Take Blade Runner for the the "who am I?" philosophy part of the movie", add some Terminator 2 for the "let's chase and shoot a self healing shape shifting pretend person" bit,a smattering of Robocop for the vision of the future, with the self identity element too and a tiny bit of Total Recall for the "is this real?" part.Mix them all up with a low budget plus a, forgettable female lead, cute kid in danger a deliciously OTT Russell Crowe and the seemingly clichéd good cop wronged and trying to seek vengeance and closure (that must be the Lethal Weapon element) and you end up with this movie. It tries to be all of the above but lacks focus and is ultimately a dull chase movie with the hard done by cop chasing a super villain, who constantly slips through his fingers.

I think I might have see this several times over the years.You read synopsis, sounds great. You take a look at A list of actors, wow, great.You start watching it and OK, looks kinda meh, like that Stallone one with three shells. Except that one had cute little Sandra Bullock. This one doesn't. Maybe casting director was gay and had no taste in women. Seriously, what type of guy do women in this film appeal to? Certainly not me.CGI is pretty bad. Looks more like badly done 80's than 1995.Writing was terrible.Not a single memorable scene.Oh, and its anti-white racist. Near beginning there is scene where entire prison is supposedly white guys cheering some racist to kill Denzel. Give me a break. Much more likely scenario would be 90% prison population being black and poor, so usually racist, cheering Denzel to kill the white guy. Thats just what reality is like.Movie sucked.

Just when you think you have seen the last of a movie, the unimaginative producers gather enough cash to re-make a film which has already been seen. In 1991, with John Lithgow playing the heavy, Denzel Washington was the puppet in a movie called 'Ricochet.' It is now five years later and once again Mr. Washington is taken for a violent ride in this Brett Leonard film called " Virtuosity. " Writer Eric Bernt has reached into his fertile imagination and created a Virtual Frankstein called SID 6.7 (Russell Crowe). The story is that under computer expert, Lindenmeyer (Stephen Spinella) a creative genius, a super criminal called SID, once confined within a virtual world has escaped. With Police Chief Cochran (William Forsythe, finally playing a Good-guy), oversees, Lt. Parker Barnes, (Denzel Washington) a former detective as he sets out to recapture an impervious maniacal Android. Each place Sid arrives at, he creates fears, destruction, mounting murders and general mayhem. It's up to Barnes to capture or destroy SID before he lays waste to the city. With Louise Fletcher and Kelly Lynch in supporting roles, this movie is from start to finish a real shoot-em-up action and excitement offering. Perhaps now with its completion we might have an opening for NEW ideas and give Mr, Washington a real challenging role. ****

Bad acting, bad script. I saw this movie because it was the only thing in the theater at the time that seemed interesting. We did not have air conditioning in the house at the the time and selected this movie to escape the heat. This was the only reason for staying.This movie was so boring I feel a sleep. I asked the person I went with what I had missed and learned it was really nothing I had missed at all.Denzel Washtingon can act just the direction and script he was given was sorely lacking, though if you liked this move then you will need to see the Joan Collin's version of Empire of the Ants.Supposedly to be so advance with technology the effects are bad and very unbelievable. 1977 Star Wars (IV A New Hope) has better effects than this.Not worth the time.