ORBzine - 2001.05 Video Movies Reviews

ORBzine Video Reviews May 2001

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Wild Palms

Set in Los Angeles, 2007, James Belushi plays a corporate lawyer hapily married to Dana Delaney . Belushi is approached by femme fatale Kim Cattrall , his ex-girlfriend, to find her young son who has gone missing. Angie Dickinson plays Belushi's mother-in-law, who is a lot more vicious than she looks.
The story starts with an undercurrent of tension. MIBs straight out The Matrix prowl the streets and beat up people they don't like. As the story progresses we get other aspects that may have influenced that film. The technology involved includes shared dreams [of a Rhino that seems to represent the unicorn used in Blade Runner ], holograms and interactive television. This explores the phenomenon of TV addict kids, and asks the question what is reality? ...
The Senator [Robert Loggia] owns MIMECOM, the technology company that bends reality, with the slogan Everything Must Go. Bebe Newirth has a cameo as an actress in a MIMECOM virtual soap-opera. The Senator runs a sort of techno-religion, in an L. Ron Hubbard reference. At a meeting that owes something to the convention at the end of Videodrome we get a William Gibson cameo.
The rest of the cast is pretty well-rounded out. Belushi's best buddy is played by Ernie Hudson [Oz], while his father-in-law is David Warner [ TMNT 2 ]. Brad Dourif [ Exorcist III ] pops up as a crippled computer genius.
The show's producer Oliver Stone has a cameo guest appearance on a TV talk show. There is the obligatory JFK reference, and the interviewer states that the Conspiracy was so much bigger ... How the hell could it have been bigger than the entire US military-industrial complex?!

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