Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: January 11, 2019
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TryASummersaultJan 13, 2019
5.6/10 An extremely scattered, rushed, and illogical VOD caliber amalgamation of recycled synthetic/cloning sci/fi concepts somehow on a robust 30 million dollar budget. I really wonder how this was made for a whopping 30m budget and turned5.6/10 An extremely scattered, rushed, and illogical VOD caliber amalgamation of recycled synthetic/cloning sci/fi concepts somehow on a robust 30 million dollar budget. I really wonder how this was made for a whopping 30m budget and turned out so laughably mediocre especially with Keanu Reeves involved. It truly plays out like a VOD type 3m budget film with some awful acting, messy plotting, dull dialogue, and worst of all abhorrent mid 90s like CGI. While the intro abruptly intrigues somewhat with an ambitious enough sequence of events, it unravels into ridiculous yet watchable territory quickly. Most of the film drags on until an insane conclusion which at least swings for the fence with some exciting moments albeit nonsensical. Overall it's a very forgettable film that doesn't deliver much ultimately, that happens to have Keanu in it. If you're a fan of Keanu, it's worth watching but don't expect much. Expand
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EludiumQ36Apr 19, 2019
Good premise, wrong vehicle for execution. This is why you're seeing reviews run hot and cold. The basic premise is a good, scifi-mind-transference one, but a short 100-min film demands unacceptable compromises. This needs A LOT of run roomGood premise, wrong vehicle for execution. This is why you're seeing reviews run hot and cold. The basic premise is a good, scifi-mind-transference one, but a short 100-min film demands unacceptable compromises. This needs A LOT of run room to properly play out, so it needed to be an 8 to 13 episode streaming series. Shoehorning this story into 100-mins results in ridiculous timelines and implausibilities. And Keanu's infamous wooden acting doesn't help to sell this either. Thank god for Middleditch's character that attempted to call into question so much of the ridiculosity going on. (Can't wait for the next season of him in Silicon Valley.) So look, you can be forgiven for hating this film, I struggled to get through it, but I wanted to understand the underlying story despite its hurried execution. Expand
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DubeauJan 26, 2019
Replicas had a good idea to start with. The story has many holes in it. Almost everything takes shortcuts. The science, the absence of 4 persons for 17 days, the police, the bad guys. The acting is pretty ordinary. The best performances comesReplicas had a good idea to start with. The story has many holes in it. Almost everything takes shortcuts. The science, the absence of 4 persons for 17 days, the police, the bad guys. The acting is pretty ordinary. The best performances comes from the youngest actors. The plot's big revelation comes totally flat. I give it 48%. The kind of film you will forget tomorrow. That's why I am writing this review...before I forget about it. Expand
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LamontRaymondJan 11, 2019
No, it's not an ultra-sophisticated sci-fi flick, but what it's got in spades is FUN! Keanu is in top form, and I love Alice Eve in it. It explores and plays out a variety of interesting cloning and brain mapping scenarios, and it's grippingNo, it's not an ultra-sophisticated sci-fi flick, but what it's got in spades is FUN! Keanu is in top form, and I love Alice Eve in it. It explores and plays out a variety of interesting cloning and brain mapping scenarios, and it's gripping in a way that so many of these big, dumb Marvel and DC flicks are not. Expand
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Davrosdaleks1Jan 12, 2019
In Replicas, Keanu Reeves is a scientist working for a company in a South American country focusing on cloning and trying to preserve the human mind on a computer. This turns out to be super convenient as the scientist loses his wife and kidsIn Replicas, Keanu Reeves is a scientist working for a company in a South American country focusing on cloning and trying to preserve the human mind on a computer. This turns out to be super convenient as the scientist loses his wife and kids in a car crash. Grief-stricken, he clones their bodies and transfers their consciousnesses (as one does). What results is a surprisingly amateurish effort considering the lead.

The dialogue is pretty weak. People do things that don't feel natural. Weirdly enough, the movie explains certain things pretty thoroughly and interestingly, such as the whole lazarus/rebirth process, while other plot points are just revealed abruptly and sloppily.

The acting doesn't help things either. Keanu is on autopilot here. The guy who plays his boss is hit-and-miss. But it's Alice Eve (She's Out of my League; Star Trek into Darkness) who has the worst performance. She acts like an animatronic. (And yes this is even before the cloning. It isn't a something-went-wrong-type situation.) She has two facial expressions: slightly happy and slightly worried. On the plus side, Silicon Valley's Ben Middleditch is the only one who manages to make all the dialogue work. My hat off to him.

It's sad that this movie was botched so badly because the actual general story could have worked. The concepts they explore here are fun and fascinating. A lot of thought did go into how they brought the family back.

To it's credit, the film does look really good. It has excellent color use and picturesque filming locations.

Overall, this is a bad film, but I wouldn't say it was downright painful. I didn't leave regretting having watched it. If you like making fun of bad movies, then you might want to check this out. Otherwise, I can't recommend this.
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JoeCoolMar 23, 2019
Keanu just doesn't seem to be made to play a scientist, he thrives in an action environment. The original idea of the story might hold some interesting possibilities but with the glaring holes, it's just not there yet. Semi-watchable, neverKeanu just doesn't seem to be made to play a scientist, he thrives in an action environment. The original idea of the story might hold some interesting possibilities but with the glaring holes, it's just not there yet. Semi-watchable, never at any point really good or believable. Exciting for a while. A 3 is too harsh, semi-watchable after all but the holes in the story really stop this from being any good. Expand
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moviemitch96Feb 5, 2019
Yes, I'm well aware of how late I am getting around to this, but I wasn't even planning on checking this one out after the reviews that it got, but reluctantly tagged along with a friend who wanted to check it out at the dollar theater. And IYes, I'm well aware of how late I am getting around to this, but I wasn't even planning on checking this one out after the reviews that it got, but reluctantly tagged along with a friend who wanted to check it out at the dollar theater. And I gotta say, while it wasn't terrible like I feared it would be, it's definitely the half-baked and uninspired sci-fi romp that the critics told us it was. With iffy effects, mediocre acting from all involved (including Keanu Reeves unfortunately), unintentionally humorous scenes, and countless sci-fi tropes and cliches thrown into one jumbled mess of a film, it's definitely easily forgettable and disposable. Overall, there are only a small handful of interesting moments, but obviously nowhere near enough to make up for the rest of the film. Expand
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HealingToolboxFeb 12, 2019
This critic perceived it as I did, a movie blundering into areas of values and morality--without anything to say. Only for the bored on Redbox.
Austin Chronicle - Richard Whittaker
Jan 14, 2019 St. John's script is the underlying bug in the
This critic perceived it as I did, a movie blundering into areas of values and morality--without anything to say. Only for the bored on Redbox.
Austin Chronicle - Richard Whittaker
Jan 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.
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SSRJan 27, 2019
The premise is interesting, but numerous plot holes you can drive a lorry through, Keanu's usual odd wooden acting, and a cast that also weren't great. It was just about watchable to see where the chaos was going to end up.
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ty92Jun 20, 2020
Not a bad watch at all but not great either. I would give it a 6.5/10.. It was just missing something. I think more action scenes would of helped. Its worth a watch on Netflix
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