The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress. The "actress" becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she's a real person. However, as Simone's fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself o... (Full plot summary below)
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The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress. The "actress" becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she's a real person. However, as Simone's fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world.
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| TimeRichard SchickelSimone is a funny, smart, improbably successful satire on contemporary celebrity obsessions, the waning summer's most delirious comedy. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonWriter-director Niccol (who wrote and directed "Gattaca" and scripted "The Truman Show") uses disarming, but wicked lightness to damn the celebrity-worshiping culture and Hollywood's beyond-the-looking-glass filmmaking. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAs the man who made the monster and now has to live with it, Pacino's a blast. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaFor all its flaws, offers an enjoyable look at the machinations of moviedom and fame, and a look into a future where what is real and what isn't becomes scarily blurred. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe movie pretends to warn against such shallowness -- but flaunts its arousal at how exciting such a controllable world is for those with access to the software. |
| L.A. WeeklyLisa KennedyNiccol gives audiences a very amusing puzzle about authenticity, fraud, and the uses and abuses of technology. That is a fine and funny feat. The very folks responsible for our obsession with celebrity will likely love it. And in loving it, they will no doubt let themselves off the hook. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe best scenes play like "Frankenstein" revisited, with a comically bedraggled Pacino cast as the mad scientist trying to protect his runaway creation from a rabid public. |
| Film ThreatMichael DequinaWith Simone, Niccol makes what seems like a preposterous idea not only fresh and entertaining, but most of all reveals said idea to be not at all far removed from reality--as any good satire should. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigA worthy, if flawed, piece of entertainment. |
| New Times (L.A.)Robert WilonskyWriter-director Andrew Niccol throws around a lot of intriguing ideas in this film, and even though his ambitions are more expansive than his talent, he's managed to come up with something that credibly resembles the shape of things to come, Hollywood-style. |
