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Such a frustrating disappointment

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person. S1m0ne stars Al Pacino, Evan Rachel Wood and Winona Ryder and although all 3 of them are talented actors unfortunately the film is pretty awful and boring it's all about this producer played by Pacino trying to built a name around this fake actress that doesn't exist and the result is just slow pacing and weird characters making no sense i tried to understand this but also like it but it gave me nothing to enjoy or even like it was just boring and dumb and it's sad cause Al Pacino is one of the greatest actors ever born.

This movie doesn't begin well, quickly goes downhill and the less said about the ending the better. Terrible.This is possibly Pacino's worst film. The production values are off, the script is amateurish and the delivery could have been phoned in. It's as though everyone working on this was about to go on vacation and had to get this stinker in the can before they left. There's an overwhelming sense the whole crew had lost interest before they even started shooting.Pacino is not a comedian nor a comic actor. He can do comic relief in a serious movie really well such as in Scent of a Woman. But he is so poorly cast in this movie that there is never even a grain of mild amusement created by what is supposed to be his humorous banter. Instead, depressing and violence inducing tedium is the result.Avoid this movie at all costs. You'll find more entertainment cleaning the gunk out of your dishwasher sump drain.

I had heard a little about this film, possibly that it was a box office flop or just not very popular, I was interested to see if that was the case, from Andrew Niccol (writer of The Truman Show and The Terminal, director of Gattaca). Basically Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino) is the film producer who has recently started work on his new big film he wants to be a success, but his project is in danger when the big star Nicola Anders (Winona Ryder) drops out. Just when Taransky thinks he can't continue the film he meets Hank Aleno (Elias Koteas), not long before he dies, and he inherits a new computer program from him that enables him to create a new way to finish the film. This program allows him to create a completely realistic digitally constructed actress, the program is called "Simulation One", so he simply deletes the letters to create "Simone" (Rachel Roberts). The film is completed, and the co-stars of the film accept that he has selected this new actress that they will not see in rehearsals or filming, and to his surprise they see the completion and lap it up. The finished film is released in cinemas, and synthetic Simone is the big talking point, becoming an overnight and worldwide sensation, and naturally Taransky gains his notoriety too. With the success gained from this digitally created woman, Tarasnky does everything he can to keep up the pretence that Simone is a real person, such as fake telephone calls, voice change chats with colleagues, prerecorded and digitalised interviews, magazine covers and much more. As well as creating more films starring Simone, he also wants her to break into other markets, including a sellout concert where she sings, and still no-one is aware that she is a fake computer creation. It is after Simone wins the Oscar in a tie, both being for her, and he forgot to have her mention his name, that Taransky knows that it is Simone everyone wants, not him. While his huge lie is going on there are some nosey people trying to get close to Simone, unsuccessfully, investigating places "she" has visited, and luckily they do not suspect anything about her not existing. Tarasnky desperately tries to convince Elaine Christian (Catherine Keener) of the truth, but naturally she does not believe him, so he takes drastic action and decides to "kill" Simone, erasing the memory from the computer and throwing all the technology into the ocean. After the big funeral for the non-existent actress, Taransky is arrested for her "murder", in which he again tries to convince them of the truth, but in the end "Simone" is alive, after the little girl recovered her, and she will go on to have a baby and run for office. Also starring Pruitt Taylor Vince as Max Sayer, Jay Mohr as Hal Sinclair, Jason Schwartzman as Milton, Stanley Anderson as Frank Brand, Evan Rachel Wood as Lainey Christian Taransky, Daniel Von Bargen as Chief Detective and Rebecca Romijn as Faith. Pacino gives a good performance as the producer doing everything possible to keep everyone believing his fake female on screen personality is real, the supporting cast, including of course Roberts, do their best as well. I think personally the critics overlooked this film, it is actually really clever, it is giving us an insight into how Hollywood can be fake, how CGI is becoming bigger and better as time goes by, and it is both amusing and fascinating to see how a huge lie can go a long way like this one, I can see the tiniest snags to agree with the rating, but it is a pretty enjoyable satirical comedy drama. Okay!

I mean i still cant believe it was an Al Pachino movie, and how in the holy hell did he even take this shitty script. Simone was a simulation even in real life, I mean come on, she wasn't even hot. Winnona Ryder was not better then her... please!!!!!!!!!Its full of mistakes both technological and non-technical.I don't mind the idea behind the film but, I do mind the movie. It was just plain old bad.Every one going gaga over Simone was also very unrealistic, especially without a base....People spare this film and yourself. You just might get a wrong conception about Al after this.And please I really do not find "Rachel Roberts" hot.