I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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.

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!

Though not repeatedly heard, writer/director Andrew Niccol is really talented in incorporating societal topics into his movies in shocking ways. Basically, his works worked because the concepts he played with are well implemented and fertilized by him.From Gattaca to Truman Show, to S1m0ne, sci-fi is not something only Lucas and Spierberg can handle, although these guys are always interested in telling you their visions for the future are not cheap. The concepts behind S1m0ne can be considered impossible to realize in the real world because anyone with any computer knowledge would know to digitally fabricate a role and incorporate her into the real production footages would take 100 computer engineers and days of work to render each frame...... And, in the movie Simone only needed Al Pacino's solo job to do the motion-detection, dubbing and everything, using one PC. Of course this is a joke, but again anyone paying too much attention to that missed the point of the movie, that medias produce idols, idols made money and made the line between reality and illusion blur. In this crazy logic yet again accepted by most of us in the public, we can't laugh all the comedic characters portrayed without looking at ourselves. And frankly speaking, Niccol always knew how to end a movie in a satisfying way. S1m0ne is not an exception, that just when everyone thought the story will go in the logically-favored direction, it turned to be better.You need a good director to master someone like Al Pacino, and that means certainly not averagely-good, but really good. Before S1m0ne, I always thought Pacino only fits either outrageous roles or traumatic roles or both. But S1m0ne proved he can also be as funny as Jim Carrie. Given all the chaotic and idiotic situations in the movie, Pacino pretty much held true to his outrageous and traumatic nature but pulled off one of the best roles in his career. Robert Deniro, Dustin Hoffman both had similar roles in a similar genre(Wag the Dog and What Just Happened) and none of their performances can match Pacino's. Besides, S1m0ne really made What Just Happened looked like amateurish work.Al last, as the movie's rating kept dropping for years, the ideas in it actually are approaching us. I am looking forward to director Niccol's next project. Keep it up Mr Niccol!

No wonder why most Americans dislike this piece of film. It talks merely about Delusion Creation and how it influences millions of people. After watching this movie i expected to see it on the IMDb top 250, but it was not there. Most reviews do concentrate on the plot technological flaws of the film and forget about the main idea. Here there is a talented director who was able to deceive millions of people not with the intention of mere deception but he was somehow obliged to do so to prove himself. Ring any bells? Yes exactly! It's all about American politics! The irony here is when he wanted to reveal his secret nobody wanted to believe him. I do not want to go through this anyway. Al Paccino was superb in his role. The film also talks about 'Art of Human Creation'. Remember the time it takes Viktor to create Simone's first picture was nine months. Also his name is of the first scientist managed to create humans in fiction. In short, this film is more profound than it seems to be. Try to give it another chance and don't stick to the floppy and the virus removal points. When the food is highly delicious it will be impolite of you to comment on the bad color of the table cover!