The following is a movie review “Replicas” by Marc Primo.
Release date: 11 January 2019 (United States)
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Language: English
Production companies: Company Films, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Riverstone Pictures, Remstar Studios, Fundamental Films, Lotus Entertainment, Ocean Park Entertainment
Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Gao, Stephen Hamel, Keanu Reeves, Luis A. Riefkohl
Top-billed by John Wick star Keanu Reeves with a supporting claim to fame of having the same producer as blockbuster hit Transformers, the movie poster for Replicas does a good job of momentarily piquing your interest.
But go as far as paying 10 bucks to see it on the big screen and any hopes you had of seeing a Matrix-caliber sci-fi offering from Reeves will be extinguished faster than you can say “turkey”.
The plot is high concept enough: a synthetic biologist’s (Reeves) family is tragically killed in a car crash and in his despair, he transforms into a mad scientist reminiscent of Dr. Frankenstein in a desperate attempt to bring them back to life.
What writer Chad St. John hoped to achieve with this tired old premise is unclear, more so when director Jeffrey Nachmanoff’s final cut has about as many plot holes as we, the audience, need a motion picture such as this like said holes in the head.
Again, Reeves who has been terrific in The Matrix trilogy and as John Wick shows poor judgment in appearing in this science fiction comedy, which is laughable since the film straddles the fine line between being “so bad it’s good” and ends up making the viewer feel reanimated by eliciting chuckles in all the wrong places.
Replicas succeeds in replicating some of the laughs Reeves delivered in the classic Bill & Ted movies that helped ignite his career, but it’s a pity that was hardly the intention.
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