Starring
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch
Denzel Washington stars as jailed former cop Parker Barnes who acts as a volunteer to test out a new Virtual Reality police training program.
Russell Crowe stars as SID 6.7, a serial killer inside the simulation, participants must pursue. But the game's neural stimulus has been set too high and when SID kills Barnes's co-volunteer inside the simulation, the shock kills him in real life. The program is ordered shut down.
However, creator Daryl Lindenmeyer is too attached to the simulation and fools a lab tech into incarnating the SID chip inside a nanotech android body. In its nanotech body, SID immediately breaks out of the laboratory and goes on a killing spree. The police free Barnes in return for his help, since he has had the most experience dealing with SID.
But then Barnes discovers that SID has been created with artificial intelligence and a personality that is a hybrid of 180 serial killer profiles. And as he starts tracking SID, the personality of Matthew Grimes, the killer that slaughtered Barnes's wife and daughter, rises to the surface and begins to relish the opportunity for revenge.
Directed by
Brett Leonard