![]() ![]() In Gemini Man's final act, Junior figures out that his villainous "father" Clay (Clive Owen) is, well, a villain and joins up with Henry and Danny in an ambiguous attempt to escape. It's a thriller that doesn't care for narrative thrills, and that becomes exacerbated in the finale. The reveal of the younger Henry - already the crux of the marketing - is less a twist and more an inevitability, with teases during a Cartagena, Colombia fight scene undercut by Danny (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) outright saying it before the big reveal all before Junior (the given name for the clone) is properly established. The retirement trope is well-worn, and repeated cutaways to the government suits plotting Brogen's death keep the audience one-step-ahead of the main character. There's something very basic about Gemini Man's plot from the off. The eventual version was adapted from that idea by David Benioff and Billy Ray, but it still remains very true to the core. The concept of an assassin hunted by his younger self was first pitched by Darren Lemke in 1997, with pretty much every A-lister of the past 20 years - from Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt - linked at one point or another. And it's here where everything really stumbles. Indeed, many will likely view it in its standard 2D format, whether in theaters or at home. Yet for all the sparkle, Gemini Man is still a narrative feature. The success of all these effects is mixed, but it's undeniably the core sell. Pushing things further, Lee has attempted to alter the cinematic viewing experience, shooting the film to be viewed in high frame rate 3D. Most immediately, there's the Fresh Prince-era Will Smith, achieved not with Marvel's de rigueur de-aging but a totally digital creation realized via motion capture. TN.Much of the hype for Gemini Man has focused on the technological aspect. Overall, Gemini is a poorly-made film that has amateur actors that do not act well portray characters that behave illogically and a plot that has been written while the writer was taking forty winks. You also get to learn few new words because the story is centered on a spell-bee contest. "Who made this piece of claptrap?!" If watching an arrogant little kid with passive-aggressive qualities behave like the world revolves around her is your idea of a film, then Gemini will be a treat. There are sequences that turn you off so bad, you are going to look at your partner or a family member and shrug. The foundation of this amateur creation is based on roots that do not know anything about filmmaking. Both Esther and director P K Baaburaaj depict her as this cardboard character with no cares to give and demand the audience to cut her some slack. The problem is not with with the character, per se, but how she has been directed and portrayed. I do not empathize with the lead titular character because she is kind of a virago who does not care about the people around her and thinks of herself as a smart-Alec. ![]() There are too many social issues to tackle, including how specially-abed children are bullied and outcast in schools. ![]()
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