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LETAC would like to train police officers by putting them in full-sensory simulation VR with SID, the idea being that if the cops in the virtual reality simulator can catch him, they can catch anyone. First they must prove the concept works, which they decide to do using prisoners as test subjects. While two of the prisoners are inside virtual reality, SID, having the accumulated knowledge of 200 killers, has figured out how to raise the neural sensitivity calibrations in the VR program, causing the pain being received to affect real life. SID kills one of the two prisoner-turned-temporary-police officers by torture through [[electric shock|electrocution]] - a technique not available as one of his programmed methods of killing. The aftermath leaves the prisoner dead of severe, concentrated seizures to the major [[pain receptor]]s of the brain. The other participant, who is taken out of VR before SID finishes him off, is left temporarily traumatized.
LETAC would like to train police officers by putting them in full-sensory simulation VR with SID, the idea being that if the cops in the virtual reality simulator can catch him, they can catch anyone. First they must prove the concept works, which they decide to do using prisoners as test subjects. While two of the prisoners are inside virtual reality, SID, having the accumulated knowledge of 200 killers, has figured out how to raise the neural sensitivity calibrations in the VR program, causing the pain being received to affect real life. SID kills one of the two prisoner-turned-temporary-police officers by torture through [[electric shock|electrocution]] - a technique not available as one of his programmed methods of killing. The aftermath leaves the prisoner dead of severe, concentrated seizures to the major [[pain receptor]]s of the brain. The other participant, who is taken out of VR before SID finishes him off, is left temporarily traumatized.


Witnessing the catastrophe, Commissioner Elizabeth Deane, the director overseeing the SID project, orders it shut down. Later, Lindenmeyer gravely tells his 'masterpiece' his fate. SID, in turn, tells Lindenmeyer an alternative: tricking Clyde Reilly, a befriended coworker at LETAC, into turning SID's persona into a regenerating android (better known as a 'nanotech synthetic organism'), by making him think he iss actually generating the persona and form of a sexy virtual [[prostitute]], Sheila 3.2. Less than 30 seconds after the ultimate madman is released into our world, Reilly becomes SID's first victim. Now in the real world, he is free of all behavioral limits he previously had in virtual reality, gaining the ability to now grow on his own - rewriting and improving his own programming.
Witnessing the catastrophe, Commissioner Elizabeth Deane, the director overseeing the SID project, orders it shut down. Later, Lindenmeyer gravely tells his 'masterpiece' his fate. SID, in turn, tells Lindenmeyer an alternative: tricking Clyde Reilly, a befriended coworker at LETAC, into turning SID's persona into a regenerating android (better known as a 'nanotech synthetic organism'), by making him think he is actually generating the persona and form of a sexy virtual [[prostitute]], Sheila 3.2. Less than 30 seconds after the ultimate madman is released into our world, Reilly becomes SID's first victim. Now in the real world, he is free of all behavioral limits he previously had in virtual reality, gaining the ability to now grow on his own - rewriting and improving his own programming.


Barnes ultimately tracks down SID and manages to damage his body severely by causing it to be impaled on a lot of glass. Before SID can regenerate, Barnes removes his core, killing his body, but SID has kidnapped Dr. Madison Carter's daughter. In the meantime Carter has managed to capture Lindenmeyer and force him to help them set up a simulation that causes SID to think he won instead of being impaled and reveal where her daughter is. SID tries to kill Barnes in the virtual world and Lindenmeyer helps him, but Lindenmyer is killed by Carter who frees Barnes. Barnes rescues her daughter and then tosses SID's core drive off a rooftop where it is run over by police cars on the road below, destroying it.
Barnes ultimately tracks down SID and manages to damage his body severely by causing it to be impaled on a lot of glass. Before SID can regenerate, Barnes removes his core, killing his body, but SID has kidnapped Dr. Madison Carter's daughter. In the meantime Carter has managed to capture Lindenmeyer and force him to help them set up a simulation that causes SID to think he won instead of being impaled and reveal where her daughter is. SID tries to kill Barnes in the virtual world and Lindenmeyer helps him, but Lindenmyer is killed by Carter who frees Barnes. Barnes rescues her daughter and then tosses SID's core drive off a rooftop where it is run over by police cars on the road below, destroying it.

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This article is about the film. For the term as it refers to artistic or musical ability, see virtuoso.
For a person who is virtuous, see virtue.
Virtuosity
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBrett Leonard
Written byEric Bernt
Produced byGary Lucchesi
StarringDenzel Washington
Russell Crowe[1]
Music byChristopher Young
Peter Gabriel
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
August 4, 1995
Running time
106 min.
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30,000,000 (estimated)
Box office$24,047,675[2]

Virtuosity is a 1995 American science fiction 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.[1]

Plot

Programmer Dr. Darrel Lindenmeyer of the Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) 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 (sped up in virtual reality), having the killers in his subconscious raise him and guide him in the ways of the world. The killers emerge through the 50 terabyte, self-evolving neural network that is SID through a type of Multiple Personality Disorder, giving way to the stronger personalities depending on each situation.

LETAC would like to train police officers by putting them in full-sensory simulation VR with SID, the idea being that if the cops in the virtual reality simulator can catch him, they can catch anyone. First they must prove the concept works, which they decide to do using prisoners as test subjects. While two of the prisoners are inside virtual reality, SID, having the accumulated knowledge of 200 killers, has figured out how to raise the neural sensitivity calibrations in the VR program, causing the pain being received to affect real life. SID kills one of the two prisoner-turned-temporary-police officers by torture through electrocution - a technique not available as one of his programmed methods of killing. The aftermath leaves the prisoner dead of severe, concentrated seizures to the major pain receptors of the brain. The other participant, who is taken out of VR before SID finishes him off, is left temporarily traumatized.

Witnessing the catastrophe, Commissioner Elizabeth Deane, the director overseeing the SID project, orders it shut down. Later, Lindenmeyer gravely tells his 'masterpiece' his fate. SID, in turn, tells Lindenmeyer an alternative: tricking Clyde Reilly, a befriended coworker at LETAC, into turning SID's persona into a regenerating android (better known as a 'nanotech synthetic organism'), by making him think he is actually generating the persona and form of a sexy virtual prostitute, Sheila 3.2. Less than 30 seconds after the ultimate madman is released into our world, Reilly becomes SID's first victim. Now in the real world, he is free of all behavioral limits he previously had in virtual reality, gaining the ability to now grow on his own - rewriting and improving his own programming.

Barnes ultimately tracks down SID and manages to damage his body severely by causing it to be impaled on a lot of glass. Before SID can regenerate, Barnes removes his core, killing his body, but SID has kidnapped Dr. Madison Carter's daughter. In the meantime Carter has managed to capture Lindenmeyer and force him to help them set up a simulation that causes SID to think he won instead of being impaled and reveal where her daughter is. SID tries to kill Barnes in the virtual world and Lindenmeyer helps him, but Lindenmyer is killed by Carter who frees Barnes. Barnes rescues her daughter and then tosses SID's core drive off a rooftop where it is run over by police cars on the road below, destroying it.

Cast

Cast (in credits order)

References

  1. ^ a b "Virtuosity - Cast, Crew, Director and Awards - NYTimes.com". Movies.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  2. ^ "Virtuosity (1995)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
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