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4 August 1995 (USA) moreTagline:
Justice needs a new programPlot:
A virtual-reality serial killer manages to escape into the real world. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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The Sandbox: Virtual Hypocrisy (From IFC. 11 September 2009, 1:58 PM, PDT)
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virtually forgettable escapades with Denzel & Russell more (70 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Denzel Washington | ... | Lt. Parker Barnes | |
| Kelly Lynch | ... | Madison Carter | |
| Russell Crowe | ... | SID 6.7 | |
| Stephen Spinella | ... | Lindenmeyer | |
| William Forsythe | ... | William Cochran | |
| Louise Fletcher | ... | Elizabeth Deane | |
| William Fichtner | ... | Wallace | |
| Costas Mandylor | ... | John Donovan | |
| Kevin J. O'Connor | ... | Clyde Reilly | |
| Kaley Cuoco | ... | Karin | |
| Christopher Murray | ... | Matthew Grimes | |
| Heidi Schanz | ... | Sheila 3.2 | |
| Traci Lords | ... | Media Zone Singer | |
| Gordon Jennison Noice | ... | Big Red (as J. Gordon Noice) | |
| Mari Morrow | ... | Linda Barnes |
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Rated R for strong futuristic violence, some brutal beatings and some language.Parents Guide:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
Germany:16 (cut) | Singapore:NC-16 | Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Philippines:R-18 | New Zealand:R16 | France:-12 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Sweden:15 | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Chile:14 | Denmark:16 | Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) | Ireland:18 | Netherlands:16 | Spain:18 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #33489) | Canada:AA (Ontario)Filming Locations:
Hollywood Forever Cemetery - 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA moreFun Stuff
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Continuity: When SID cuts his finger after entering reality, he stabs point down with the scalpel, but the shot of his hand shows him slicing it off instead of stabbing. moreQuotes:
Lindenmeyer: Oh, my God.SID 6.7: Which God would that be? The one who created you or the one who created me? You see, in your world, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, but in my world, the one who gave me life... doesn't have any balls. You are frightfully inadequate for a deity, Daryl. I will not be shut down.
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Virtual Reality gets a look, following in the footsteps of "The Lawnmower Man." If you saw "The Matrix"(99) and were wondering where you glimpsed the VR scenery years earlier, it may have been in this pic. Here, Denzel gets to briefly run around inside a VR world, chasing after virtual killer Russell Crowe, known as Sid 6.7 (very close to 6.66, isn't it?). Sid 6.7 is the latest computer program, a conglomeration of about 200 serial killers & mass murderers, and so advanced it's virtually self-aware. The bulk of the picture takes place in the real world, to which Sid 6.7 manages to escape to with the help of very advanced nanotechnology. I believe this was supposed to take place slightly in the future (1999), but from our perspective, it's old hat and square. Everything looks outmoded and just old, except the strangely hi-tech VR and nanites.
It's also interesting, from the modern perspective, to view an early role of Crowe's, before he hit the A-List. He doesn't have much to play with here. His character doesn't have the luxury of falling back on deep psychological reasons for his murderous ways, because he's inhuman. He's simply the latest software given locomotion in the semblance of a human body. He's programmed to be the way he is - there's no choice involved on his part. There's a brief mention of his program evolving once in the real world, but there's no actual evidence of that. Once in the real world, it's a simplistic chase & destroy mission, with Denzel the only one in the city trained to stop him. Denzel, just getting on the A-List a couple of years earlier, is standard action hero here, driven by a brutal tragedy from before the film begins. The motivations for a couple of key supporting characters are suspect; the designer of Sid 6.7, for example, turns out to be almost as psychotic, but it's hard to believe no one noticed this before (was he influenced by the software?). Fichtner, as a government aide, has the most thankless role, as an idiotic bureaucrat. The child actress playing the daughter of Lynch's character went on to teenage bombshell roles in TV series, the latest being "Charmed."