Vice (2015 film)

Vice is a 2015 American science fiction action film directed by Brian A. Miller and written by Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore.

When one of the androids, Kelly (Childers), becomes sentient and escapes, she joins forces with police detective Roy Tedeschi (Jane) to bring Michaels down and destroy his resort.

A futuristic resort, Vice, offers visitors the opportunity to live out all their fantasies, no matter how violent or deviant, on sophisticated androids (referred to as "artificials").

Tedeschi believes that visitors to Vice become desensitized to violence and rape, pointing to the man he arrested as proof, and suspects that his department is taking bribes from the resort.

Vice CEO Julian Michaels orders Kelly immediately reactivated, as important clients are scheduled to arrive soon.

Alarmed by the trauma of reliving all her deaths and sexual assaults, Kelly breaks free of her restraints before her memories can be reset.

Believing a loose android could jeopardize this, he covers up the escape and blames the resort's brief shutdown on a terrorist attack.

Ordered again to stay away from Vice, Tedeschi is assigned to a series of homicides apparently performed by a professional mercenary.

They visit James for help and receive a virus which is programmed to restore androids' erased memories, resulting in chaos and the closure of Vice.

The website's critics consensus reads: "Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane are visibly bored by the dreary material in this sci-fi hodgepodge, proving that star power in service of a lousy script is no virtue.

[6] Justin Chang of Variety called it a "relentlessly mediocre" film that "barely engages with its potential ideas beyond the most blandly expository, bullet-ridden level".

Vishnevetsky wrote that although Jane's acting is not believable, it is fun to watch the bizarre mannerisms, comparing it to Gary Busey's off-kilter performances.