Virtuosity

Virtuosity (1995)

Justice needs a new program.

The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can stop him.

Date of release
1995-08-04
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (642)
Runtime
1h 46m
Genres
Action, Crime, Science Fiction, Thriller
Director
Brett Leonard

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $30M

Virtuosity is a 1995 American science-fiction action film directed by Brett Leonard from a screenplay by Eric Bernt, and starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe and Kelly Lynch. The film follows a disgraced ex-cop (Washington) who must hunt down a virtual reality being (Crowe), composited from the personalities of multiple serial killers, who has gained sentience and escaped into the real world.

Production

After the success of The Lawnmower Man, director Brett Leonard received a number of virtual reality-based scripts as potential follow-ups, with Leonard rejecting them as they weren't very good and were overly reliant upon cybersex, which he didn't feel could sustain an entire movie.

Washington restructured much of the story and dialogue during filming, entirely removing a romantic subtext between the Lt. Barnes and Dr. Carter characters from the original script.

Principal photography for the film began on January 25, 1995. Parts of the film were filmed at the abandoned Hughes Aircraft plant in Los Angeles.

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