Virtuosity
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Movie Reviews of Virtuosity
Movie Review: Whoa!
Summary: 4 Stars
Give a good actor a juicy role, no matter how tacky the vehicle is, and watch him go! Russell Crowe, who here gives Rutger Hauer some stiff competition in the psycho department, (think Roy Batty from "Blade Runner" and "The Hitcher",) stars as SID 6.7 in this sci-fi adventure set SEVEN YEARS AGO. SID is a virtual reality program that the Los Angeles PD wants to use to train its officers in the ways of sociopathic perps. However, in the beginning of the movie, when we're getting all the tech exposition, SID manages, through the dastardly ministrations of his programmer, to work his neural net into an actual self-regenerating android, able to wreak havoc on the city. SID, standing for "Sadistic, Intelligent and Dangerous", is a compendium of hundreds of serial killers and sociopathic personalities, which makes him formidable, indeed! One of those personalities is the man who killed the wife and daughter of Parker Barnes, an ex-cop serving time for manslaughter after killing a civilian by mistake on duty. What follows is a non-stop, roller coaster cat and mouse game the minute the killer inside SID recognizes Barnes and begins to taunt him, just like the actual person did when he was alive. Because of SID's morbid attachment to Barnes, the LAPD tech dept., that created SID, LETAC, recruits Barnes to go after him after he starts to wreak havoc on the city.
Russel Crowe chews the scenery like a barracuda on uppers as he relishes every saidstic, evil deed SID performs in this movie. Washington's performance is phoned in, but he still acquits himself nicely, getting the job done. The ending is tense as all get-out, with you not knowing exactly what's real and what isn't in the film, and there are a few twists taken with this premise, but I guarantee you, you will be on the edge of your seat with this flick, a flick that seemed to jumpstart Crowe's career and was a bit of slumming for Denzel Washington, who had already won an Oscar for his work in "Glory" and was well on his way to becoming a latter day legend. I can't help thinking that this movie started a competition between the two actors, who seem to have been in a status race SINCE this movie, as if Parker and SID are still chasing each other!
The plot thickens!!
Movie Review: "GOD, THIS GUY IS FUN !"
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie its highly enetertaining.
Crowes performance its CRAZY!
I love him as Sid 6.7 This is a Really COOL flick!
Movie Review: Another movie I stomach for a chance to see Russell Crowe
Summary: 3 Stars
Not a fan of this film. The script is not that tight and the flow of the film is a bit choppy. Crowe plays a fictitious creation, a virtual baddie created to train cops how to kill serial killers. But before cops are allowed to use the program, convicts are used to test out the aquipment. Denzel plays such a convict, an ex-cop in prison for murdering a man responcible for the death of his family. Denzel, one of my favorite actors, really really tanks here. Crowe, while not his best film, always carries himself so well in a role. He stands out as charming yet deadly in this film as a test program incarnated in a cylicone body and now has to be tracked down and killed by none other than Denzel. I've put this DVD in the player just to get a glimpse of Russell's bubble butt but the movie experience itself is lacking. If you want a good Crowe film then watch 'Hammers over the Anvil' or 'The Insider' and if you want to see Russell in a good action film then watch 'Gladiator' if you haven't already. Russell, I love you and always will but this film is only worth the 3-4 seconds you show us your @$$...sorry.Movie Review: Bits, Bytes And A Bad Guy ~ When Reality Just Isn't Enough
Summary: 3 Stars
Four years before the Wachowski brothers took us into the cyberspace world of 'The Matrix' director Brett Leonard brought the world of virtual reality to physical form with the arrival of Sid, version 6.7.
Sid (Russell Crowe) is a creation of LETAC, a law enforcement training center where police engage in hostile situations within the persumably safe confines of virtual reality. There they confront the most heinous of virtual criminals, Sid. Sid is the ultimate in evil, a composite personality of 150 serial killers. Highly intelligent and absolutely mercilous he is a hard kill in cyberspace.
However when Sid devises a means by which to transfer his bits and bytes out of his virtual prison and into a physical form the game of death and destruction take on serious consequences. With Sid now roaming the streets of Los Angeles looking for "fun," the job to stop him falls to one of L.A.'s finest, Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington), the police officer who has had the best results against Sid in virtual reality.
While the production values of 'Virtuosity' come no where near the wonders of the 'Matrix Trilogy' it is nevertheless a well constructed plot with two extraordinary actors playing adversarial roles.
Movie Review: 2 stars just for the two oscar winning actors
Summary: 2 Stars
This has got to be the biggest stinker in Denzel's long movie career, just after the oscar winning Philadelphia, he went on to star in this cult Sci Fi movie based on machines outsmarting mankind in a virtual reality game, Russel Crowe also stars in this very, and i mean very bad movie. But hey, if you're a Sci Fi fan, watch this, but don't expect high rated acting from any of the two big stars. On account, this movie didn't make any sufficent funds at the box office and was later labeled by the Hollywood critic, The Only Movie with Two Lead Star To Not Hit The Box Office. This low budget sleepy movie isn't worth watching, if you love Sci Fi, that outakes the life of machines aginst the human race, pick up a true 5 star Hollywood material like, 'A.I', 'Terminator' 'I', 'II', 'III' or Will Smith's new movie, 'I, Robot'.