About this episode

The episode covers the 1995 sci-fi thriller 'VIRTUOSITY' and discusses its themes and critiques.

This week we cover the 1995 sci-fi thriller - VIRTUOSITY! A former cop who has been imprisoned for murdering the psychopath who killed his family, Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington) is recruited to test out a new virtual-reality program where the goal is to apprehend a computer-generated being called SID 6.7 (Russell Crowe), who has been modeled on hundreds of deranged criminals. When SID manages to escape into the real world, Barnes must capture or destroy him before the soulless entity can go on a killing spree. Hear our take on the film and on the critique of SISKEL AND EBERT. SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Visit thecultworthy.com Visit https://www.themoviewire.com Video: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony

People in this episode

Hosts: Antonio Palacios, Justin Henson

Topics covered

• sci-fi
• thriller
• virtual reality
• film critique
• Denzel Washington
• Russell Crowe

Keywords

• VIRTUOSITY
• Denzel Washington
• Russell Crowe
• sci-fi thriller
• virtual reality
• film critique

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SISKEL AND EBERT, thecultworthy.com, themoviewire.com, BACK 2 THE BALCONY

Books & works: VIRTUOSITY

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