Product Details

• Actors: Clea Duvall, Joy Bryant
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: May 4, 2010
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001NHZ2K2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,264 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Nothing is what it seems in this daring, futuristic movie event from legendary Director Peter Berg (Hancock) and Executive Producers Michael Taylor and Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica). Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. But as the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them to question if someone onboard might be a killer. Starring Clea DuVall (Carnivále), Joy Bryant (Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins), Sienna Guillory (Eragon), Ritchie Coster (The Dark Knight) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Firewall), it’s a dazzling trip to unexplored reaches of outer space and the inner imagination that Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune calls a “complex and intriguing film.”

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, April 29, 2010

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equazcion (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Virtuality (DVD)

This was actually supposed to be the pilot episode of a TV show produced for FOX. The show wasn't picked up as a series, but FOX still aired it as a TV movie.

As a TV show, this would have been spectacular. The quality of production, the exceptional performances, the character development, and the many layers of theme and story make merely watching this lone episode a telling experience about the nature of television and creativity today. If nothing else, it makes for a good case study on the problem of TV today, especially in the sci-fi arena, and a telling demonstration of what TV could be like, if TV executives were to risk making their show choices based on quality, rather than on the safety of lowest-common-denominator marketability. By the end of this movie/episode, whether you're generally a sci-fi fan or not, you'll wonder how in the hell a show like "V" got on the air, while this was passed on.

This is a quality, imaginative, original production that really sucks you in. As a stand-alone, the only problem is the untidy ending (as it was written in anticipation of more installments to come). There has been talk among fans and the actors that sufficient interest could still get the series picked up, if not by FOX then perhaps by SyFy, and a web page was even set up by the spouse of one actor to organize a letter-writing campaign to that end. I pray that it's not too late for this to happen. The wasted potential here is criminal.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We need more science fiction like this!, June 29, 2009

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K. J (Southwest Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Virtuality (DVD)

If it weren't for Alan Sepinwall's blog, I would never have heard about this pilot. I am a huge fan of science fiction, and I loved "Virtuality." I'm SO disappointed that Fox burned it off on a Friday night in JUNE when no one is watching to see if it would capture an audience.

Excellent concept for a show. Loved the 'thriller' aspects of it, the cast was superb, the special effects were great. What more do you want, Fox? Why not give this show a chance to find an audience before you kill it? We need more intelligent shows on tv, and with "Battlestar Galactica" now off the air, there is a hole on tv for us science fiction fans.

Here's to hoping the SciFi Channel picks it up...please????

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Unfortunate Situation, May 18, 2010

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Greg 452 "gpritch84" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Virtuality (DVD)

Overall this is an excellently produced pilot for a show that never got picked up by the Fox Network. Instead, it was simply aired as a made-for-TV movie. Because of this, literally all questions are left unanswered and can be extremely frustrating for most viewers. That being said, I still rated it 5 stars since what we actually do have here is a fantastic story that had quite a bit of potential. There is no reason to rate the actual product lower because the Fox Network, in my opinion, foolishly produced a pilot episode and then decided not to produce a full season but still wanted to air what they had (mind you, this was also originally aired on a Friday night around 8:00pm). I do not pretend to know the reasons behind network executives' decisions, but the lack of picking up Virtuality and then airing the pilot anyway is an error in my book.

(Possible Spoiler in this paragraph) In the end, you have the beginnings of a very interesting story that I don't think we will ever see resolved. If you can live with that and simply use your imagniation to figure out what is going on (most likely something to do with god/God since Ron Moore was involved) but all means pick this up.