Gemini Man
Rating
C (74/100)
Three words
Underwhelming, Action, Unspecial
Brief Review
An aging elite assassin is targeted by a young assassin who is eerily similar to him. For some reason the advertising for Gemini Man decided it would just give away the only twist in the movie. I promise that I don’t give spoilers in my reviews, so amazingly what follows isn’t a spoiler. I’m not really sure what they were thinking with the trailer because it tells you the whole twist. Had they not given away that Will Smith was being pursued by his clone, then this movie would have had potential. I think they just assumed everyone would be enamored with the anti-aging technology and would just forget that they were watching a totally unremarkable movie. Well, I didn’t forget. Once you get past the cool factor of seeing a much younger Will Smith next to an older Will Smith, I’m not really sure what the goal was here. You had a good cast and in theory an interesting story, but they did absolutely nothing with it. They don’t do anything with the fact that they are clones, in-fact it basically doesn’t even matter to the movie. On top of that, they don’t do anything with the rest of the story. It was just a frustrating movie to watch because you can see the potential but it was so mediocre. Now after all the bashing of it, it wasn’t horrible. I was entertained during it. It just became a fairly normal spy movie. Think like a sub-par version of the Jason Bourne series. I was just underwhelmed. I won’t be watching Gemini Man again, partially because it wasn’t anything special, but mainly because it was just so underwhelming because of what it could have been.
