Review of Tokyo Vice Full Movie: Based on the best-selling memoir "Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan" by Jake Adelstein, the film centers around the budding American journalist, played by Radcliffe who travels to Japan in search of peace and tranquillity but instead is pulled into Tokyo’s dark underbelly where murder and corruption rule.
When his final scoop brings him face to face with a powerful Yakuza boss, the threat of death to him and his loved one's forces Jake to fight back with every tool at his disposal. According to this drivel, every man is a sadist at heart and only dream of raping and killing. I get it is supposed to be a sci-fi thriller, but it really gets tiresome fast. From the guests at Willis facility to the techs and even random bar patrons, all seem to get off on being cruel to "women" regardless if they know they are robots or not. Willis clearly did this solely for the paycheck, for which I hope he got paid plenty because this movie is bad, bad, bad. No redeeming qualities whatsoever, watch the original Westworld instead, or the new tv series, which are a lot better
I literally just created an account here solely to get on here and complain about how bad this movie was. The movie was 90 minutes long but I honestly don't think anything actually happened. I remember a girl getting shot - I think. Thomas Jane looks like a grease head idiot the whole time and sounds a little dumber every time he delivers his next line. Dialogue evidently was written by a 6th grader who just saw his first Schwarzenegger movie. Half the flick is guys with automatic future guns missing an unarmed robot girl from legitimately 5-10 feet away. So bad, guys.
The characters are uni-dimensional, the acting mediocre and - worst of all - the movie is built on an appealing concept, but it doesn't even start to dive into it, it doesn't present an interesting situation involving the "artificial" nor point out anything about controversial themes like cloning, artificial intelligence or heavy bio-engineering.
What sounds like a cheap version of Gamer actually ends up being more akin to another Bruce Willis film, "Surrogates". And just like Surrogates, Vice is garbage. Its runtime is thankfully short (96 minutes) but the dialogue is frequently painful and the story is more holes than substance. If trying really hard to mail it in wasn't an oxymoron, I'd say that's what Willis is mostly up to these days, and Vice is no exception, he's useless, most everyone else is clearly amateur, only Thomas Jane brings even one iota of talent to the piece and even then he is pretty heavily hammed down by the script. I suppose an argument could be made that Charlotte Kirk was more than tolerable, though this is quite likely thanks to her minor role. All that trash talking aside though, I've been far more bored in far bigger movies, so I guess it's all point of reference.
Good cast, good effects buts that's all that's good in this film. The acting is very bad only Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane are holding it together. The story is doesn't really explain it's self that while and because of this it doesn't make much sense ever which makes the film very hard to follow and because of the plane and wooden acting, the film is really dull as it is unable to hold much suspense. Another reason is a question why is Bruce Willis in this film in my option Bruce Willis is following the same path Nicolas Cage took and if Bruce Willis doesn't start making good films soon he will become a very unpopular actor, and plus he is only in the film to promote it and even that didn't save it.
This seemed like a cheap movie about a place, created by Bruce Willis, which has human-like robots. Real humans go to the resort to play out their fantasies but one of the robots starts to ask questions about her strange surroundings and she ends up escaping the resort. Bruce Willis sends out a team to retrieve the robot but she manages to find her true creator who helps her to get away from her controllers. With the help of a cop who believes that nothing good can come out of the robots, they come together to take down Vice and it's creator. This is another straight to DVD movie from Bruce Willis which really seemed like it didn't have that much money behind it. The storyline isn't that bad but the acting isn't that great and you can tell that Bruce Willis wasn't giving his all. The action scenes weren't that great because the baddies seemed to shoot around the goodies so it was a bit pointless. Anyway, it's watchable because of the intensity throughout the movie but it really could have done with a top director. Watchable but not that great!
Bruce Willis has to be one of the top actors for screen charisma but it really does show when he's not giving 100%. In this film he's just walking around, chatting computer jargon most of the time and he looked out of place next to the C class actors but it's always good to see him in a film. I wasn't that impressed with his latest two films, Sin films 2 or the Prince but with 10 movies in the pipeline, which includes one from Woody Allen, I hope that he hits Die Hard form again. The director, Brian Miller, has only made 6 movies in his career which includes the Outsider, the Prince, and Officer Down so he hasn't really got any experience when it comes to big budget movies. He's lucky to have worked with Willis twice but he really hasn't got the best out of him.
I literally just created an account here solely to get on here and complain about how bad this movie was. The movie was 90 minutes long but I honestly don't think anything actually happened. I remember a girl getting shot - I think. Thomas Jane looks like a grease head idiot the whole time and sounds a little dumber every time he delivers his next line. Dialogue evidently was written by a 6th grader who just saw his first Schwarzenegger movie. Half the flick is guys with automatic future guns missing an unarmed robot girl from legitimately 5-10 feet away. So bad, guys.
What sounds like a cheap version of Gamer actually ends up being more akin to another Bruce Willis film, "Surrogates". And just like Surrogates, Vice is garbage. Its runtime is thankfully short (96 minutes) but the dialogue is frequently painful and the story is more holes than substance. If trying really hard to mail it in wasn't an oxymoron, I'd say that's what Willis is mostly up to these days, and Vice is no exception, he's useless, most everyone else is clearly amateur, only Thomas Jane brings even one iota of talent to the piece and even then he is pretty heavily hammed down by the script. I suppose an argument could be made that Charlotte Kirk was more than tolerable, though this is quite likely thanks to her minor role. All that trash talking aside though, I've been far more bored in far bigger movies, so I guess it's all point of reference.
This seemed like a cheap movie about a place, created by Bruce Willis, which has human-like robots. Real humans go to the resort to play out their fantasies but one of the robots starts to ask questions about her strange surroundings and she ends up escaping the resort. Bruce Willis sends out a team to retrieve the robot but she manages to find her true creator who helps her to get away from her controllers. With the help of a cop who believes that nothing good can come out of the robots, they come together to take down Vice and it's creator. This is another straight to DVD movie from Bruce Willis which really seemed like it didn't have that much money behind it. The storyline isn't that bad but the acting isn't that great and you can tell that Bruce Willis wasn't giving his all. The action scenes weren't that great because the baddies seemed to shoot around the goodies so it was a bit pointless. Anyway, it's watchable because of the intensity throughout the movie but it really could have done with a top director. Watchable but not that great!
Bruce Willis has to be one of the top actors for screen charisma but it really does show when he's not giving 100%. In this film he's just walking around, chatting computer jargon most of the time and he looked out of place next to the C class actors but it's always good to see him in a film. I wasn't that impressed with his latest two films, Sin films 2 or the Prince but with 10 movies in the pipeline, which includes one from Woody Allen, I hope that he hits Die Hard form again. The director, Brian Miller, has only made 6 movies in his career which includes the Outsider, the Prince, and Officer Down so he hasn't really got any experience when it comes to big budget movies. He's lucky to have worked with Willis twice but he really hasn't got the best out of him.
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