# Hardwired (2009)

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**Runtime**: 94 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Adventure, Action, Thriller
**Directed by**: Ernie Barbarash
**Written by**: Michael Hurst
**Starring**: Cuba Gooding Jr., Val Kilmer, Alastair Gamble, Juan Riedinger, Michael Ironside, Tatiana Maslany

> *They stole his past, now he's taking back his future.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rain slicks the neon-lit alleyway. A steel plate glints beneath Luke’s temple, syncing with a pulse that’s no longer his own.  
Corporate medics smile too wide, their implants humming a frequency only the test subjects hear.  
Like a Carpenter paranoid-tech thriller from the bargain bin, just leaner and less convinced of its own ideas.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, paranoid

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