© 2006 William Ahearn

“Menno’s Mind” is the story of a programmer who works at a virtual reality resort where the CEO is rigging an election using the supercomputers.

There’s an underground movement to expose the conspiracy and the leader of the guerillas dies but not before Menno digitizes his mind and uploads it into the computer. The resistance will fail and the conspiracy will continue unless something can be done. So Menno downloads the resistance leader’s mind into his own head and gets to hang out with the resistance leader’s tough girl sidekick.

Or something like that.

This flick is an almost incoherent geek wet dream. At the end (yeah, like you’re gonna see it), the girl also dies but not before our nerd hero digitizes her and she and the resistance leader get to trade data packets in a virtual reality supercomputer-created amusement park where customers get to live out their fantasies.

To give some idea of the level of innovation of this film, the hero opens a locked door by shooting the keypad. How to handle a keypad- controlled door is explored in a high-tech fashion in "WarGames." A more reliable way is seen in "Sneakers."

A really good example of a bad movie.