Vice 2015

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Recombining elements of "Blade Runner," "Strange Days" and "A.I." makes Bruce Willis' "Vice" an intriguing sci-fi thriller, but in the end it doesn't do enough with its ideas. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Bruce Willis plays the CEO of a futuristic resort where perfectly human-looking androids exist to fulfill their clients' deepest, darkest desires - none of which, it can safely be said, involve watching movies as relentlessly mediocre as this one. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: 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 more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Even if you don't own a calendar, one look at this dreary, derivative sci-fi thriller would tell you it's January. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: "Vice" is "Blade Runner" on the cheap and minus the imagination. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Here's hoping Bruce Willis bought something special with whatever cash he earned from this pointless, brutally ugly rehash of 1973's "Westworld." Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: 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 more

Chris Packham, Village Voice: The film unspools with a momentum that mitigates its artless brutality, kinda, but it's a high-pressure firehose of stupid. Read more