Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Glenn Close, Awkwafina…how can you go wrong. The story seems eerily similar to the 2nd episode of Solos that aired on Amazon Prime, earlier this year, where Anthony Mackie (Falcon) has a clone who replaces him in his house, though we don’t really know why the original had to go away.
I kept thinking, something more was going to happen, some change in pace, some betrayal, some more action…but no, the film is all about the psychology that the author and director behave would be part of a situation like this in the future, if an option was made available to people to replace themselves with identical clones, physically and mentally, with the same memories.
I just saw Naomie Harris as Shriek in Venom: Carnage.
The best part of the film are the accepted future tropes; the robot server in the train, the ever-present in-ear phones, the driverless cars and taxis, the cool interiors, the screens and what we now call ultra-modern design of the houses. And yet, a piano still has to be played as a piano and you can completely disconnect when you remove your lenses, your earplugs and your watch.
It is too slow. Which then makes it distracting, especially when you are not in a movie theatre.
And eventually nothing really happens. The clone takes over and that’s that.