While ultimately the villain, Jobe is also a victim, and his retreat into the virtual world is entirely understandable.

| Jun 20, 2024

It’s cheesy and dripping in 90s silliness, but this VR thriller offers an unnerving – if not absurd – cyberthriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2024

…even if the story is rote, this wacky directors cut is probably the best way to appreciate the skewed, past-tense vision of our future that we get a glimpse of here…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2022

It's harder than ever to take Jeff Fahey's performance seriously since it's as broad as Ben Stiller's Tugg Speedman character playing Simple Jack in Tropic Thunder.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 8, 2021

The Lawnmower Man is an ambitious not-quite failure that almost dared King to sue from moment one, but is still worth a watch if you love aged computer graphics and shlocky cheese.

| Jan 24, 2020

There are plenty of eye-rolling moments in this film, and not just from the dated effects.

| Jul 26, 2019

It's an intriguing premise that's employed to perpetually erratic effect by director Brett Leonard...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2019

Gratuitously offensive.

| Jul 25, 2018

Its greatest assets are its dazzling video game special effects.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 1, 2017

Nowadays, The Lawnmower Man's cyberspace looks like a budget PlayStation 2 title.

| Oct 18, 2017

The Lawnmower Man features an intriguing plot filled with some grand ideas, but thanks to a screenplay that throws all of that away in favor of a tonally-jarring and silly spectacle, we end up with a film whose full potential is never realized.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2017

The Lawnmower Man echoes Frankenstein and a zillion other noble-scientist-whose-experiment-goes-awry movies.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2014

The Lawnmower Man is a visually stunning and innovative sojourn into a world of computer science gone haywire.

| Apr 1, 2014

As a visual adventure, The Lawnmower Man is great fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 1, 2014

Virtual reality aside, The Lawnmower Man suffers all the usual problems: the cliched story is further undermined by wooden performances, and the inevitable unhappy ending.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 1, 2014

The CG sequences have dated horrendously.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 1, 2014

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2014

The once eye-popping special effects are the real attraction of this science-fiction tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2014

This latest attempt to translate King's horrific talent into a movie interweaves ancient fright techniques with modern technology and winds up as Nintendoized Gothic.

| Apr 1, 2014

The blatant effort to cash in on King's name has never been so evident before, and at this rate we can surely expect the prime terror and gruesome shocks of Stephen King's Grocery List.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2010