Thursday, October 20, 2022

VIRT review


Summary:

In one of the United States busiest cities, crime is always right around the corner; but at Virtual Software Solutions, crime takes a whole other form. Joe Wilson, Virtual Software Solutions' lead virtual software engineer works hard and takes his job very seriously. So serious that when murders appear to be linked to the internal database he maintains, he stops at nothing without care to his reputation and credibility to find the killer and stop him.

Synopsis:

In one of the United States busiest cities, crime is always right around the corner; but at Virtual Software Solutions, crime takes a whole other form. In a not-too-distant future, Virtual Software Solutions (VSS) emerges as the leading-edge provider of software performance and coding. They have developed a method for programmers to virtually project themselves into the computer to fix software problems. Software bugs that used to take weeks and months can now be solved in mere hours. Upon fixing code in a very popular social media site, one of VSS's leading programmers - Joe Wilson, notices something is not right. He has stumbled into areas where photos have been obliterated. Stranger yet, inside the virtual world Joe sees a man in dark clothing, with incredible skills wreaking havoc. This skilled virtual coder appears to be a rogue killer, selecting his next victims from the social media's profile pictures. It quickly becomes obvious to Joe that people owning the photos destroyed in the virtual world will wind up dead. The police think Joe might be involved as there are just too many coincidences that he personally knows. Even his co-workers have started to realize anyone in contact with him suddenly becomes marked for death. Joe tries to make sense of why people are dying, clear his name and figure out his role in saving them. It's a race against time to save those that have been selected for death. Will you be safe, or will anyone make it out alive?

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Review:

VIRT is kind of like a murder mystery crossed with The Matrix. Imagine finding evidence of murder, and then becoming the prime suspect because nobody else has seen this evidence. Such a terrifying concept. The title sequence at the beginning was a little long, but the rest is well paced. I'm glad it had a happy ending, mostly.

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