A hacker with a bomb in his chest has 35 hours to catch a thief or kaboom. Y2K paranoia core.
J.B. (Lars Bom) - an ultra-talented Webmaster of an illicit cyber-domain known for massive amounts of illegal money transfers is captured and is put under suspicion by the cyber-domain boss named Stoiss (Jørgen Kiil) when an intruder hacks into the system and steals the Stoiss’s money. Stoiss sticks a heart controller device on J.B. and gives him 35 hours to find who took his money or he dies.
Practical Effects
Gloriously chunky '90s hardware and LED-covered torture vests
Production
Copenhagen standing in for dystopian metropolis on a budget
Acting
Lars Bom's committed panic face carrying entire sequences
Director
Thomas Borch Nielsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Denmark's earliest feature-length cyberpunk films, shot on a shoestring budget that makes its practical effects even more impressive.
The 'heart controller' device taps into millennial fears of technology literally invading the body, years before Black Mirror made it mainstream.
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