12 Cheesy Action Films More Fun Than Terminator Genisys

Here’s the pitch: Russell Crowe (Best Actor, Gladiator) is Sid 6.7, a “Nanotech synthetic organism”, which in layman terminology means he’s a composite of Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, Jack The Ripper, John Wayne Gacy and, for all we know, Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld.

You see, he’s part of a training simulation for LA’s finest, but unbeknownst to cop Denzel Washington (Best Actor, Training Day), one of Sid’s personalities is the psycho who butchered his family. So when Crowe escapes from virtual reality it’s one long cat-and-mouse game, but how do you tackle an opponent who’s impervious to bullets, doesn’t bleed and if tested could probably leap buildings in a single bound?

Think Demolition Man with the ethnicity of the leads reversed, some VR tossed in plus Louise Fletcher (Best Actress, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest) as an ineffectual official and you’re almost there. There’s shades of The Hitcher and Die Hard as Denzel is set up for something he didn’t do, gets fired fired upon by a police helicopter and takes a very John McClane-ish rooftop plunge, then as if to prove originality is not this film’s strongest suit, it ends with Washington racing to defuse a bomb.