The Film Studio Synopsis: The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress “Simone” to sub for the star–the first totally believable synthetic actress. The “actress” becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she’s a real person. However, as Simone’s fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world.
The Good: The concept is quite good and gets off to a great start.
The Bad: Everything after the film gets off to its great start. It falls flat even though Pacino hits his part out of the ballpark. The end drops off completely.
Frankly: Writer/Director Andrew Niccol could have made his point simply that Hollywood is dying a slow death of its stars and anything real. But he has to keep at it just in case we haven’t figured it out. If you get hit once you feel it and learn, but when you get hit ten or so times you start to get pretty damn annoyed.
+ charlie craine
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