A company co-directed by Douglas Hall (Bierko) is about to go public regarding its virtual reality capability. With one's mind plugged into the system, a person may "inhabit" 1930s San Francisco, where the entire city is reproduced and fully populated. The time and setting were chosen by Dr. Hannon Fuller (Mueller-Stahl), the scientific genius of the company, to invoke his childhood, but Fuller is murdered in present-day San Fran just after leaving a warming note for Hall in the 1930s. Hall wakes up with his mentor's bloody shirt in his bathroom sink, and when he plugs into the past to investigate, he finds other, less savory reasons that Fuller spent time there. Even more bothersome, a gorgeous daughter Jane (Moll), whom Fuller never mentioned to Hall, shows up. As Detective Larry McBain fingers Hall for the murder, Hall tries desperately to find the real killer as well as the secrets of the VR San Fran, where his techie buddie Jason Whitney (D'Onofrio) seems to turn up as a sinister bartender at the dance hall in which Fuller regularly hung out. Stylish but a little incoherent, this 2001 film tries to raise similar issues to the Matrix series, but even less successfully.
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The review of this Movie prepared by David Loftus
A very differnet and intriguing science fiction/thriller. A experiemental computer program that could permit time travel to and fro 1930s and 1990s. A touch of virtual-reality and searching of the truth.
The review of this Movie prepared by Jenny
