"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."

"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."

"Game over."

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

"Where's my gun?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Martin Lawrence — Bobby Davis"

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

"This island is mine!"

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

"Russell Brand - Trinculo"

"Alfred Molina - Stephano"

"Alan Cumming - Sebastian"

"Chris Cooper - Antonio"

"Reeve Carney - Ferdinand"

"Tom Conti - Gonzalo"

"David Strathairn - Alonso, King of Naples"

"Felicity Jones - Miranda"

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

"Djimon Hounsou - Caliban"

"Ben Whishaw - Ariel"

"Helen Mirren - Prospera"

"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."

"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."

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bed fellows."

"Daniel Morton - Nicky's Son"

"Shoshannah Stern - Steven's Girlfriend"

"Eric Roberts - Himself (uncredited)"

"Judy Greer - Girl with Emily French at Movie Premiere (uncredited)"