Gemini
Man (2019)
5/10
Starring
Will
Smith
Mary
Elizabeth Winstead
Clive
Owen
Directed
by Ang Lee
Gemini
Man is a Sci-Fi action thriller which they say it has been a long
time in the making.
The
movie idea is very interesting, but the plot was flat. It seemed like
I was witnessing a monologue from an old man to his younger self,
every time the two were after each other in the early to mid part of
the movie. When the action scenes erupt, they do so grandly, but then
climax weakly, but they made up for this nonsense action scenes in
the end of the movie.
This
one dimension plot would have been fun if the movie does not at times
drift off into a long dialogues between any two of the three on the
run.
Here
is the plot of the movie, a government assassin operative named Henry
Brogan (Will Smith) is aging and retiring. After his last hit for the
government and his retirement, his friend told him that a source
informed him that the last man he killed was innocent.
The
government found out about this conversation and sent operatives to
kill him, his friend and the lady who was sent to man the dock where
he took a boat to meet his friend.
He
saves the lady and even though his friend was dead they both escape
to meet another of his old friends. It was there in the east that the
three were attacked by a man who looked exactly like Henry.
They
found out the person was a clone and now they have to stop him before
his kills them.
The
scene of present self trying to talk younger self to think, was so
not-emotionally well done. It came out gross and below par for the
people in-charge of the dialogue in this movie.
Nearly
twenty-years went waiting for the technology to catch up with the
idea for making this movie. Many directors and leads were passed by
until Ang Lee and Will Smith jumped on the wagon.
Instead
of going the way Looper
(2012), where two different actors (Bruce
Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) were used to portray a younger and
older version of the lead character. Gemini Man uses motion capture
and de-aging technology to portray a younger Will Smith. Will Smith
played both his character and the motion capture for his younger
self.
I
was not impressed by this movie based on the hype and the people
involved. I expected more and was disappointed by what I saw. I
expected more action with amazing choreography in the fight scenes
(this was only present at the ending of the movie) and not a waste of
time in bike chases. I expected the plot to have some deep ties and
an unexpected effect from the whole clone existence. A twist in the
movie that we are not told about until the end, but what they dropped
at the end was something we were all expecting so there was no
surprise there. All of these expectations were just that,
expectations.
I
guess it was my fault for expecting more, the move delivered less and
I do not feel comfortable recommending it for viewing pleasure. But
you can see it for the sake that it has Will Smith in it, referring
to his fans.
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