Set within the No longer Too Far-off Long term, “Virtuosity” stars Denzel Washington as Parker Barnes, a cop serving out a jail sentence for killing the psychopath who killed his circle of relatives. Russell Crowe performs SID 6.7, an artificially clever madman that used to be programmed with the personalities of historical past’s maximum notorious villains (in addition to the killer who slew Barnes’ circle of relatives) to be used in digital truth coaching workouts by means of the Los Angeles Police Division.
The SID in SID 6.7 stands for Sadistic, Clever, and Bad, and as you will have almost definitely already guessed, he is in a position to escape of his digital truth life and reconstitute himself as a just about indestructible android in the true global. Should you’ve observed “Demolition Guy,” you’ll be able to almost definitely additionally bet that Barnes will get launched from jail so as to catch SID and put him again in VR the place he belongs. There is additionally just a little “Break out from New York” in there, as Barnes is implanted with a tool that can kill him if he tries to get away with out finishing his venture.
It is transparent that “Virtuosity” has were given a perfect and imaginative thought at the back of it. Whether or not it lives up to its premise is open for debate, however it appears that evidently, IMDb customers do not suppose so, since its 5.5/10 ranking puts it on the backside of all of the action-thrillers Washington has gave the impression in up to now.