Virtuosity is a 1995 techno-thriller film directed by Brett Leonard. The movie tells the story of a virtual villain's successful attempt to escape into the "real world". SID 6.7, the villain program portrayed by Russell Crowe, is eventually transplanted into an android body and escapes. Parker Barnes, a reinstated police officer played by Denzel Washington, is given the chance to catch him. The film was shot in and around Los Angeles, California. Programmer Dr. Darrel Lindenmeyer of the Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and... Dangerous virtual reality entity amalgamation of 200 notorious criminal personalities: mass murderers, serial killers, and megalomaniacs. Programmed using genetic algorithms, each of the 200 killers in SID holds the memories, personality/behavioral traits, and emotional composition of the original. Being far too complex to design, Lindenmeyer has SID's program begin with him as a child , having the killers in his subconscious raise him and guide him in the ways of the world.
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| Release date: | August 4, 1995 |
| Directed by: | Brett Leonard |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 106 Minutes |
| Producer: | Gary Lucchesi, Gary Levinsohn, Tom Rosenberg, Mark Gordon, James Jacks, Adam Schroeder |
| Editor: | Conrad Buff |
| Music by: | Peter Gabriel, Christopher Young |
| Cinematography: | Gale Tattersall |
| Screenplay by: | Eric Bernt |
| Estimated budget: | $30,000,000 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Thriller, Action |