Murder by viral destruction....

Without giving away the main sequences, Simone is a movie about a man's last attempt to save his reputation, career, and life. He is in a slump, this famous director, and even his wife has asked him to move out. The teenage daughter is a sweet, young, unaffected girl (in Hollywood? With a mom who runs a studio, and a dad who rules the movie scene? She is too clean cut...). She, of course, wants her parents to reunite.

A man with one eye runs into Pacino as he is removing all his films from the studio. He swears he has the answer to Pacino's slump, but Pacino blows him off. The guy dies from his eye tumor, and gets the answer to Pacino via attorney. As you see in the trailer, Pacino creates the most beautiful starlet ever made - and she is a huge, huge hit. Pacino reads her lines, and pushes the buttons to make her performances perfection.

Enter Paparazzi. Reporters tracking down Simone while not realizing you can't track her down. The whole story revolves around chasing Simone and Pacino conjuring up ideas to make her appear real. A little yawn.

But then, Pacino decides it's time for her to go. This world of computers and video cameras creates the smoke and mirrors world of the entire movie! It looks like Pacino has really destroyed Simone....but wait!

Pacino looks physically awful in this movie, and I guess that's okay for a guy on his last career legs. But, honestly, shouldn't he look wonderful when his prodigy has won all the top awards and earned him Mega-bucks? Bad job.
Estranged wife is studio head - hmmm...I would have beefed up her charismatic and artistic persona - she's pretty conservative. Daughter, as I said, is boarding school sweet, not California type. Reporters are good, ruthless, and doggedly committed to finding out the truth. Great!

In sum, this movie delivers what you are told it delivers. That's nice. My husband thought maybe there were technical glitches, and Simone would ruin the affect of her appearances. But she even manages a holographic performance in LA in front of a crowd of 100,000....

Not bad, not perfect. Simone is worth renting when you have FREE movie money to use.