Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Excellent but underrated film

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

I watched the movie on 160 FUSE cable TV may 2016 and I actually enjoyed the movie. It has action, drama, tragedy and more. It is not of course Gooding's best work, but he does justice to the material. I am 3/4 of the way through the movie as I am writing review so do not have the ending but I am sure Cuba will exact his revenge for his loss of his wife, child and memory. He knows his story but not sure if he has actual memories of it yet. I am just now seeing the history of the assassin sent after Gooding and his personal reasons beyond his contract to kill Gooding, assassin blames him for his wifes death from what I understand so far. Not sure of the why or how yet.

I didn't think the movie "Hardwired" was as bad as a 4. But it isn't the greatest either. Gooding's character Luke is played well as a distraught man trying to figure out what has happened to him and who is responsible. He really is the best part of the movie. On the other hand, Kilmer is always good for a crazy man, unfortunately I think Kilmer's character is strongly underplayed in this movie. Is he a crazy person? Or is he just a middle man with no heart? I don't know. I would of enjoyed it had he played with more psychotic emotion. The man responsible for Hope Corp. might as well been Kilmer's character. Did they actually pay the guy who was Mr. Hope? For the person responsible for the bases of this movie, he really didn't do much. I also don't know if it was a selling ploy, but why is Val Kilmer's hair perfect on the cover picture? It is far from perfect in the movie.Conclusion: I enjoyed it as a relaxing Saturday, nothing to do, movie.

The premise of this film--almost certainly a failed pilot*--is very, very clever. Greedy industrialists devise the ultimate marketing device--no fast-forwarding, no trips to the kitchen--in our brains. It was the perfect place for a clever satire on the insanity of Madison Avenue. Unfortunately it promptly degenerates into a threadbare revenge saga with all the standard plot devices of such genres.A pity because it had the promise of something much, much better.Brad Kilmer looks deranged. What's with his hair? Has anyone made more bad films than Cuba Gooding? *No movie movie introduces a well-known character actor mug--Lance Henriksen--at the end of a movie unless it's the pilot of a TV series.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning If asked to think of a promising Hollywood talent who has squandered his potential away over the years, without to any knowledge succombing to any drink and drugs lifestyle, it's hard to think of a better example than Cuba Gooding Jr. You usually get 'one hit wonders' with singers, but in his case he had his golden 'show me the money' moment with Jerry Maguire, then spent the following years melting away with Godawful rubbish like Boat Trip and Daddy Day Camp, as if on some mission to wreck his career taking meaningless roles in inferior material. It's carried on, and now we have this rather appalling straight to DVD disaster in which he gives one of his worst performances ever as 'Luke', a former soldier who loses his memory in a car crash where his wife is killed. In a world where the corporations own everything, he finds himself suffering hallucinations in the form of nauseating, tacky commercials for everything from watches to whisky. Some resistance fighters may hold the answers, tracing them as the responsibility of Hope Industries, and as he gets his memory back, it becomes more of a desire for revenge...There isn't a redeeming quality in sight here. The acting from all involved is laughable, from Cuba to a bloated looking, unkempt, bespectacled Val Kilmer as the villain, years of reportedly being an arse to work with on Hollywood film sets relegating him to far lesser stuff like this. And that's without mentioning the effects, especially the 'exploding heads' moments, which look cheaper and faker than if they'd been filmed thirty years ago. Seriously one to avoid. *