Variety
Rampant silliness and gaping plot holes test audience patience in Jeffrey Nachmanoff's sci-fi thriller.
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Replicas
In this sci-fi thriller, neuroscientist William Foster (Reeves) is on the verge of successfully transferring human consciousness into a computer when his family is tragically killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect them, William recruits fellow scientist Ed Whittle (Thomas Middleditch) to help him secretly clone their bodies and create replicas. But he soon faces a “Sophie’s choice” when it turns out that they can only bring three of the four family members back to life.
2018Rating: M107 minsUSA, UK, China, Puerto Rico
Science FictionThriller
- Director:
- Jeffrey Nachmanoff ('Traitor', 'Hollywood Palms')
- Writer:
- Chad St. John
- Cast:
- Keanu ReevesAlice EveThomas MiddleditchEmjay AnthonyEmily Alyn LindNyasha HatendiAmber RiveraJeffrey HolsmanJohn Ortiz
Replicas / Reviews
The Guardian
After what may be one hundred hours, the film does not so much end as it stops, the score's wrapping-up tone an evident substitute for closure or resolution.
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The filmmakers manage to avoid every potentially interesting choice for far dumber, and far more inexplicable, conclusions.
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Hollywood Reporter
Replicas manages to be perversely entertaining for its fast-paced first half, if only because of the sheer absurdity of its storyline. But it eventually devolves into tedious thriller tropes...
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