It's the End of an Era for This Cult Sci-Fi Thriller on Paramount+

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He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.  One of the most curious what-ifs in recent Hollywood history is Denzel Washington starring in David Fincher’s Se7en. Washington passed on the movie, but seemed to regret it instantly. What’s even more curious is the fact that Washington starred in at least three movies over the course of his career that appeared to have been modeled on Fincher’s masterpiece thriller. In 1998, three years after Se7en’s release and blockbuster success, Washington starred in Fallen, in which he played a cop investigating a copycat killer. In 1999, he starred in The Bone Collector, another movie in which he played a law enforcement officer trailing a serial killer. And then, in 2021, Washington played a detective in The Little Things, in which the killer was played by Jared Leto. But the one movie that can’t be put in the same category as these three titles, even though there’s a lot of overlap, is a film that was released in the same year as Se7en. It’s currently streaming in the United States on Paramount+, but it won’t be available for much longer. The movie also features Russell Crowe, who’d reunite with Washington years later in Ridley Scott’s critically acclaimed crime drama American Gangster. In the 1995 movie, Washington played a cop again, while Crowe played a digital composite of several serial killers. Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for. You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You're a systems thinker who can't help but notice the seams in things. The wasteland doesn't reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That's you. You'd survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely. Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards. The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn't have it any other way. The sci-fi movie we’re talking about is Virtuosity, directed by Brett Leonard. The film wasn’t very successful at the box office, grossing $37 million worldwide against a reported budget of $30 million. It now holds a 30% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Woefully deficient in thrills or common sense, Virtuosity strands its talented stars in a story whose vision of the future is depressingly short on imagination.” The film will be available on Paramount+ until August 1. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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