Steve D
Shockingly inept given Washington's solid (as always) work. Terrible idea for a film.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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Jeffrey P
If you told me this was the main inspiration for The Matrix I would not be surprised. In addition to The Matrix, we've seen numerous films dealing with this subject in the last twenty years. With okay action and two Oscar winners engaged in a game of cat & mouse, the absurdity still cannot be hidden due to a few holes.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
06/27/23
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I really like the part where Sid 6.7 reaches his final form and becomes Sid V.1C10U5 and gets the strap back from Booker T (played by Denzel Washington) at Starrcade. Too bad Kevin Nash and Scott Hall were stopped from forming the NWO with Hollywood Hogan in this movie as I thought this was a documentary and as we all know the NWO is a real life organization taking over the world still to this day,
Steak really is a lot better when you eat it with Steven Seagal. Don;t believe me? Try it.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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Lucas G
A true mess of a movie that was held together by strong performances from the leads.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
08/05/22
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Hilariously dated action flick from the mid-90s that explores the dangers of virtual reality that's so bad it veers into guilty pleasure territory. The entire nightclub scene is extraordinary.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/27/23
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In Los Angeles, Lt. Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington) and John Donovan are testing a virtual reality system that is going to be used for training police officers. The two are tracking down a serial killer named SID 6.7 (Russell Crowe) at a restaurant in virtual reality. SID (short for Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous, a VR amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history) causes Donovan to go into shock, killing him. The director overseeing the project, before Commissioner Elizabeth Deane and her associate, William Wallace, orders the programmer in charge of creating SID, Dr. Darrel Lindenmeyer, to shut down the project. Barnes is a former police officer imprisoned for killing political terrorist Matthew Grimes, who killed Parker's wife and daughter. Barnes killed Grimes and innocent bystanders. This caused him to become a convicted killer and serve 17 years to life. Barnes meets with criminal psychologist Dr. Madison Carter following a fight between Barnes and another prisoner, Big Red. Meanwhile, Lindenmeyer informs SID that he is about to be shut down because the death caused when he disabled the fail-safes. At SID's suggestion, Lindenmeyer convinces another employee, Clyde Reilly, that a sexually-compliant virtual reality model, Sheila 3.2, another project created by Lindenmeyer, can be brought to life in a synthetically grown android body. Lindenmeyer replaces the Sheila 3.2 module with the SID 6.7 module. Now processed into the real world, SID 6.7 kills Reilly. Once word gets out of SID being in the real world, Deane and Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Cochran offer Barnes a deal: if he catches SID and brings him back to virtual reality, he will be pardoned. Barnes agrees, and with help from Carter, they discover that Matthew Grimes, the terrorist who killed Barnes's wife and daughter, is a part of SID 6.7's personality profile. After killing a group of security guards, SID heads over to the Media Zone, a local nightclub, where he takes hostages. Barnes and Carter go to the nightclub to stop him, but SID escapes...
The film received mostly mixed to negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes consensus states: "Woefully deficient in thrills or common sense, Virtuosity strands its talented stars in a story whose vision of the future is depressingly short on imagination." Roger Ebert, however, wrote that the movie was "filled with bright ideas and fresh thinking" and "still finds surprises" despite a somewhat cliché premise.
This 1995 sci-fi actioneer touch base with "Demolition Man", "Terminator" and "Lawnmover Man", but feels very outdated in 2021 due to the poor CGI, over the top performances and the 90s cinematography. The idea is there, but the execution is not. Denzel Washington is ok, while Russell Crowe goes way over the top as SID 6.7. Nevertheless, "Virtuosity" is hardly amongst their best work.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/21/23
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