Vice
Lionsgate | Release Date: January 16, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
17
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 14 Critic Reviews
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2
Negative:
12
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
New York PostKyle SmithJan 16, 2015
An intriguing sci-fi thriller, but in the end it doesn’t do enough with its ideas. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJan 15, 2015
Bad doesn’t have to mean boring. Case in point: Vice, a bargain-bin high-concept sci-fi thriller full of Joel Schumacher-esque canted Steadicam moves, leaden expository dialogue, and cheap fluorescents-glued-to-the-wall sets. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJan 15, 2015
A loud, dopey chase film filled with substandard shootouts. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 14, 2015
Vice is a low-budget sci-fi thriller that borrows heavily from “Blade Runner” and “Westworld,” and serves as an answer to the question “How much movie can you get when you shoot your $10 million film in Mobile, Alabama? The answer is, quite a lot — with modernist buildings, striking control room sets and the city’s docks serving as a backdrop. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJan 14, 2015
Everything about Vice feels like recycled goods. It's basically "Westworld" meets "Blade Runner" programmed by glitchy filmmaking replicators. Read full review
30
Village VoiceChris PackhamJan 13, 2015
The film unspools with a momentum that mitigates its artless brutality, kinda, but it's a high-pressure firehose of stupid. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJan 16, 2015
Some will dismiss it by saying it’s so ineffective as to never really aggravate critical faculties, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a complete waste of time and talent as well. Read full review
20
VarietyJustin ChangJan 20, 2015
Conveying zero grit, atmosphere or texture (exterior shots are repetitively bathed in cobalt blue), and gathering little in the way of force or dramatic momentum, “Vice” barely engages with its potential ideas beyond the most blandly expository, bullet-ridden level. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJan 17, 2015
Perhaps aware of how little its audience might pay attention to anything not running, fired off or blown up, the movie's characters explain themselves regularly. Willis, meanwhile, mutters his executive-suite-villain lines as if he's afraid of waking you. Read full review
20
The DissolveNathan RabinJan 15, 2015
Perversely low-budget and oddly devoid of imagination, Vice seems less like a proper film than a bargain-basement SyFy pilot, shot on the cheap and drafting off Willis and Jane’s star power. It’s about androids aching to be real, but it doesn’t have an ounce of genuine humanity in its tin heart. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineClayton DillardJan 12, 2015
Vice takes the basic premise from 1973's Westworld and morphs it into an incoherent slog. Read full review
0
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJan 15, 2015
Evidencing more bullets than brains, Vice — a bit of ephemeral science-fiction twaddle directed by Brian A. Miller — has absolutely nothing to recommend it. Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJan 15, 2015
Here’s hoping Bruce Willis bought something special with whatever cash he earned from this pointless, brutally ugly rehash of 1973’s “Westworld.” Read full review
0
The PlaylistOktay Ege KozakJan 15, 2015
Dull and lifeless, Vice fails on the promise of even its lowest ambitions. Read full review
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