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The Worst Film Ever
Beystiman
It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Leoni Haney
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
haskala
I was looking for a good film to watch on Netflix. I was baffled by all the negative reviews at IMDb and elsewhere. I thought the film was fast paced and clever. I think the movie was a 10 and I recommend it to all. Bruce Willis was good and all the acting was good and believable. I enjoyed this movie from beginning to the end.
poolboy-35732
This steaming pile is without a doubt a festering regret in the otherwise inoffensive life of Bruce Willis. Granted, not exactly a Shakesperean actor but who hasn't been gratuitously entertained by all of his yippie-ky-yay shoot-em-ups? But after being visually assaulted by this rotting roadkill I just have to believe he was hard up for a quick payday. Yes, I suppose it's partly my own fault because the SMART thing would have been to delete it off DVR when one character said to another, "Jeez, Kel, you make me gonna cry." There was simply no way this could have gone anywhere but horribly wrong after that. This "movie" was nothing more than the low-budget bastard love-child of a blasphemous four-way, wherein "Total Recall", "Blade Runner", and "The Island" all had their way with "Westworld" in a dark alley behind a burned out 7-11, resulting in this vile blasphemy against Nature. If anyone tries to get you to watch it, that person is NOT your friend. In fact you should probably just punch them. Don't worry, it'll be justified as self-defense.
Mark Thompson
Absolute dreck.Forget about how much money you'd spend renting it -- the real cost is you'll never get the 96 minutes of your life back.1. This film is truly awful from top to bottom, in all important respects. The script is terrible, the acting almost uniformly amateurish, and Brian A. Miller's direction is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E! It's beyond me how someone actually gets PAID to turn in this level of film. And this is his SIXTH directing credit! I don't know why there would be a seventh.2. Why EVER would Bruce Willis do this drivel? He can't possibly need the money, can he? Somebody needs to have a come to-Jesus-talk with him about quick paychecks versus industry/audience respect and career health.3. I can find only two good things about this film: a) it was shot in Mobile, Alabama, so at least the budget dollars stayed in the U.S.; and b) it's a very good reminder of how difficult it is to make a quality film, and gives me new-found appreciation for those that do.There are so, so many better things I could have done with that 96 minutes.
johmil-18374
The sci-fi idea of this movie is not so bad. A city (Vice) where paying customers can do what ever impulse came into their mind to the residents of Vice, and what would that do to the customers when they return to their homes outside of Vice.In reality this is a psychological issue that psychologist study a lot, in the one corner we have Freuds theory catharsis, a release of intra psychological energy, and then its good to do this release like boxing for example. The other theory is Banduras modeling and then things you do creates a model for you to handle other things in life in a similar way. Studies show that modeling is closer to the truth and thats the conclusion of the movie as well. When Vice people get back in a "real" city they are dangerous like they are in Vice.Another interesting thing this movie handled is what is life? Here they draw the line when we don't have a real longterm memory. Unfortnatly this ideas is not well executed. Its just to many bad action scenes (how many times can you run and avoid bullets). Bad acting mostly in the minor parts like the lead hunter/security officer for Vice and the police captain for example. This movie should have skipped the action parts and tried some sophisticated story instead. I would recommend an other sci-fi with Bruce Willis instead and thats Surrogates, its a great movie cause it also handle interesting philosophical questions but in a much better way than Vice and have a hell of a lot better actors as well.