“The Generator” (*1/2 out of four) was a dreary/sleazy sci/fi melodrama about a crazed scientist (Tommie Grabiec) who discovers that he can achieve human emotions by connecting himself to a computer server and attempts to expand this to mind control but two determined subjects (Leanne Courtney and Wesley Forke) attempt to thwart him by playing a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse within the virtual world. Or something like that. Unpleasant and uninvolving story fails to “generate” much emotion of its own and comes up empty on sparks or thrills. “The Matrix” more-or-less told this same story on a much grander scale almost exactly two decades ago.