"Mr. Washington is usually an actor audiences will follow to any dimension. But here his role is limited, too often leaving him playing second fiddle to this film's weirdly hypnotic special effects. Mr. Crowe, as a psychotic yuppie type bearing a disconcerting resemblance to the writer Bret Easton Ellis, does a memorable job of making himself frightening until the film becomes numbingly frantic, in the manner of many video games. While it excoriates the vicious Sid as the techno-spawn of monsters like Adolf Hitler and John Wayne Gacy, "Virtuosity" also revels in his exploits with more enthusiasm than is really necessary."

"Game over."

"While officers gather evidence of the grisly crime scene, you can only ask yourselves, "What kind of lunatic would commit such unthinkable crimes?" The three adjectives which best describe this killer are sadistic, intelligent and dangerous."

"They love you so much, they want you dead... Ed."

"Hey Parker, this one's for you!"

"Ahhh... I'm losing too much of myself."

"Hey, buddy! How's the wife and kid? Still dead, huh?"

"Uh-uh-uh. I thought of that one. Better try again... Faster."

"Where's my gun?"

"I'm a 50 terabyte, self-evolving, neural network, double backflip off the high platform. I'm not a swan dive."

"Reach in the back seat and hand me that crowd-pleaser."

"Just because I'm carrying around the joy of killing your family inside me doesn't mean we can't be friends."

"Russell Brand - Trinculo"

"Alfred Molina - Stephano"

"Alan Cumming - Sebastian"

"David Strathairn - Alonso, King of Naples"

"Tom Conti - Gonzalo"

"Felicity Jones - Miranda"

"Ben Whishaw - Ariel"

"Djimon Hounsou - Caliban"

"Reeve Carney - Ferdinand"

"What they say is real Shakespeare, with some reasonable trims and modifications. And with one notable exception, they speak the language beautifully, finding nuances of humor, feeling and fantasy packed into the prose and poetry of the script. Presiding over a motley, talented assembly is Helen Mirren as Prospera, the former duchess of Milan and Ms. Taymor’s most provocative and persuasive act of revision. Switching the gender of Prospero — an aging wizard who is also his author’s last and fondest alter ego — is more than a gimmick. When the character is a woman, a central relationship in the play, between the magician and her doted-on child, Miranda, sheds some of its traditional, patriarchal dynamic. Instead, a mother-daughter bond fraught with envy, protectiveness and identification blossoms into something newly rich and strange. … The Tempest is, perhaps above all, the portrait — the self-portrait — of an artist on the verge of saying farewell to his art. By abjuring her “rough magic,” burying her magician’s staff and drowning her book of spells, Prospera elects to live in a world without supernatural possibilities; having demonstrated the power of art, she accepts the limits of that power and forsakes hubris for humility, something Ms. Taymor seems unable to do."

"I didn't really have a male actor that excited me in mind, and yet there had been a couple of phenomenal females — Helen Mirren being one of them — who [made me think]: "My God, does this play change? What happens if you make that role into a female role?" … We did a reading to see if it was just a gimmick, and it worked so beautifully. The potential was there to enhance the play for people who know it — and for others it will just seem natural."

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bed fellows."

"Chris Cooper - Antonio"

"Helen Mirren - Prospera"

"We are such as dreams are made on, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep."

"Be cheerful sir, our revels now are ended."

"I will plague them all, even to roaring!"

"This island is mine!"

"Norman Lloyd - Frank Fry"

"Clem Bevans - Neilson"

"Otto Kruger - Charles Tobin"

"Alan Baxter - Mr. Freeman"

"3000 miles of terror!"

"Priscilla Lane - Patricia 'Pat' Martin"

"You'd like to say - IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE!... but every jolting scene is TRUE!!"

"[Philip, a blind man, explains to Patricia why he believes Barry is innocent] Don't you know I can see a great deal farther than you can? I can see intangible things. For example, innocence."

"Robert Cummings - Barry Kane"

"Power, yes... I want that as much as you want your job, or that girl. We all have different tastes as you can see, only I'm willing to back my tastes with the necessary force."

"[to Patricia as they dance at a party full of Nazi sympathizers] Right now, they're probably haggling over the price for us with Murder, Incorporated."

"You're one of the ardent believers - a good American. Oh, there are millions like you. People who play along, without asking questions. I hate to use the word stupid, but it seems to be the only one that applies. The great masses, the moron millions. Well, there are a few of us unwilling to troop along... a few of us who are clever enough to see that there's much more to be done than just live small complacent lives, a few of us in America who desire a more profitable type of government. When you think about it, Mr. Kane, the competence of totalitarian nations is much higher than ours. They get things done."

"[to Barry Kane] Very pretty speech - youthful, passionate, idealistic. Need I remind you that you are the fugitive from justice, not I. I'm a prominent citizen, widely respected. You are an obscure workman wanted for committing an extremely unpopular crime. Now which of us do you think the police will believe?"

"You have all the makings of an outstanding boor."

"Pat, this moment belongs to me. No matter what happens, they can never take it away from me. [another dancer cuts in and dances off with Pat]"

"[to Charles Tobin] Why is it that you sneer every time you refer to this country? You've done pretty well here. I don't get it."

"Hands that applaud can also kill!"

"Jane Wyman - Eve Gill"