Good movie but grossly overrated

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

I only started to watch this film because of Bruce Willis, one of my favorite actors. I gave it up after 20 minutes. It's a terrible film with amateurish acting and story line. I guess Bruce needs the money to get involved in something this embarrassing. Usually I can watch even bad sci-fi flics just for the imaginative ideas but this one was so bad I couldn't sit through it.

I'm checking the "spoiler" box, but nothing I say here is a surprise if you've ever seen an action movie before in your life.This movie had some potential. It brought up some serious issues: If people could act out their most evil fantasies -- rape and murder and so on -- in a way that no real person is harmed, would they then "get it out of their system" and be less likely to harm anyone in real life, or would they want bigger and bigger thrills and be more likely to harm someone in real life? The analogy to violent video games is obvious. If people created artificially intelligent robots, at what point should these robots be considered "people" with human rights? That one's been done before but they could have brought new thoughts to the table.But instead the movie very quickly devolves into one of those action movies where the violence doesn't even make sense. I can believe a story where poor and oppressed people with nothing to lose engage in desperate violence. I can believe a story where an intelligent person with wealth and status hatches a carefully-planned criminal plot. But I have a hard time believing a story where a supposedly intelligent person with wealth and status commits violent crimes with some lip service about protecting his wealth and status but where anyone with an IQ of 20 would realize that he has far more to lose by committing these crimes than any of his other problems. I'm sure a skilled writer could make the story believable by showing the rich person getting more and more desperate as things go against him, let us see his growing paranoia or whatever until he snaps. But there was zero attempt to explain the villain's totally irrational behavior here.In "Vice", there's a resort where, presumably for a large fee, people can act out their worst fantasies on robots, "killing" them, "raping" them, etc. Then one of the robots breaks out of its programming and escapes. At that point, absolutely zero harm has been done. As far as anyone in the world of this movie is concerned, it's the moral equivalent of an auto mechanic having a car roll out of the shop and into the street. In the case of the car or the robot, you'd have someone run out to get it back. If it did some damage or harmed someone, your insurance company pays up, and that would be the end of it. But in the movie, the owner of the resort sends armed men out to kill anyone who has seen the robot. They have a shoot-out with the police. How could he possibly expect to get away with this? Is his company such a bunch of yes-men that absolutely no one says, "Umm, before we become involved in a conspiracy to murder police officers, why don't we just call the authorities and tell them that one of our robots is malfunctioning and could they please help us track it down?" Then the hero, a police officer, decides he's going to destroy the resort. He gets a computer hacker friend to sabotage the robots so they start killing the guests of the resort. He then breaks in with a machine gun and starts shooting all the employees. Now I'm no legal expert, but no matter what crimes the owner of a company commits, I'm pretty sure the police are not allowed to go to his office and start killing all his employees and customers.The other illogic is barely worth mentioning. Like they have a tracking device on the robot. At one point someone disables the tracking device for her. Then they stay in the building where he disabled the tracking device for what appears to be hours. Despite the fact that she is in the exact same place where the tracking device last registered her, the villain doesn't have the vaguest idea where she is or where to start looking, until he gets a clue from a totally unrelated source. Because the tracking device is disabled.

The new Bruce Willis, i thought to give it a try. Bruce nowadays isn't too much in action flick, aging you know but now and then he pops up in Sci-Fi flicks. I found it rather weird to see that the story reminded me a lot of other flicks. But most of all Westworld (1973). The reason is simple, at Vice you can have your pleasures, if it is killing people or having a gangbang, its' all available but suddenly one of the robots doesn't react to a reboot. Guess what's coming. The robot turns against it's creature (Frankenstein anybody?)It's not that bad after all, Bruce is typical Bruce but there's no originality towards the story and most of the things are predictable. There's a bit of funny parts with the copper walking around especially at a sex club. Just not good enough to say it's mediocre.Gore 0/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0,5/5

The writing was so bad. Writers - Andre Fabrizio, Jeremy Passmore. They also wrote red dawn and san andreas which topped less than 3 stars, so yeah they aren't the best writers in town. Actor Thomas Jane literally has no brain. I believe a better actor could of put his own spin on it and made it at least a 4 star movie. Best part of the movie was Ambyr Childers. Acting wasn't that bad and she's easy to look at. If you love Sci-fi you will hate how crappy this movie is. spoiler: Disgruntled lack luster police pretty boy, Roy - (Thomas Jane) doesn't like Vice. Vice is, Julian Michaels - (Bruce Willis) playground of created humanoids in which disturbed womb born humans like to go to release some of their crazy fetishes, such as: killing, raping, eating people. You know the usual creepy crap psychotics like to do. Further created humaniod Kelly - (Ambyr Childers) escapes vice. She narrowly escapes her prison despite all of the security guards with multiple automatic weapons aimed at her and an rpg. Mellow drama in between. Roy catches robot and creator of robot whom dies. Roy and Robot team up to take down Vice. blah blah blah. Tuned out movie cause it's so..... boring. Robot wins freedom, woot!