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B- |
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B |
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B- |
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| Direction: |
C |
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B |
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Make up your mind
by Frapples (movies profile)
May 24, 2008
10
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10 people found this review helpful
I had heard so many bad things prior to watching this movie that I almost took a pass. I really wanted to see it though because it was a huge deal here in Detroit when they were filming scenes locally. That turned out to be a dud. About the only part I could attribute to Detroit was the car chase that was filmed indoors. That was the old Train Depot here.
What I found weird about the movie was it really didn't have an identity. It sets up as a sci-fi thriller with the genetics and GATTACA type themes. I liked the scene where the clones were reading Dick and Jane. After the scene where we see Michael Clarke Duncan getting his liver removed (I think he was great in this small part), the movie decides to change it's mind and become Terminator 4. The special effects just take over and our two naive, 15 year old mentality clones manage to elude a team of special forces hit men who have rocket cycle, choppers and access to the electronic networks that no one can escape. Yet Lincoln and Jordan do.
Mind you the special effects are not cheesy it's just that they dominate the second half of the movie making you forget the original story line. The movie is entertaining, I just wish it didn't have that massive chasm that I felt between the two parts. |
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