TEN SPOILER FILLED COMMENTS ABOUT “REPLICAS”
With a Rotten Tomatoes Score of 9%. I knew there was a good chance “Replicas” was going to be a turd.
I was right - it’s already a contender for worst movie of 2019.
For some reason the film is set in Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Arecibo is associated with the search for alien intelligence but there was no intellligence, alien or otherwise, in the movie - just a lot of technobabble.
The first premise of the story is the Keanu has invented a way to record memories of dead people and imprint them on a robot.
Next his pal, played by Thomas Middleditch, reveals he can clone humans in 17 days.
But wait! Keanu needs 4 clones (for wife and 3 kids who just died) and there are only 3 cloning chambers - what is he going to do?!?
My thought was to clone 3 of them then clone the 4th afterwards (after all its only 17 days) BUT no! Keanu decides to selectively erase the memories of his youngest daughter from everyone else’s brain - including mom’s pregnancy!
Did I tell you Keanu is smart enough to selectively erase memories even those memories are intertwined.
Not knowing how to end the story, the writer & director reveal Keanu’s employer is an evil military weapons manufacturer - car chases and guns and deaths soon follow in Keanu’s wake.
The tone of the movie is odd - bouncing from serious sci-fi to comedy (especially in any scene involving Middleditch - he jokes about Keanu’s son having old-man’s-balls).
Bonus - I often like Keanu in movies but here he’s stiff; his eves have that puffy look of someone with recent plastic surgery, and there’s not one wrinkle on his forehead.
