Oh dear! What has happened to Neo? Obviously he has taken a bunch of blue pills and is frozen solid in this cruel wonderland called Replicas. While films call for some amount of suspension of disbelief, the plot holes in Replicas knock logic and coherence out of the stadium.
- Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
- Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch
- Runtime: 107 minutes
- Story line: A neuroscientist loses his family in an accident and decides to resurrect them, laughing in the face of ethics and science
William Foster is a neuroscientist, he is working on cutting edge stuff in a fancy lab in Puerto Rico with his doctor wife Mona (we assume she is a doctor, she talks of going to the clinic) and three perfect children, Sophie, Matt and Zoe.
Foster is working on melding the brain of dead soldiers to a robot while his friend and assistant, Ed Whittle is working on cloning. After a hurried conversation with Mona, where she accuses Foster of playing god, the family head off for a boating trip, disaster strikes, and all except Foster are killed.
Foster decides to resurrect his family and with Ed’s help clones them and imprints their brains on the clones. If you thought retribution awaits Foster for messing with natural laws, nothing like that happens, unless being stuck in a hideous film is punishment. Actually nothing happens in the movie, after a bunch of scenes tacked on together, the music swells to indicate the film is done.
Keanu Reeves as Foster gives it his all — narrowing his eyes into slits and saying heavy-duty science-y things. The others look worried and dazed in turn as the movie wheezes to the end. Let’s just wait for that Pet Sematary reboot shall we?