Virtual Girl |
  • USA • 1998 • 84m •    • Directed by: Richard Gabai. • Starring: Charlie Curtis, Max Dixon, Miche Straube, Richard Gabai, Warren Draper, Cynthia Callendar, Scott Larson, Jeff Bowser, Kevin Isaacs, Robert Dorfmann, C. Paul Dempsey, Johnathan Gorman, Tom Forrest. • Music by: Larry Berliner, Michael Morrell.     While working on a sexually-themed virtual reality project, computer programmer John Lewis is shocked when the female character in the project comes on to him for real. When he spurns her advances, however, things turn unfortunately violent for him.
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Review:
John Lewis (Max Dixon) is a computer programmer who's getting no love at work and no love at home from his wife (Miche Rene Straub). His dickish boss assigns John to work out the bugs in a new game called Virtual Girl. Players strap themselves into a sensor suit, enter the artificial reality of the game and they get to have sex with a cyber-hooker named Virtuality (Charlie Curtis). The program appears to have a mind of its own and Virtuality becomes so obsessed with John that she extends her influence into the real world until John is forced to confront his digital fatal attraction. There's also the completely pointless appearance of the real world model of Virtuality and a twist that is so groan-inducingly stupid even M. Night Shyamalan would say "Man, that was really dumb".
Now, there are a lot of scenes in this film were women are topless, particularly the physically impressive Charlie Curtis. That tells me the folks who made Virtual Girl weren't total nincompoops. They can probably dress and feed themselves and know to have exact change for the bus. But those topless women are the only thing of any value in this movie, only two of them are attractive and some of the boobs are quite fake-looking. The writing and direction on display here barely qualifies as professional, the acting is porn-level bad and the computer effects look like the product of a dateless 17 year old with an Amiga and nothing to do over the weekend.
If this thing were 25 minutes long and on HBO so all the nudity was intact, this would have been perfect for frustrated adolescents to try and watch on scramblevision. At 84 minutes long, it's like watching your grandma die. From continuing to employ establishing shots for locations the audience has seen 5 or 6 times already to a soundtrack that defied space and time to travel back to 1998 from the 2000 Gene Roddenberry TV show Andromeda, Virtual Girl is a cornucopia of weak-ass movie making.
Let me put it this way. There's only one thing you can use this film for and you'd be better off using the women's underwear section from a 1956 Sears catalog. At least you'd be less ashamed when you finished.
Review by MBunge from the Internet Movie Database.
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