A sentient android learns karate in first Vice trailer
In a cinemascape that includes quiet-yet-intriguing entries into the android sci-fi genre like Blade Runner, the recently released Automata, and the upcoming Ex Machina, it’s hard to buy into Bruce Willis’ new film Vice. The first trailer for the film popped up this week, and it unfortunately looks like a paint-by-numbers piece of android-infused fiction. An “artificial” gains unexpected sentience and threatens to topple the human utopia house of cards she was once a part of. It’s nothing necessarily new, so here’s hoping it’ll be enjoyable in its own way.
Watch the first trailer for Vice after the jump.
Again, there’s a lot of re-hashing going on here, which is definitely a mixed bag. The trailer positions the film only slightly above B-movie blandness, and it looks more like The Machine (a movie I didn’t enjoy) than it does Ex Machina (a movie I’m looking forward to).
Here’s a plot synopsis for Vice to fill us in on the details:
Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian’s mercenaries and a cop who is hell-bent on shutting down Vice, and stopping the violence once and for all.
Vice star Bruce Willis, Thomas Jane, Ambyr Childers, Tyler J. Olson, and Bryan Greenberg. The movie makes its way the theaters and iTunes on January 16, 2015.
