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

| Jun 20, 2024

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 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

Dazzling computer animation and special effects overcome The Lawnmower Man's mundane story.

| Mar 26, 2009

Despite the hackneyed sub-Frankenstein plot, the dazzling computer-generated special effects almost carry the film.

| Jun 24, 2006

The Lawnmower 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.

| Aug 30, 2004

So loosely based on a Stephen King short story as to constitute fraud, The Lawnmower Man goes right to the bottom of a growing list of failed King adaptations.

| Jan 1, 2000

The Lawnmower Man tries to hit all the points of dogma about Virtual Reality, but it's getting to be such a large text that each point only gets a mention.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000