Denzel Washington, Kelly Lynch, Louise Fletcher

He's a composite of some 200 personalities, each and every one a notorious killer. He's Sid 6.7, a virtual reality creation designed to put L.A. police officers to the test. But Sid isn't playing game...( read more  read more... )s anymore. He's escaped the bounds of cyberspace. And if you think he's unconquerable in the world of bits and bytes, wait till you see what Sid has in store for a world of flesh and blood. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square off on opposite sides of the law and on both sides of reality in this thunderous cyber-age thriller from the director of The Lawnmower Man. Crowe (L.A. Confidential) plays Sid: Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous - and able to take a licking and keep on kicking because he can regenerate his silicon-based body parts. Washington portrays Parker Barnes, a Los Angeles cop who once took the law into his own hands... and now carries the fate of the city in them. It's his job to shut Sid down. But how do you stop the virtually unstoppable?

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R, 105 min.

Directed by: Brett Leonard

Release Date: August 4, 1995

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DVD Release Date: May 25, 1999

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  • September 24, 2009
    Verging on ?So bad, it?s quite good? territory!
  • September 11, 2009
    A little too Sci-fi for me in that there were gadgets and effects for gadgets and effects sake. Personally I think this film is way below the standard of the acting capabilities of both Washington and Crowe.

    It fails completely in the excitement area.
  • December 17, 2008
    Total guilty pleasure. Crowe needs to play psychos more often.
  • April 25, 2008
    a dynamic duo with washington and crowe teaming up. a solid and underrated sci-fi flick.
  • November 21, 2007
    Oh man, the kind of cheesy bad-but-ocasionally-fun flicks that hollywood wouldn't dare to do these days. Crowe was actually fun to watch, instead of annoying as he usually is. The concept is actually not that bad, is just very poorly made.

    This also reminds me of that sci/fi m...( read more)ovie with Mick Jagger and Emilio Stevez. Another cinematic disaster that you just can't believe hollywood dared to make.
  • October 12, 2009
    Denzil makes good copy, but even so I never watch this the whole way through.
  • October 8, 2009
    wow what a movie 2 watch.....i have just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch............its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie.....i think that denzel washington, kelly lynch, louise fletcher, russell crowe, stephen spi...( read more)nella, william forsythe play good roles/parts throughout this movie......i think that the director of this thriller/action/adventure/drama movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie.....i think that the special effects throughout this movie were pretty kewl throughout this movie.....this is a good movie 2 watch n its enjoyable
  • September 14, 2009
    Cyberpunk will never die!
  • August 13, 2009
    I havent seen this in awhile but fromwhat I remember it was active.
  • July 21, 2009
    Pretty interesting movie. Nothing great but it was better than okay.

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  • IRONMANBLAST
    October 4, 2007
    This Movie Kicked ass Great Concept
    Did what Johnny mNemonic and Demolition man could not mixed with a lil Lawnmower Man
    Id say Aquired Taste and ID also say Yumm!

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