Replicas
Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: January 11, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
19
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
2
Negative:
13
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40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJan 11, 2019
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. Read full review
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The GuardianCharles BramescoJan 11, 2019
An evolutionary marvel, Reeves has figured out how to adapt to the hostile environment of mediocrity, and here he takes to the gobbledygook and gaps in logic like a genetically altered fish to water. When the guy’s good, he’s great, and when he’s bad, he’s still serviceable. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerJan 14, 2019
St. John's script is the underlying bug in the code. Science fiction is at its best when it's a morality tale – especially when dealing with tech, such as brain mapping, that is seemingly within our grasp. Yet there's no moral or emotional weight to anything William does. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshJan 11, 2019
As Replicas races headlong toward its conclusion, the filmmakers manage to avoid every potentially interesting choice for far dumber, and far more inexplicable, conclusions. Read full review
30
The VergeJesse HassengerJan 11, 2019
The utter stupidity of Replicas sometimes makes it feel almost daring. It goes to some dark, counterintuitive places out of a seeming obliviousness to both what science fiction audiences might want to see, and how actual people might behave. Read full review
25
Original-CinLiam LaceyJan 17, 2019
At first so-bad-it's-good, then merely it’s-so-bad, Replicas’ source of interest is primarily forensic. How did director Jeffrey Nachmanoff and writer Chad St. John (London Has Fallen) think they could get away with it? Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 11, 2019
The movie is like Bill Foster’s mad experiment, a dry technical exercise with a functioning heart, but no soul whatsoever. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJan 11, 2019
Frankensteined together from the stiff corpses of a dozen smarter movies, Replicas is a cloning thriller so carelessly stupid that it often feels like a mad science experiment gone wrong. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJan 11, 2019
Truly dreadful...Replicas is completely ludicrous on a dozen or so levels, but it depressingly avoids the camp or style needed to make an implausible story work as pure entertainment. We’ll go with your goofy story, filmmakers, if you give us a cinematic reason to do so. Replicas never does. Not even remotely. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineJake ColeJan 10, 2019
The climax’s bizarre left turns culminate in a final image so bewildering that were the film not so relentlessly dour it might have clarified Replicas as an absurdist comedy. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaJan 11, 2019
Replicas is chock-full of histrionic what-ifs that seem to hyperventilate so hard in their delivery that they don’t have enough oxygen to actually blow anyone’s mind. It would be the stuff of future cult screenings if it wasn’t so boring and muddled. Read full review
20
We Got This CoveredLuke ParkerJan 11, 2019
Replicas lacks vigor in its plot, intelligence in its science, depth in its ethics, and humanity all around. It’s a disaster. Read full review
20
TheWrapDan CallahanJan 10, 2019
The chief distinction of Replicas is how detached it often is from the expected sense of words and images. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jan 11, 2019
Reeves is the most human presence on screen, trying and nobly failing to wrestle some emotional truth from every preposterous new plot twist. His labor is the one proof that you’re watching a real movie, and not just being plugged into the low-grade imitation of one in a poorly coded Matrix. Read full review
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VarietyJoe LeydonJan 11, 2019
How late can a thriller spring a plot twist that at least partially compensates for all the cavernous plot holes, risible dialogue, and ludicrously illogical behavior that precede it? Probably not nearly as late as the makers of Replicas wait before introducing a third-act reveal that brazenly acknowledges just how silly things have been up to that point. Read full review
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