Replicas vex movies6/6/2023 ![]() If the viewer watches "Replicas" with few expectations he or she may enjoy this film. The screenplay has flaws but the film is worthwhile watching, with the always good Keanu Reeves and Alice Eve. "Replicas" is a flawed but highly entertaining sci-fi thriller. ![]() Now Will needs to make his experiment work since he will not have a second chance. ![]() They have only four pods and the youngest daughter is sacrificed. Will calls Ed and convinces him to develop clones of his family members to transfer their memories. ![]() While traveling with his family to Ed´s boat in a stormy night, Will has a car accident on the road and his beloved wife Mona (Alice Eve) and their three children die. The experiment does not work and the body is rejected by the donors, and the manager Jones (John Ortiz) is pressing Will telling that the government will shut down the experiment. In Puerto Rico, the scientist Will Foster (Keanu Reeves) is researching the transference of the brain memories of soldiers to a synthetic body in the laboratory where he works with his partner and friend Ed (Thomas Middleditch). Not worth the hater's low scores, nor the fake 10's, but it's an honest 8/10 from me - taking into consideration it was a low budget B-grade film. Nevertheless, it was still entertaining and I enjoyed it. Had the writing been tighter, directing better, and cast a little differently, then this would have been a hit. As a low budget B-grade film, and although there is a lot of haters out there, it was still decent enough and it kept me pinned to the screen. The only convincing lead was Thomas Middleditch. Security guys with pony tails and sunglasses? The acting again wasn't as good as I expected, but I think that was the directors fault as I mentioned above. I think many decisions couldn't have been easily agreed upon with that many producers. As a huge fan of Keanu Reeves, I feel he should have just stayed on as 1 of the *gulp* 27 producers, and cast someone more fitting as a scientist. After all, it was purchased by Entertainment Studios for only 4m. It seems that the production itself was a little cheap (thus B-grade), perhaps meant to be a low budget (indie?) film. The S/VFX weren't the greatest, but for a B-grade film low budget film, they were quite adequate - not sure what some of the haters are whining about. The camera directing was fairly decent from Jeffrey Nachmanoff (this being only his 4th full length feature film, his experience mainly in TV series), but I feel he failed in directing his talent properly, especially Alice Eve, who was unconvincing and seemed like this was her first acting role. John (this being his 2nd only screenplay), and the story by a novice Stephen Hamel (this being only his 3rd full length film). The major issue with the film was the writing - the screenplay written by novice Chad St. This film does not rank up to being a memorable science fiction type of movie. It has some entertaining science fiction moments with the concept after the first hour of the movie. And John Ortiz playing the typical corporate bad guy was forgettable. Sure, it may work for his performance as a one dimensional type of character. Keanu Reeves did deliver an emotionless mad scientist in this film. Sure, his actions does get a little messed up and may have trouble trying to find emotions to the character. The first hour of the movie is dull and boring when just watching Keanu Reeve's mad scientists behavior with his experiments. Second, the script has some laughable dialogue that seems out of place or unbelievable. Especially on the scene with the android coming to life. It has questionable cgi/visual effects that looks terrible. Even his coworker/ friend Ed (Thomas Middleditch) becomes worried of Williams obsession in his research. He steals the lab equipment and has it set in his basement. William becomes a mad scientist that wants to go beyond the laws of nature to save his family. Also some scary ideas of deleting memories. It has an interesting concept at play such as cloning a human being and transferring their minds into the new body. William becomes a mad scientist that will do whatever it takes to save his family. William's wife Mona (Alice Eve), his son Matt (Emjay Anthony), Sophie (Emily Alyn Lind), and Zoe (Aria Leabu) are involved an accident. William (Keanu Reeves) works for a biomedical research in trying to transfer a mind of a dead person into an android. Without trying to give away many spoilers. Replicas is a decent science fiction thriller that has some interesting concept and ideas but falls short from a terrible script, logic, and dull performances.
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