of the ending.
Rated 13 Aug 2022
thedenizenTheDenizen
Rated 14 Aug 2007
35
14th
Really dumb and badly dated.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
simhoopsimhoop
Rated 03 Jul 2023
30
7th
The first half of the movie is embarrassingly bad while the second half is just kind of generic. I somehow convinced myself this would be cool when I was a kid and saw it in the theater - I'm sure it was for the fantastic (at the time) graphics.
Rated 03 Jul 2023
videoetronVideoetron
Rated 11 Feb 2023
55
18th
The plot is one often seen later on in scifi tv shows, but one could have looked past it. The monkey part was dumb. The beginning of the test on humans was mildly interesting in part due to the star power. But the moment more CGI gets involved in the "real world" then it's all downhill into shitty stupidity territory, with a strained and cliché doomsday threat
Rated 11 Feb 2023
overratedoverrated
Rated 27 Jan 2023
29
20th
This is a very generous score, mostly because the virtual world segments nostalgically reminded me of watching ReBoot as a kid.
Rated 27 Jan 2023
k57k57
Rated 12 Dec 2006
10
2nd
Crapmower.
Rated 12 Dec 2006
hellboy76hellboy76
Rated 25 Sep 2010
48
15th
I think I saw this in the theater. I don't know why.
Rated 25 Sep 2010
muutanetmuutanet
Rated 06 Feb 2008
18
14th
A couple of cool animation.
Rated 06 Feb 2008
mardikmartinmardikmartin
Rated 21 Jul 2015
20
17th
>->-o
Rated 21 Jul 2015
redeyedtissRedeyedtiss
Rated 09 Sep 2010
76
46th
weird
Rated 09 Sep 2010
ununniliumUnunnilium
Rated 23 Oct 2021
32
18th
The first fifteen minutes are cheesy fun, the last half-hour is super cheesy fun, the hour and a half in the middle is terrible boring dull drama. And like, terrible engagements with intellectual disability are expected in this Flowers for Algernon shit, but the film cavalierly throws in child abuse, religious abuse, and a lot of other uncomfortable stuff with no sense of the weight it's playing with. Are the cheese parts worth the terrible bits? That's up to you, O viewer.
Rated 23 Oct 2021
badcosmonautBadCosmonaut
Rated 24 Aug 2022
2
6th
Score is for 2h 20m Director's Cut.
Rated 24 Aug 2022
hotsakehotsake
Rated 11 Jul 2012
68
69th
When I saw the previews and heard it was from a Stephen King story I really wanted to see it, then I did and man was I underwhelmed. The movie was pretty good up until the end where it took a big shit on the rest of the movie. Sometime afterwards I read the mildly entertaining Stephen King story and I thought to my self how the fuck did they come up with that movie from this story?
Rated 11 Jul 2012
tripleshTripleSH
Rated 14 Aug 2007
11
6th
How they derived this botched abortion of a movie from the short story is one of the unsolved mysteries that haunts humanity to this very day.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
squidgetsquidget
Rated 21 Aug 2007
83
59th
This was a favorite of mine when I saw it has a child. I watched it again the other night and it doesn't hold up as well anymore.
Rated 21 Aug 2007
kingjohnbbqKingjohnbbq
Rated 24 Jan 2014
30
3rd
When I was young, I saw this movie and was amazed at how crazy it was and the cool effects. base on this I even bought the movie knowing it would be campy but still awesome as I had remembered it. I was so wrong. This is such a bad movie. The acting is godawful. The CGI is painful, not even funny, just embarrassing. I feel bad for the person who made this.
Rated 24 Jan 2014
sourheartsourheart
Rated 23 Apr 2019
3
36th
I would rather culture made this
Rated 23 Apr 2019
redactedredacted
Rated 30 Aug 2014
26
7th
First up, I'd like to point out this film is a Bond maker. 2nd, this has Shrader from BB playing a smarmy Brit. Third, Fahey & Leonard's idea for establishing a mentally challenged guy was a bit of divine flagellation, mong dialogue & ramming a tongue in behind the lips. Finally, this film raised the question..Gilbert Grape, Rainman, Lawnmower Man..I can't remember any films set around women in a similar role
Rated 30 Aug 2014
evilmangoesEvilMangoes
Rated 14 Jul 2018
26
13th
D
Rated 14 Jul 2018
altulsterAltUlster
Rated 03 Feb 2009
32
33rd
One of the few times where the videogame is worse than the movie.
Rated 03 Feb 2009
brrrpbrrrp
Rated 19 Feb 2024
70
63rd
I don't know what dank hole this crawled out of. I don't think it was even made by humans? Probably from a different dimension even. Anyway. Hell of a B movie; an audacious and terrible madness.
Rated 19 Feb 2024
talonmalontalonmalon
Rated 23 Aug 2013
39
10th
A pretty creative movie with a solid performance by Jeff Fahey.
Rated 23 Aug 2013
noisebloomnoisebloom
Rated 17 Jul 2022
19
2nd
Cringey effects aside, The Lawnmower Man is an absolute disaster of a narrative, providing no proper arc for its characters and a laughably terrible script.
Rated 17 Jul 2022
hunterkingHunterKing
Rated 05 Nov 2007
64
18th
Pretty average movie with awesomely terrible 3d effects and cyberbabble.
Rated 05 Nov 2007
stainStain
Rated 30 Mar 2007
40
23rd
Stupidest depiction of virtual reality ever
Rated 30 Mar 2007
seryxaSeryxa
Rated 10 Apr 2009
25
43rd
Some impressive special effects, simulating 'virtual reality' -- a computer-created world -- enliven an otherwise drab and predictable science fiction movie.
Rated 10 Apr 2009
dunbardunbar
Rated 15 Sep 2010
40
8th
A flying lawnmower is one of the more realistic aspects of this movie. A warning for how CGI will date with many a movie.
Rated 15 Sep 2010
stflyst_fly
Rated 22 Aug 2007
60
55th
Good
Rated 22 Aug 2007
li0lili0li
Rated 22 Nov 2022
30
8th
Should've been like half as long or less.
Rated 22 Nov 2022
doctor7doctor7
Rated 08 Dec 2007
12
6th
A mediocre movie at it's release. It has aged horribly. Not just in terms of special effects but the entire ludicrous concept as well.
Rated 08 Dec 2007
kendramillerkendramiller
Rated 10 Aug 2008
86
17th
don't remember this movie too much....is that good or bad?
Rated 10 Aug 2008
juicejuice
Rated 26 May 2007
50
36th
Was good when I was a kid, shit now.
Rated 26 May 2007
calhardingcalharding
Rated 16 Jul 2008
66
35th
No holds barred sci-fi with professional creepy guy Jeff Fahey really capturing power-drunk Jobe. Sadly, the film is mostly notable for spawning one of the worst sequels in all of history.
Rated 16 Jul 2008
prisonerPrisoner
Rated 18 Aug 2007
55
16th
Not particularly good. Meh.
Rated 18 Aug 2007
mojojoestarMojoJoestar
Rated 21 Jan 2023
55
17th
While this isn't a good film, it's a very entertaining one. And I'm certain it's inspired more things we consume in the present than anyone is really willing to admit.
Rated 21 Jan 2023
freqflyerfreqflyer
Rated 08 Dec 2009
80
55th
I remember liking this when it came out, although I'm sure time has not been kind to its special effects.
Rated 08 Dec 2009
lady_moeLady Moe
Rated 22 Oct 2014
42
7th
Have no clue what to say. It's weird, but not really int he good or interesting way.
Rated 22 Oct 2014
irvinejumpirvinejump
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
61st
I love the graphics, but the story's only so so
Rated 14 Aug 2007
baskilbaskil
Rated 14 Aug 2007
87
59th
A bit aged, but still good.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
hisblobhisblob
Rated 08 May 2017
28
17th
on par with The Room
Rated 08 May 2017
bojanpopicbojanpopic
Rated 24 Feb 2008
51
21st
I loved this movie when I first saw it. But now...
Rated 24 Feb 2008
warrensmwarrensm
Rated 27 Oct 2021
28
18th
It's a hot mess, but it's also a fun hot mess.
Rated 27 Oct 2021
hojohojo
Rated 12 Dec 2006
75
42nd
All I remember is that it was all right.
Rated 12 Dec 2006
spamhead80spamhead80
Rated 22 Mar 2008
62
20th
I liked this better when it was a King short story.
Rated 22 Mar 2008
vandelay1Vandelay1
Rated 18 Apr 2009
48
49th
Was Good When Younger
Rated 18 Apr 2009
moribunnyMoribunny
Rated 30 Dec 2006
10
5th
Bloody awful!
Rated 30 Dec 2006
ribcageribcage
Rated 14 Mar 2013
43
18th
It starts out pretty good, but after Pierce Brosnan's name disappears from the opening credits, it's all downhill from there.
Rated 14 Mar 2013
geodaciusGeodacius
Rated 04 Jan 2008
65
32nd
worth watching.
Rated 04 Jan 2008
lonercmlonercm
Rated 05 Mar 2007
30
16th
Good concept, crappy execution. The "Virtual" scenes and other effects were laughable even by early '90s standards. The eternally underrated Jeff Fahey does fine, though.
Rated 05 Mar 2007
matthias99Matthias99
Rated 13 Jul 2007
75
18th
Not really that good.
Rated 13 Jul 2007
muzicaddictmuzicaddict
Rated 28 Feb 2008
50
8th
A horribly dated and nonsensical twist on Flowers for Algernon.
Rated 28 Feb 2008
antagonAntagon
Rated 20 May 2009
40
8th
Did not age well
Rated 20 May 2009
tvfilm_hubTV+Film-Hub
Rated 31 Jan 2010
0
3rd
Couldn't even start it it was so retarded. And not that a retard was the hero, but the plot was so trite, cliche, and retarded.
Rated 31 Jan 2010
alexbrissonAlexBrisson
Rated 04 Jan 2022
55
15th
For better or worse, this movie is one-of-a-kind. There is wall-to-wall wacky shit happening, so it’s hard call out the absurdity of any one moment (though the horrible CG monster at the end jumps to mind). The Lawnmower man becoming hyper-intelligent plot and the virtual reality plot feel like they should be two separate films, especially since it’s unclear how VR is making him more intelligent. A total goofy mess, but not one that I will soon forget!
Rated 04 Jan 2022
difontaineDifontaine
Rated 24 Jan 2007
32
5th
Bobbins
Rated 24 Jan 2007
spookymaskSpookyMask
Rated 22 Dec 2008
20
1st
I liked it when the ugly blond and the retard had sex. Plus 15 for that!
Rated 22 Dec 2008
fyngyrzfyngyrz
Rated 26 Sep 2007
5
6th
Awful.
Rated 26 Sep 2007
dustydDustyd
Rated 16 Sep 2007
60
39th
stupid, but kinda cool
Rated 16 Sep 2007

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