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Simone is a fascinating concept treated poorly in a mediocre film.....who, as an impressively intricate combination of CGI and a "real" actress -.... ... Full Review

Written and directed by Andrew Niccol, ''Simone'' reflects the same sophisticated fascination with manipulated life that the filmmaker brought to ''Gattaca'' and his script for ''The Truman Show,'' and Niccol smartly contrasts the bland, blond beauty of computer-colored Simone (the name is a contraction of a computer program called Simulation One) with the brunet vividness of Keener. ... Full Review

Written and directed by Andrew Niccol, ''Simone'' reflects the same sophisticated fascination with manipulated life that the filmmaker brought to ''Gattaca'' and his script for ''The Truman Show,'' and Niccol smartly contrasts the bland, blond beauty of computer-colored Simone (the name is a contraction of a computer program called Simulation One) with the brunet vividness of Keener. ... Full Review

Aside from sucker-fans, Simone mocks box-office-obsessed execs;.... ... Full Review

Written and directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca), Simone takes a satirical approach to an otherwise fantastical comedy. Either way Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino) finds himself growing more and more aware of the media-obsessed culture in which he tries to earn his living. ... Full Review

While these scenes are conceptually interesting, and Pacino can be quite funny in them, they never quite work as full-bodied cinema. Taransky is a desperate filmmaker, with some flops behind him and an ex-wife (Catherine Kenner) who's the head of the studio at which, until recently, he was under contract. ... Full Review

Simone may technically be the weakest of Niccol's projects (besides Truman The extremely versatile computer code allows Simone to mimic his voice in real-time; the scenes in which he is alone with the program, essentially talking to himself, are played for laughs but have a subtle poignancy. ... Full Review

Don't see it in theatres, but it's definitely a good rental candidate. This film is nothing special. I think that it's fine to place more value in dialogue and conversational content rather than set design, but this film lacked in both areas. ... Full Review

Pacino isn't generally known for his comic touches, but they served him well in Simone . Not that I blame Pacino for those long which made it all the more painful when the film lapsed into preachy seriousness ... Full Review

a bland, unfortunate Hollywood satire that aims to skewer the cult of celebrity....Simone is not satire at its best.....Technically flawless and exceedingly well acted, Simone nonetheless rings as hollow as Simone herself.....Stunningly beautiful and more than able to act her way out of a wet paper bag, Simone takes the world by storm.....as satire, it fails miserably due to the sheer unbelievability of the storyline's various twists and turns..... ... Full Review