After losing his family in a car accident, a synthetic biologist breaks every physical law and ethical barrier to bring them back.
I’ll get right to the point… One of the early debates in the film is between Will Foster – the scientist – and his wife Mona about the existence or not of the “soul”. I don’t know about humans, but Replicas definitely lacks it. Writer Chad St. John seems to know about the tech side of the film, but he, director Jeffrey Nachmanoff and the production team seem to neglect the emotional side: the feeling of desolation that absolutely ruins a man upon losing his family, the feeling of joining them, the feeling of lying down and not getting up ever. Much less, not lying down at all and having the clarity to apply science levels you have never applied before. Especially from Chad St. John I would expect more as he also wrote Peppermint (2018) where he emphasised a lot on the assassination of Riley North’s (Jennifer Garner) family and the soul-crushing aftermath.
And from an allegedly thought-provoking sci-fi/drama, it turns into action… I don’t want to keep on going; you got the gist. Replicas is a messy, soulless film that the cast and crew didn’t believe in, from pre- to postproduction. It could have been a lot more. Shame.
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