I like Arnie movies: Total Recall, The Terminator, True Lies. Great Fun. I wanted to like this movie too, having read reviews that mentioned Total Recall. I didn't. I hated it. Why?
* The writers came up with something that should be an interesting starting point, the ethical questions about cloning. However, instead of going deeper in the subject, it just misused this premise as an excuse for lots of explosions and car-chases. Absolutely nothing is even mildly original here.
* The special effects are very bad in places (when the bad guy's legg is shot off for example). The CGI effects are so-so.
* The plot doesn't make sense in a lot of places (spoiler alert):
-"You can't clone a brain, but you can clone a whole body". SAY WHAT?!
-Arnie is supposed to be the good, loving father and husband having some moral troubles with the hole cloning thing. But when he's chased by bad guys he immediately starts getting *sadistic pleasures* out of running over them. Makes him completely unlikeable and disgusting IMHO.
I'm all for setting myself in 'brain-dead' mode and going for some good Arnie action, but I couldn't help completely disliking this flick.
* The writers came up with something that should be an interesting starting point, the ethical questions about cloning. However, instead of going deeper in the subject, it just misused this premise as an excuse for lots of explosions and car-chases. Absolutely nothing is even mildly original here.
* The special effects are very bad in places (when the bad guy's legg is shot off for example). The CGI effects are so-so.
* The plot doesn't make sense in a lot of places (spoiler alert):
-"You can't clone a brain, but you can clone a whole body". SAY WHAT?!
- Arnie goes to the re-pet store to clone his dog who just died. After a while, it is suggested that the 'other' Arnie was there before him (The salesman's remark "Still can't make up your mind, huh?"). But, after that Arnie drives home and finds the other Arnie *with the cloned dog"!
-Arnie is supposed to be the good, loving father and husband having some moral troubles with the hole cloning thing. But when he's chased by bad guys he immediately starts getting *sadistic pleasures* out of running over them. Makes him completely unlikeable and disgusting IMHO.
I'm all for setting myself in 'brain-dead' mode and going for some good Arnie action, but I couldn't help completely disliking this flick.