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- 2015
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 36 m
- 2015
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 36 m
Summary Julian Michaels (Bruce Willis) has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial (Ambyr Childers) becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's ...
Directed By: Brian A. Miller
Written By: Andre Fabrizio, Jeremy Passmore
- 2015
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 36 m
- 2015
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 36 m
Vice
17
1.8
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Summary Julian Michaels (Bruce Willis) has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial (Ambyr Childers) becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's ...
Directed By: Brian A. Miller
Written By: Andre Fabrizio, Jeremy Passmore
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
17
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
14% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
86% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
17
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
14% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
86% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
An intriguing sci-fi thriller, but in the end it doesn’t do enough with its ideas.
A loud, dopey chase film filled with substandard shootouts.
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 82 User Ratings
1.8
7% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
16% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
77% Negative
63 Ratings
63 Ratings
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 82 User Ratings
1.8
7% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
16% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
77% Negative
63 Ratings
63 Ratings
This is a very good watch ... the plot rolls on nicely and the small number of main characters are relatable enough for an action scifi. I had no problem watching it through to the end and feeling entertained through out.
Lets put this movie into perspective. It was a good watch ... It's entertaining and deep down it has some interesting thought provoking issues. So it's not a mega massive box office smash - but lets be honest those generic big budget roll outs are a waste of space. This film cost around $10 million to make. John Carpenter cost $263 million. I'd rather have the option of 30 of these types of films than one of the other. Director Brian Miller told a good story.
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Everything about Vice feels like recycled goods. It's basically "Westworld" meets "Blade Runner" programmed by glitchy filmmaking replicators.
Conveying zero grit, atmosphere or texture (exterior shots are repetitively bathed in cobalt blue), and gathering little in the way of force or dramatic momentum, “Vice” barely engages with its potential ideas beyond the most blandly expository, bullet-ridden level.
Perversely low-budget and oddly devoid of imagination, Vice seems less like a proper film than a bargain-basement SyFy pilot, shot on the cheap and drafting off Willis and Jane’s star power. It’s about androids aching to be real, but it doesn’t have an ounce of genuine humanity in its tin heart.
Evidencing more bullets than brains, Vice — a bit of ephemeral science-fiction twaddle directed by Brian A. Miller — has absolutely nothing to recommend it.
Dull and lifeless, Vice fails on the promise of even its lowest ambitions.
Great concept but very weak script, one time watch and not as bad as everyone says it is.
Watch it online for free: ****/watch-2756697-Vice-online-free
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The premise, although not entirely original, was serviceable enough to be considered a fun sci-fi romp. Unfortunately, Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane were less than interested and the philosophical questions the film poses are squandered with a lackluster second half.
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I'm glad there're others that share my opinion that this movie contains some merits. Is that a recommendation? Sadly, NO! I do like the 'Westworld' / 'Grand Theft Auto' nod, and if we had not seen countless other sci-fi movies that expanded upon the original concepts which gave us "modern sci-fi," this movie might be a bit more appreciated. I think the seemingly low production budget helped, since rather than portraying a billion dollar facility complete with holograms, white rooms, and marble toilets, the company in this movie looked like they were really trying to make a buck. The BEST theme in this movie is wether or or not I should care about the "replicants" and wether or not I should care about this movie! I appreciate it when movies don't "explain" things and just let them play out, and this movie pulls that off in some aspects, but also is guilty of one of the worst "explanation scenes" ever (I guess if you have not watched about 100 years worth of sci-fi over a period of about 40 years, you might need an explanation or two, though...). Ever since working on a script or two, I have been unable to view movies without asking myself and others; "Could you do better?" This movie is an anomoly that somehow pulled me through to the end. If you step back from the thousands of actions scenes you have seen, and realize that people CAN be really bad shots in real life, the portrayal has a sense of reality. Still really like Willis, still like Jane, and Childers is an amazingly beautiful woman. If you are a sci-fi connoisseur, or interested in getting a few dos and don'ts for making movies, watch it. My rating is based on pretending I have never seen another movie in my life.
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