Cast: Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen
Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert
Directed by Josef Rusnak
A computer
genius creates a company to invent a virtul world where people can
travel into, and which resembles 1937 America in detail. But while
going into his virtual world, he doscovers something important which
he details in a letter left in the virtual 1937. Shortly thereafter
he is murdered, and all evidence point to his assistant, leaving him
to enter the virtual world to find out not only who murdered his
boss, what what the secret is that was important to kill him
for.
A great
idea for a story, based on Daniel F. Galouye's novel SIMULACRON 3,
but unfortunately done much better by the bigger budget film, THE
MATRIX. The movie is a mixed bag, with genuinely intriguing concepts
but amateurish directing and acting can't maintain anything but
servicability to the story. With a better actors, and a less
predictable script, this film could have been great science fiction
given the terrific plot. As it stands, it's a disappointing missed
opportunity whose existence is "virtually" voided by far superior
stylizations of THE MATRIX.
Back to
Qwipster's Movie Reviews
<