| Virtuosity | 
 enlarge | Director: Brett Leonard
Actors: Denzel Washington, Kelly Lynch, Russell Crowe, Stephen Spinella, William Forsythe
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 12983
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 105
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD331447D
ISBN: 0792155246
UPC: 097363314479
EAN: 9780792155249
ASIN: B00000ILBO
Theatrical Release Date: August 4, 1995
Release Date: May 25, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Movie disc only! We liquidate dvds from a large national rentailer. Movie disc works fine and we'll ship it in a protective sleeve for you. There is a 15% chance that it may contain a rental sticker on the disc that we were unable to remove. In stock and ships today.
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Product Description
An ex-cop doing prison time chases a virtual-reality killer from the program onto the los angeles streets. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/03/2006 Starring: Denzel Washington Kevin J. Oconnor Run time: 106 minutes Rating: R Director: Brett Leonard
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 AI gone ballistic February 16, 2008
This is a replacement for the VHS tape I had. I love this movie. It has two of my favorite actors in it (Denzel and Russell). I love to watch this movie because it makes me think of the future and how computers and machines could ruin our lives.
 Every actor has a movie like this September 21, 2007
I am a Denzel Washington fan.
I kinda like Russell Crowe.
This movie is to be avoided if you don't want to taint your impression as actors. Absolutely a horrible movie, rotten script, bad directing, waste of two good actors... kinda cool idea, though, of using nano technology to give life to a virtual entity - I'd like to see Lawnmower man exit his virtual cage via this gimick.
Anyway, I put this in the same category as Escape from LA. To be avoided at all costs. No matter the cheap price.
 Okay, But Not Great Sci-Fi Thriller April 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With Virtuosity having Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, you would think, or at least hope that this would be an all-time classic. But instead, this film is a fairly solid, not bad, but not great film, where special effects and an overwrought screenplay almost upend two of the best actors of our generation.
In Virtuosity, a world of the future has developed a novel way to train police officers. They take a computer program and imbue it with the personalities of over 100 serial killers, and put officers into virtual reality training using the model, known as SID 6.7. As these things tend to go in science fiction films, artificial intelligence runs amok, and Sid 6.7 implants himself in an android and goes on a rampage.
The only solution to thwart SID 6.7 is using an ex-cop, Parker Barnes, who been in jail for a while to catch. The rest of the film is a cat-and-mouse chase between SID, played by still largely unknown Crowe and Barnes, played by Washington.
The film has cool special effects, an interesting plot, and two great actors anchoring the movie. But the script weighs things down, and the ending confrontation seems to go on forever. This film is not bad, but it could have been a lot better.
Role Reversal December 7, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Now if Denzel would have got to cut loose like Russell Crowe did in this one, American Gangster would have been a much more exciting movie.
Always Been A Classic November 2, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I believe this movie was light years ahead of it's time when it was made, great concept, awesome story line, and top dollar actors. Possibly the greatest movie ever, depending on what kind of movies you like. If you like action and technology in your movies with a little bit of suspense then you've come to the right place, buy this movie. You won't be disappointed.
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