Have you seen
the science fiction movie Replicas? If you haven’t, please save yourself
the pain.
The movie stars
Keanu Reeves, but it’s not enticing, and the story is very sad—not dramatic
sad, but boring sad. You can literally hear the time ticking away as you waste
over an hour of your life watching this film. You can’t fall asleep because
you’re too angry, and you can’t throw anything at the screen because you can’t
afford the damage. Instead, you just sit there wondering, “How bad can it get
from here?” Then it reaches the climax, and you realize there’s still more
horrid writing ahead.
This movie is
about mind transfer, and the acting feels like it was done by people who were
just there for the paycheck. It’s clear they didn’t care whether anyone would
mind that they, too, thought the movie wouldn’t amount to anything in the end.
Even Keanu Reeves wasn’t in his “A” game here—or maybe the problem was just the
wrong casting.
The movie’s plot
follows a scientist genius, played by Keanu Reeves. He’s married with three
kids, and his job is to figure out how to transfer the consciousness of a
recently deceased person into a machine.
The first
successful trial, which resulted in some form of speech, was mostly a
disaster—and that’s what we see, as they’ve been at this for a long time.
The moral
implications of these trials start to weigh on his wife, and she asks him to be
careful. One unfortunate night, he and his family are involved in an accident,
and he’s the only survivor.
He calls his colleague from work to bring over the synthetic bodies they’ve
been developing for their experiments. Miraculously, he transfers the
consciousness of his wife and two of his kids into these new bodies.
The miracle
works this time, driven by his desperate need to have his family back. The only
issue? They only had three bodies, so he had to make a drastic decision.
He edited his
family’s memories to exclude the crash and the existence of his youngest child.
He even removed all traces of her from their home. He put his family to bed,
and in the morning, they woke up and carried on as if nothing had happened.
Unbeknownst to
him, his success was monitored by the company he works for. Now, they want in
on his breakthrough, but he doesn’t want to share.
That’s what this
total crap of a movie is about. Don’t bother enduring it or looking for a
reason to watch it.
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