A movie starring Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington should be worth a look, right? No, I'm not talking about 'American Gangster' which was definitely a pretty good flick, I'm talking about that other movie they made together more than 10 years before. Back then, Russell Crowe didn't breakthrough yet and it will take him 2 more years, thanks to 'L.A. Confidential', to become a household name. Anyw... read more
I've watched this movie a couple of times. One of the ways in which this movie falls apart is the fact that in seems like Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington are in two different movies. Russell recognizes he's in a campy sci-fi farce, but Denzel thinks he's in a straight-up action movie. The movie would have worked better overall if Denzel had also realized just how completely ridiculous the scr... read more
Description:Virtuosity is a 1995 techno-thriller film directed by Brett Leonard. The movie tells the story of a virtual villain's successful attempt to escape into the "real world". SID 6.7, the villain program portrayed by Russell Crowe, is eventually transplanted into an android body and escapes. Parker Barnes, a reinstated police offVirtuosity is a 1995 techno-thriller film directed by Brett Leonard. The movie tells the story of a virtual villain's successful attempt to escape into the "real world". SID 6.7, the villain program portrayed by Russell Crowe, is eventually transplanted into an android body and escapes. Parker Barnes, a reinstated police officer played by Denzel Washington, is given the chance to catch him. The film was shot in and around Los Angeles, California.This was the first time Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe worked together on a film as they worked together again in 2007 on American Gangster.... (more)(less)
""The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual entity synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers. LETAC plans to train police officers by putting them into virtual reality with SID, but they must prove the concept first by using prisoners as test subjects. One such prisoner is ex-cop Parker Barnes. When SID manages to inject his personality into a nano-machine android, it appears tha"
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"Reason for the future sucking:
200 notorious criminal personalities: mass murderers, serial killers, and megalomaniacs, being programmed into a virtual simulation?
Now there is a good idea!
Year it takes place: Unknowish"
“A movie starring Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington should be worth a look, right? No, I'm not talking about 'American Gangster' which was definitely a pretty good flick, I'm talking about that other movie they made together more than 10 years before. Back then, Russell Crowe didn't breakthrough yet and it will take him 2 more years, thanks to 'L.A. Confidential', to become a household name. Anyway, it is jsut some pretty average stuff here. Indeed, they tried to mix some Science-Fiction with some action stuff but the end-result was pretty disappointing. Denzel Washington delivers his usual performance and was allright but not really interesting and Russell Crowe was actually not bad at all as the bad guy and it would be interesting to see him play such a part in a better movie. In my opi” read more
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Plot: A virtual-reality serial killer manages to escape into the real world.
Genre: Action | Crime | Sci-Fi
Director: Brett Leonard
Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch
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Story: 5 | Story Idea: 6 | Acting: 6 | Score: 7 | Visuals: 6
Overall:
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Russell Crowe is the MVP of this film. You don't often get to see Crowe being 'fun' in films, he's sort of built a career around serious, taciturn, characters. As such it's nice to see him letting loose as essentially an ersatz Joker figure. Crowe is so much fun in this film that it kind of suffers whenever he's not onscreen, it's the kind of film which is built largely around his performance.
Denzel Washington does a lot with what he has, but really his character is too thin, "