Gemini Man

2.5 Stars!

I gave this movie 2.5 stars because Will Smith is the main character and a household name. If he were not the star of the movie, it probably would have gotten two stars from me. The plot was pretty predictable in some ways. Will smith works for the DIA. His job for the past twenty-five years has been to take out bad guys. The movie begins with his retirement from this gig. He gets classified information from a friend that the last job he took, was not what he thought. The person he was ordered to kill had done nothing wrong, and it was his own employer's deceit, lies, and motive that he was fulfilling. When his employers find out that he is aware of what they've been doing, they set out to kill him. They send one of their best to do the job: his clone. Accept, he was never aware that he had a clone. This is the most interesting part of the movie. The clone tries to kill him on a few occasions unsuccessfully. Eventually, he tells the clone what's been going on and they become partners teaming up to kill the people who were responsible for all of this. That's when the movie gets a little cheesy. Then there's the happily ever after at the end. Will Smith's humor comes out in several scenes of the movie, so that helps it a little bit but I think what freaked me out the most is that his clone looks like a simulation towards the end of the movie. You can tell that its a computer animation and not a real person. I didn't like that and wondered why they weren't better with the special effects. If you like action movies that don't have a lot of drama or emotional baggage, this ones for you.