Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)

What makes Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace oddly watchable is how confidently it dives into that mid-’90s techno-paranoia, when the internet felt like a haunted frontier and virtual reality promised both salvation and ruin. It moves with a brisk, pulpy momentum—part sci-fi thriller, part cyber-horror fever dream—while Matt Frewer brings a crackling, unhinged energy that gives the digital villainy a human pulse, and Patrick Bergin grounds the chaos with a weary seriousness. The effects and design have that neon, early-CGI imagination that can be charmingly dated and genuinely inventive in the same breath, especially when reality starts to “glitch” around the characters. It’s not for anyone looking for subtlety or hard science, but if you want a fast, noisy ride through cyberspace with big ideas, bad attitudes, and a surprisingly committed cast, it delivers.

Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace is clearly trying to cash in on mid-’90s techno-paranoia with a bigger, louder “VR gone evil” sequel where reality glitches and a digital demigod threatens the world. The problem is it mistakes noise for momentum: the plot lurches from set piece to set piece, characters feel like placeholders, and the writing leans heavily on familiar cyber-thriller beats without earning the stakes. If you’re coming for the eerie, thoughtful edge the premise promises (or anything resembling the first film’s ambition), you’ll likely find it messy and oddly flat. That said, if you enjoy dated CGI weirdness, hacker-kid energy, and don’t mind a thin story as long as the movie keeps pressing buttons, it can play like a campy time capsule.