Thursday 17 June 2010

The Black Cable - *½

You better hope it's long enough
2000, USA, Colour, 97 minutes
Directed by G. Iriani. Written by Jan Smit, Euad Grant (PhD)
Starring June Meredith, Ian Burns, Bosworth Brandt

The Cold War is long over, and a new threat has arisen, one that makes the Soviets look like a bunch of Quakers out on a knees up. That's right, neo-syndicalism is back, and this time it isn't taking 'no' for an answer . The Black Cable is an example of the brief Dot Com "I have too much money" movie wave of 2000, before the money evaporated back into the ether. While the title sort of gives this away the real clue is the "in joke" references to networking technology. I suspect it isn't really that funny even to networking geeks.

Quote – “You idiot, I said RJ friggen 45 not RJ 11! You've doomed us all!”

Reviewed by Juan Incognito