I'm not sure what I expected here. The dark poster and sparse description on AmazonPrime led me to believe it would be some kind of goofy 90s cyberpunk horror/thriller along the lines of The Lawnmower Man.
What I got instead was an incredibly goofy, extremely low budget simulated softcore porn type thing. It opens up with an extremely early-90s feel and bad CG and overly dramatic sci-fi music reminiscent of "Babylon 5" which feels like a complete lie as to the actual tone and plot of the film.
The plot is some people develop a virtual reality AI woman to play with and have sex with whoever purchases the software to use. Inexplicably, the woman, called "Virtue" (as in Virtual) kills two of the test guys, and the project is e-assigned to John Lewis, who is married to an attractive woman and has a baby and is thus seemingly immune to Virtue's clumsy flirtation attempts.
There's lots of bare breasts, particularly as Virtue starts switching through various bodies to tempt John with (all portrayed by different women), but none of it is any more than you'd see in an R-rated film. There's also several sex scenes which are similarly not hard enough to stray from a standard R-rating. The number of these tame sex scenes might be excessive for a standard R, but they come across more as tedious than in any way titilating or compelling.
The acting is very bad and the plot is very dumb and suffers from a last minute twist which makes no sense.
While I grew up understanding the early-mid days of the internet and the relative scarcity of pornography compared to today, I am very certain that even as early on as 1998 they had actual pornography, hardcore and softcore, on video and on HBO and on the Spice channel and the likes.
As such, I have no idea who or what this film is for. It's not sexual enough to be a softcore porn, and it's so uninspired and pointless everywhere else (acting, directing, writing, etc) to justify watching.
What I got instead was an incredibly goofy, extremely low budget simulated softcore porn type thing. It opens up with an extremely early-90s feel and bad CG and overly dramatic sci-fi music reminiscent of "Babylon 5" which feels like a complete lie as to the actual tone and plot of the film.
The plot is some people develop a virtual reality AI woman to play with and have sex with whoever purchases the software to use. Inexplicably, the woman, called "Virtue" (as in Virtual) kills two of the test guys, and the project is e-assigned to John Lewis, who is married to an attractive woman and has a baby and is thus seemingly immune to Virtue's clumsy flirtation attempts.
There's lots of bare breasts, particularly as Virtue starts switching through various bodies to tempt John with (all portrayed by different women), but none of it is any more than you'd see in an R-rated film. There's also several sex scenes which are similarly not hard enough to stray from a standard R-rating. The number of these tame sex scenes might be excessive for a standard R, but they come across more as tedious than in any way titilating or compelling.
The acting is very bad and the plot is very dumb and suffers from a last minute twist which makes no sense.
While I grew up understanding the early-mid days of the internet and the relative scarcity of pornography compared to today, I am very certain that even as early on as 1998 they had actual pornography, hardcore and softcore, on video and on HBO and on the Spice channel and the likes.
As such, I have no idea who or what this film is for. It's not sexual enough to be a softcore porn, and it's so uninspired and pointless everywhere else (acting, directing, writing, etc) to justify watching.