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I think there is a Zen of encountering movies, not unlike encountering people. You need to get beyond the fact that they are incompetent at carrying who they are and dig into the essence of the person. Art is all in the carrying, I think so you might find yourself admiring something that is incompetent, unartful, even repellently stupid if it has an engaging heart. This disaster of a movie has an interesting kernel I think. It is only a disaster because the director and support crew thought that its center was in the thud of flesh between two brutes, a simple serial killer and a simpler cop. But you the viewer have the power to relocate that center to the encounter with self. (For those who don't know the story, evil killer exists. Shadowy federal agency makes a clone and lends it to the discalced cop who is on the case. The cone has "memories" that are used to track the killer. The clone "grows") Set aside the bizarre notion of the US government fighting terrorists by making more of them from scratch. (Insert your own political commentary here.) And set aside the notion that memories convey by genetics. The cool idea here, something like in "Faceoff" or "Purple Rose" or "Last Action Hero," or even "Thirteenth Floor." is that a personal stumbling through life has his stumbles fabricated from blows from the world, but has the ability to see them from the outside. Encountering self is an old idea... in film and literature, and much deeper and more clever notions have been spun than this. But this ain't bad, at least in theory. And for my taste Van Damme is no worse than Li or Arnie and unless you get a real actor everyone else is roughly as good.Read full review
After a girly night in with Mr Pinot Grigio we turned on the TV and this film 'Replicant' was on. It's an absolute cheese fest with Van Damn playing two characters; a killer and a very loveable clone. It might have been the wine, but I jumped onto Ebay and bought it. I've now watched it sober and it's still as I good as I remember!
not a normal part for van dame lot of action but not up to a van bames standerd ghtbit as a vandame fan
as a big lover of van damme i bought this to add to my collection there are some excellent action scenes as you would expect, but it was rather slow and a little boring in places. the plus is that van damme is still looking good.
Excellent film well worth the money ............................................................................
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