From a retrospective POV, people are taking this movie way too seriously. Sure, it's not innovative for shite, BUT it's a great wrap up of the preceding ten years of cyberpunk-ish scifi b-movies. It's got everything you'd expect and then some. Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, Jonathan Banks, David Johansen and as the list goes on even Anthony Hopkins and Mick Jagger, not to forget Amanda Plummer as a hardass nun. I only miss Fred Williamson but then again he was more on the spaghetti side of the era. There are evil corporate overlords, impoverished people in a near post apocalyptic New York, a skyline with the evil corporate lair overshadowing the Twin Towers... Pistols that don't run out of ammo until the climatic moments, future cars that do barrel rolls and explode on impact, helmets like metal afros and uniforms of spandex and leatherette. The baddies with future energy guns aim worse than stormtroopers, there are terrible quips and a laptop with a remote controlled hinge only to deliver them... There is even CGI that is pretty sophisticated for the time and awesome cliche retro trash today. Don't watch this movie if you expect a cineast experience to write columns about, nor if you expect it to be good or even so bad it is good. But I can tell you - if this movie is for you, oh boy is it for you!

It was strange watching this movie as it is set in a future 2009 which shockingly is not like our 2009. The police wear a combo Judge Dredd/Spaceballs type suits and the world has become a kind of _Total Recall_ dichotomy of haves and have nots. The story itself had a lot of potential that was just never realized. Fascinating time travel concept that if you know the exact time and place a person dies you can snatch the body just prior in a sinister _Heaven Can Wait/The Island_ type of way to keep the rich alive. It just was missing something. Strange use of Anthony Hopkins and choice by him to take this role coming off an Academy Award winning performance in _Silence of the Lambs_. He is barely on screen for 5 minutes and by the time we reach our climax, we don't have enough invested in his character to care whether he ever leaves the "spiritual switchboard" or not.

I've never understood why this movie got to such a 'status'. Amazing list of actors; crap movie

A decent sci-fi action movie with some star power. Mick Jagger is not as bad as one might fear. Actually, he makes a decent villain for this type of movie. Generally, the movie is a bit of Robocop, a bit of Terminator and a bit of Mad Max. The story certainly asks for a bit of accepting without thinking, but it is actually not as bad as some people tend to rate it. Solid 1980s SciFit Action.

In the future, our bodies will have value.