Replicas

https://youtu.be/ze_ANsckvS0

Before seeing Replicas, I had read multiple reviews, not professional reviews but actual people’s opinions after seeing it, all of which were very negative. Now sometimes when you go in to see a movie with high expectations, it falls short. The reverse is true too, low expectations tend to make a movie seem better. I enjoyed Replicas. Was it the best movie? Absolutely not. Was it the worst? Not at all.

The most common thing I had read was that the accident that pushes the movie forward (not a spoiler, you know this from the trailer) happens too soon in the movie to have true character development for those involved. It does happen early on, and I kind of wish they had given about another 5-7 minutes for character development, but it didn’t hurt the movie as drastically as I had been expecting.

Replicas does have the pace of two different movies. The beginning runs a little slow, not too slow, but slower than the rest of the movie. The second half of the movie runs a lot quicker than the beginning, as a movie honestly should.

The first act of a movie is where you should learn about the characters. The second act being where the “conflict” of the story happens. The third act is where the resolution of said conflict happens. I’ve seen movies that follow this with definitive boundaries that break up the movie perfectly evenly (a 2 hour movie broken up into 40 minute intervals for example). Replicas skews those boundaries where the second act is a major portion of the movie with smaller first and third acts.

All in all, seeing Replicas was worth it. Like I mentioned earlier, it’s not the greatest movie nor the worst. To further cement that statement, I’ve attached a countdown of the 18 Keanu Reeves movies I’ve seen, along with 10 of his that I have yet to see but should have. Replicas falls perfectly in the middle of this list at #9.

Haven’t seen yet:

1. Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
2. Point Break (1991)
3. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
4. Hardball
5. Something’s Gotta Give
6. Constantine
7. 47 Ronin
8. John Wick
9. The Neon Demon
10. John Wick: Chapter 2

Have seen:

1. Speed
2. The Matrix
3. The Replacements
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still
5. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
6. Knock Knock
7. The Matrix Reloaded
8. The Matrix Revolutions
9. Replicas
10. The Lake House
11. The Devil’s Advocate
12. Keanu
13. Sweet November
14. The Gift (2000)
15. Dangerous Liaisons
16. Chain Reaction
17. The Watcher
18. Johnny Mnemonic