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Virtuosity is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Brett Leonard. The movie tells the story of a virtual reality villain's successful attempt to escape into the "real world." Sid 6.7, the villain program portrayed by [[Russell Crowe]], is 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 arround Los Angeles, California.

** Not really an aversion, though. He's in prison for {{spoiler|killing a reporter and her cameraman who were interviewing domestic terrorist Matthew Grimes in his own lair - ''while he was using Barnes' wife and child as bait for a trap.'' The trap kills both Barnes' ladies, and blows off his arm. He then goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], mowing down Grimes along with his entire gang. '''Then the bitch and her lackey jump from behind a corner to document everything, swinging the camera like a gun.''' Barnes, mistaking them for more of Grimes' gang, swings around and blows them away. Well, the jury must have thought that it was somewhat defensible - he only got twenty years for a double manslaughter that was '''''caught on tape'''''.}} Barnes doesn't seem to care one way or the other, spending most of his time in solitary in an [[Angst Coma]], [[Room Full of Crazy|covering it in chalk drawings]] {{spoiler|just like his daughter's}}... except when the guards stuff him in general population so they can enjoy [[Gladiator Games]].

* [[Emoticon]]: Barnes locates Sid in the training program through the clue left on the side of one building.

* [[Everything Is Online]]: How Sid seems to know so much about Parker, Madison, etc.

* [[Forgotten Fallen Friend]]: {{spoiler|Billy is pretty much forgotten about by Parker after Lindenmeyer clubs him to death rather brutally.}}

* [[Mix-and-Match Man]]: Sid 6.7 is created from the personalities of 183 criminals. And an orchestra director.

* [[Murder.Com]]: Sid takes over a TV studio and announces "Death TV", where the viewers get to vote by telephone on which member(s) of the studio audience he kills and how he does it.

* [[Nanomachines]]: What Sid is made up of in the real world.

* [[Neck Snap]]: When one guy in the TV shop insists on watching the fighting tournament, Sid 6.7 twists his neck around.

* [[Not So Different]]: Sid does a version of this speech over the radio to Barnes and Dr. Carter while being chased.

** He also tries to do a version of this speech to ''the entire human race.''

*** He kind of has a point - nothing about him is programmed, everything is copied from human behavior, albeit that of psychotic criminals.

* [[Number of the Beast]]: Sid 6.7's version number is supposedly an oblique reference to 666. It's 6.66 rounded to one decimal place.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Glass for Sid 6.7, which he uses to regenerate lost body parts. Goes to ridiculous extremes when he starts eating shards of broken windshield like Halloween candy.

* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: Not a straight example - the system is designed to train cops in combat situations, similar to the US Army's [[Real Life]] Force XXI program. The problem is that different people worked on different parts of the system - and didn't understand how Lindenmeyer's maniacal AI could abuse it. [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|The Dev Team Thought of ALMOST Everything]] - they programmed in non-lethal simulations of being shot, bludgeoned and even ''bitten'' - but when Sid decided to try electrocuting someone, the poor chump's brain overloaded.

 

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