History Main / JohnnyMnemonic

** LifeImitatesArt: All airports have these now, but they just irradiate you without mentioning medical risks.

* OneLastJob: Johnny wants to leave his line of work and restore his lost childhood memories. He agrees to do "one more run" for Ralfi in order to get enough money to afford an expensive "procedure" to restore those memories. However, [[AbortedArc the need for that money for that procedure is never brought up in the movie again]] [[PlotHole and he inexplicably ends up requiring neither to get what he needs]].

* OneLastJob: Johnny wants to leave his line of work and restore his lost childhood memories. He agrees to do "one more run" for Ralfi in order to get enough money to afford an expensive "procedure" to restore those memories. However, [[AbortedArc these details are never brought up in the movie after the opening scene]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Shinji]] has his head cut off [[spoiler: by his own RazorFloss whip]]. And then a shipping crate on fire falls on top of his headless corpse, [[SarcasmMode just in case there are any doubts as to whether or not he's actually dead]].

* OneLastJob: Johnny wants to leave his line of work and restore his lost childhood memories. He agrees to do "one more run" in order to get the money needed to afford an expensive "procedure", although it's never again brought up in the movie.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: When installing Johnny's brain implant, memories of his childhood were somehow selectively singled out and removed.

* NotQuiteDead: Inverted.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Performed by the Street Preacher on the bartender from the CyberPunk club to get some information. It works.

Also has a little-known FullMotionVideo game for the {{3DO}} with different actors.

* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The climax.

* SexyBack: Jane, played by Dina Meyer, who never seems to shy from nudity.

* PostFinalBoss: After the movie's most threatening antagonists (Shinji and the Street Preacher) are dealt with, Johnny still has to "hack his own brain", where Johnny has to contend with a computer virus, which isn't anywhere near as dangerous (or as interesting) as the other enemies Johnny had to deal with.

* DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere: The film features a cybernetically-enhanced dolphin computer hacker. This was actually taken from the original short story.

* AwesomeYetPractical: Johnny's "wet-wired" brain implant. He doesn't have a secret "data storage device" hidden ''in'' his brain, his brain ''is'' secretly a "data storage device". He has an I/O port in his head, and his childhood's been erased to make space for a few gigs of squishy RAM. Security freaks have the right to force nursing mothers to ''drink their own breast milk'' - confiscating a shiny mini-disc would be no problem whatsoever. Johnny's implant is a completely undetectable hiding place; as it turns digital data into memories, it's plugged into the Broca region of his brain and is identical to a perfectly legal dyslexia prosthetic. The difference is that he has a file folder in his head, which can only be identified, let alone accessed, with the download code - there's nothing for even the most sociopathically perverted OverreactingAirportSecurity to find.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: [[MegaCorp PharmaKom]] [[spoiler: hides the cure for NAS because "treating the disease is more profitable than curing it," despite the fact that the cure would still be very profitable in a world where half of the global population suffers from the disease. If they went through all the trouble to research and develop it in the first place, they may as well have tried to sell it, anyway.]]

* CleanCut: Performed by a the molecuwire whip.

* DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere: The film features a cybernetically-enhanced dolphin computer hacker. This was actually taken from the original short story. The extended Japanese cut of the movie also reveals the dolphin to be a drug addict.

* AirVentPassageway: Jane takes one after Ralfi and his bodyguards carry an unconscious Johnny to a backroom at a nightclub. The vent is so wide and spacious that Jane only needs to crouch down to fit through and can still walk on two feet when moving through it.

* TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: For Shinji and his {{Mooks}} to take an elevator from the lobby of the hotel in Beijing to the floor where Johnny and his present clients are, it takes them the entire length of time for Johnny to prepare for uploading the data (starting with when Johnny opens his briefcase containing his equipment), receive the data, and make a printout of the download code (roughly two minutes and forty-two seconds). It then takes them another minute and a half (enough time for Johnny's clients to destroy the original copy of the data they gave him and for Johnny himself to regain his composure in the bathroom) to walk from the elevator to their hotel room door.

* TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: For Shinji and his {{Mooks}} to take an elevator from the lobby of the hotel in Beijing to the floor where Johnny and his present clients are, it takes them the entire length of time for Johnny to prepare for uploading the data (starting with when Johnny opens his briefcase containing his equipment), receive the data, and make a printout of the download code (roughly two minutes and forty-two seconds). It then takes them another minute and a half (enough time for Johnny's clients to destroy the original copy of the data they gave him and for Johnny himself to regain his composure in the bathroom) For Shinji and Co. to walk from the elevator to their hotel room door.

* WithholdingTheCure: It is revealed that [=PharmaKom=] is suppressing the cure for Nerve Attenuation Syndrome.