What a way to go. Director John Flynn has left behind the adult action of The Outfit and Rolling Thunder, never mind the social "issues" of The Sergeant and Touched, and has taken up pandering to adolescents: gadgets and special effects and hard-rock musical tracks. He manages to bestow a certain vividness on ordinary activities such as knocking on a neighbor's front door, but there is scant opportunity here for ordinary activities. The point of focus is a virtual-reality video game (advertised in Fangoria magazine, or Fango for short) that may after all be actual reality: the last word in "interactive terror," hosted by a hybrid of Freddy Krueger and Keith Richards, sporting the unpromising monicker of "Trickster." The longer it goes on, the less sense it makes, least of all in the it-was-all-a-dream denouement. With Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T. Ryder Smith. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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