a modern fairy-tale. about importance of image, lies as food of entertainment, domination of technique and rating. about a fake world. a nice, amusing film. and one of not real brilliant roles of Al Pacino. and it is not his guilty. the script desires explore all possibilities of a clever idea. so, the role of poor Viktor becomes more and more little. or insignificant. so, the best remains beginning. than it seems be too much and the all story may have few fake stripes. it is a satire. and this is motif for who must be viewed not very frequent. because its magic is fragile. because the seductive image can be more than real. a nice movie. and one of Al Pacino gray roles.

Everyday we watch more stories about how technology involve our life in a way that we do not care about anything else, this paranoiac topic gets the interest of many viewers, and more and more writers exploit this matters, the movie also shows the obsession that not only people but also paparazzi has on the life of an artist.I watched this movie and I love it, my tendency on science fiction usually gives the movies three star at least, I usually choose the movies I am going to see for its cast and director, so when I watched it, I didn't know what could I expect. But even thought I have a glade surprise.This movie has Al Pacino as one its main stars, he is one of the best actors on screen and I admire how he catches people attention with his monologue that defines him, and I think the unknown actress Rachel Roberts was perfect to create the illusion of her inexistence, furthermore Winona Ryder an actress that rarely get it right however accomplish well this task. The futurist Andrew Niccols has done another well made movie, this time he succeeds on bring us humor with mocking on Hollywood moralism.Simone is a simple movie that entertains with satire on paranoiac technology evolution and showbiz obsession. Definitely worth to watch

Though not repeatedly heard, writer/director Andrew Niccol is really talented in incorporating societal topics into his movies in shocking ways. Basically, his works worked because the concepts he played with are well implemented and fertilized by him.From Gattaca to Truman Show, to S1m0ne, sci-fi is not something only Lucas and Spierberg can handle, although these guys are always interested in telling you their visions for the future are not cheap. The concepts behind S1m0ne can be considered impossible to realize in the real world because anyone with any computer knowledge would know to digitally fabricate a role and incorporate her into the real production footages would take 100 computer engineers and days of work to render each frame...... And, in the movie Simone only needed Al Pacino's solo job to do the motion-detection, dubbing and everything, using one PC. Of course this is a joke, but again anyone paying too much attention to that missed the point of the movie, that medias produce idols, idols made money and made the line between reality and illusion blur. In this crazy logic yet again accepted by most of us in the public, we can't laugh all the comedic characters portrayed without looking at ourselves. And frankly speaking, Niccol always knew how to end a movie in a satisfying way. S1m0ne is not an exception, that just when everyone thought the story will go in the logically-favored direction, it turned to be better.You need a good director to master someone like Al Pacino, and that means certainly not averagely-good, but really good. Before S1m0ne, I always thought Pacino only fits either outrageous roles or traumatic roles or both. But S1m0ne proved he can also be as funny as Jim Carrie. Given all the chaotic and idiotic situations in the movie, Pacino pretty much held true to his outrageous and traumatic nature but pulled off one of the best roles in his career. Robert Deniro, Dustin Hoffman both had similar roles in a similar genre(Wag the Dog and What Just Happened) and none of their performances can match Pacino's. Besides, S1m0ne really made What Just Happened looked like amateurish work.Al last, as the movie's rating kept dropping for years, the ideas in it actually are approaching us. I am looking forward to director Niccol's next project. Keep it up Mr Niccol!

I didn't plan to write a comment, but it seems that only people who liked this movie wrote good comments. So I had to write a bad one.The concept is good, in the future, there probably will be plenty computer generated actors in movies. However, it needs lots of polish. The mentality of this movie is just immature, as if it was done by a high school graduate who has no experience of how real world works.Some things are just not logical. How can Simone actually have a concert, who provided her with all those songs that she has to perform? The computer can produce her voice, can the computer actually sings in her voice? And if people check out her background, they can easily find those people who went to the same school with her, etc. It would be so easy to find out if she is real or not. The "director's daughter" just doesn't look right for her part, she doesn't look like a person who actually knows something about the computers. In the end, when the "director" took out all the computer hard disks, how was she able to actually bring the computer back without the hard disk? Even though it has a few familiar actors in this movie, this whole movie is simply not realistic. The dead guy only gave the "director" a hard disk, how was he able to get that special keyboard with all those words on them? In one scene, "director Taransky" even used a big plastic computer disk which everyone stopped using since 1990's. This movie director is out of touch with the real world here. It has many simple minded, predictable scenes, such as in the "movie 'I am pig'", Simone actually had to eat with pigs. come on, there are many ways to show it. It didn't have to be so predicable.Overall, the good actors in this movie saved this show. So it is at least still watchable. Maybe fifty years later, when someone sees this film, s/he will be surprised about how accurate this film was able to predict the future.