S1m0ne

Name: S1m0ne
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy
Released: August 23, 2002
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 49
Cast: Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Rachel Roberts

2002

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New Line Home Video | Release Date: August 23, 2002 | PG-13

Starring: Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Rachel Roberts

Summary: When his lead actress walks off the set, a disillusioned film producer (Pacino) creates a digital star who becomes an overnight sensation.

Director: Andrew Niccol

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 117 min

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Jack Mathews

Hilariously inventive Hollywood satire. Read full review

Steven Rea

For all its flaws, offers an enjoyable look at the machinations of moviedom and fame, and a look into a future where what is real and what isn't becomes scarily blurred. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Niccol gives audiences a very amusing puzzle about authenticity, fraud, and the uses and abuses of technology. That is a fine and funny feat. The very folks responsible for our obsession with celebrity will likely love it. And in loving it, they will no doubt let themselves off the hook. Read full review

James Berardinelli

The film is too light and juvenile to be viewed as some sort of darkly subversive satire in which the director is laughing at those of us who take it all semi-seriously. Read full review

Jonathan Foreman

Staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce. Read full review

Collin Levey

But for what it is, the film supplies enough laughs to bury most nagging existential questions.

Kenneth Turan

Such a tedious Hollywood farce, so unpleasantly glib and relentlessly shallow, that Pacino's excessive performance is not even the worst thing about it. Read full review

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Moby1682

May 3, 2016

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Simone is a hilarious, inventive satire on the inner workings of Hollywood. Al Pacino gives one of his most refined roles as an aging director who's movies have lost their popularity.

One day he meets a fan who is about to pass away in a week due to inoperable brain cancer. Al Pacino receives a package a week later. The package is a computer disc. The disc gives him the ability to create a

digital actress ! Once he creates Simone which means simulation one in the movie hinting that she is imaginary not a real person, he is set. His movies regain their momentum, he reconnects with his

daughter and wife and everything seems perfect.However when something feels too good to be true or everlasting it usually is. His creation backfires and he is almost arrested for the murder of Simone. He

attempts to dispose of the disc by dumping a trunk into an ocean. The disc is the only evidence Simone exists and that he isn't a murderer. When the police retrieve the trunk it is empty. In the end Victor Taransky is let off

of the charges because Victor's daughter is computer savvy. She discovers that the Simone program isn't erased on his computer and she restores the program. Then she has Simone release a public video

statement that she is alive and that Victor is innocent. There are also a few cameos in the movie by Jay Mohr, Winona Ryder and Rebecca Stamos from X-Men (Mystique character). A very satisfying movie with a

classic, brilliant performance from Al Pacino.… Expand

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Broyax

Mar 9, 2020

On a quelques idées ici et pas mal d'effets spéciaux dans cette comédie assez originale sur le processus créatif et plus généralement la tyrannie des apparences dans le "show bizness"...! mais on reste ici surtout dans le divertissement gentiment familial avec des petites parts de guimauveOn a quelques idées ici et pas mal d'effets spéciaux dans cette comédie assez originale sur le processus créatif et plus généralement la tyrannie des apparences dans le "show bizness"...! mais on reste ici surtout dans le divertissement gentiment familial avec des petites parts de guimauve pour tout le monde (et toute la famille gentille et ses bons sentiments nunuches...).

Al Pacino tire heureusement les marrons du feu avec le brio et la décontraction qu'on lui connaît dans le rôle du metteur en scène esseulé qui tourne des merdes pour les festivals de Cannes et de Sundance répartis selon les années paires et impaires pour qu'à chaque fois les cons aient toujours de la daube intello à bobos à "regarder" ! Al nous fait donc un mélange de Fellini et d'Almodovar avec un peu de Woody Allen dedans : un vrai putain de festival, surtout avec sa blonde numérisée que l'on dirait tout droit sortie d'une vieille pub Seat (Auto émocion !) que ce bon vieux Al pilote avec un prototype de Kinect...!

Quelques moments sont bien trouvés et assez drolatiques malgré de temps en temps une incrédulité de moins en moins évidente à masquer : le magicien d'Oz rame un peu avec son Pentium à l'image de ce scénario peu avare en péripéties mais qui s'égare un peu loin, parfois, à la limite de la bouffonnerie.

Finalement neuneu et souvent bêbête mais d'une bonne humeur omniprésente, Simone (ou Sim One) peut donner autant le sourire que la grimace au spectateur, pas mécontent mais pas ravi non plus...… Expand

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