Sigh … It’s kind of sad what Bruce Willis is up to these days. As Exhibit A, I give you this review of Vice, a low-budget sci-fi action movie that JoBlo.com says steals more than a page out of the Westworld playbook.

Now there’s no shame in borrowing a few ideas from a classic. You can see Westworld‘s DNA is quite a few movies through the decades, and we’re talking big ones like Blade Runner and Jurassic Park.

But Vice goes another step further in its premise. Again, from JoBlo:

Entrepreneur Julian Michaels (Bruce Willis) owns an urban resort called “Vice” where guests are work out their worst urges on the human-like android inhabitants, none of whom realize they aren’t human, and have their memories wiped every time they’re killed. However, one android, K.E.L.L.Y (Ambyr Childers) becomes self-aware and teams up with a Vice-hating cop (Thomas Jane) to take the resort down once and for all.

In the interest of giving credit where it’s due, I don’t think the androids in the original Westworld are unaware that they aren’t human, or at least they aren’t advanced enough for that to even be a consideration. It could be something we see in the new HBO series; I wouldn’t be surprised if the writers play with that concept a little bit.

The big difference is that HBO’s Westworld will have a cast oozing acting talent from every pore, while Vice has only Willis, who is hardly on the screen at all, and Thomas Jane, who also doesn’t get a role as significant as you might think. The rest of the actors and actresses, I’m guessing, are not quite of the caliber we’ll be seeing on premium cable later this year.

As for you, Mr. Willis, it’s not too late to give Jonathan Nolan a call. Maybe he’s got something more impressive you can do that still involves androids. Maybe.