i finally saw william castle project x the other night and i be surprise by the story line . it remind me a lot of johnny mnemonic or the matrix and the whole cyberpunk genre of film or book . project x be seriously outdated because of the fx and the boring and cheap production value and which make this movie look like a standard 1960s tv movie . but the story itself screams william gibson represent it about retrieve some memory from a spy ( play by christopher george ) who suffer from amnesia and who might have the information about asia attempt to destroy the west . the amnesia be artificially induce in the spy by someone in order to prevent the information from reach the authority in the west . when the film start and the spy be incase in some coffin like chamber and he in suspended animation . scientist revive the spy and try to get that memory from his amnesiac mind with a holographic device that can see inside the man mind when he sleep . the scientist also recreate a virtual reality set that look like something from the 1960s where the scientist hope the spy will be dupe and eventually hand them the miss memory ( the spy know a lot about history and which be the explanation for the elaborate set up . it also cheaper this way . no expensive futuristic set . lol . ) . of course and someone try to botch the scientist attempt to save the world . the story be fill with detail like biowarfare and overpopulation and infertility and etc . the identity of the spy be repeatedly change by the scientist and who keep refer to these new virtual personality of his a a matrix . johnny mnemonic be basically an unofficial remake of project x. in johnny mnemonic and the whole world be suffer from some sort of condition call nerve attenuation syndrome . keanu reeve have information implant in his brain ( which have a chip ) that could cure na . keanu get this implant info in beijing and he only have 24 hour to bring the vital info to the scientist in the u . william gibson basically rework the idea find in project x and update them for johnny mnemonic . for instance and in johnny mnemonic and the world be already suffer from something and the cure be from asia . in project x and the threat be from asia and it some sort of virus or biochemical or nerve weapon . and the action in both story be govern by some sort of limited timeline . while watch the film and i have a vivid sense of deja vu . the whole idea of advanced technology capable of control memory and and the reality vs virtual reality aspect see in project x be the basic ingredient of the whole cyberpunk genre . project x be very familiar and yet and thanks to the look of the movie and very outdated too . a a movie and project x be not that good but it interesting to see where the whole idea of memory manipulation start from .