If you’re just interested in well choreographed and edited action sequences: see it. Also, kudos to convicingly pulling off the Will Smith clone (minus his final scene), something which must’ve been extremely hard to do given that he’s constantly moving around during the action sequences. However, the story of this film feels very paint-by-numbers and uses way too much exposition on top of that. The set-up takes a lot from _The Bourne Identity_, minus the memory loss. That’s not inherently a bad thing, but this has none of the interesting characterization, pace or grit from a Bourne film on top of that. Stylistically, there’s a glossiness and fakeness to it all. Everything is overlit, it ocassonially looks like characters are standing in front of green screen (which I’m pretty sure they aren’t), and there’s a fluidity to the movement during the action scenes which makes it look like animation. I don’t know how much of that is a result of the special cameras they used, and how much comes from bad CGI/cinematography/lighting, but I do know that not all of the innovation here is also an improvement.

4.5/10

Ps:
If you’re someone who loves motion smoothing and oversaturated colours on your tv system—> watch it in HFR
If you have taste —> don’t watch it in HFR.

What a bad movie. It's a copy-and-paste sci-fi action movie. The 3D HFR experience isn't worth it either. I don't know if it was the cinema, me or the editor of this film. But the 3D was terrible and wasn't complimented by the high frame rate.

The story is trash. I can't believe this got made. The only praise I can give it is that it's underlining message is fine and the CGI on young Will Smith is incredible (except in daylight). But it's one we have seen everywhere and this cloning aspect was a bit fascinating at first. But they handled it awfully. One scene I thought was going to be great, it was set up ok and the tension was built from Will Smith's monologue earlier. Even though the script is terrible. However, this scene was too short and all that holds it together is the script. Again, it's bad, so the scene dangles on a thread when it could have been a lovely character piece. The action is eh, and unintentionally funny at times (that damn motorbike). Maybe I'm being too harsh on the action here because of the horrible configuration of the 3D I was subjected to. But even afterwards, I feel like it was too cutty.

I am baffled at how bad this turned out to be. This is so far, the worst movie of the year I've seen.

**2/10**

You made a person out of another person, then you sent me to kill him. You made a choice to do this to me.

Gemini Man is directed by Ang Lee and co-written by David Benioff and Darren Lemke. It stars Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen and Benedict Wong. Music is by Lorne Balfe and cinematography by Dione Beebe.

Henry Brogan (Will Smith) is an aging but elite assassin who's ready to call it quits. However, his plans are put on hold when he suddenly becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. The assassin who stalks him has a very familiar feel to him...

Lets not beat around the bush, Smith and Winstead deserve a better screenplay than this. The writing is weak and lazy, Lee is clearly the wrong director for such a high concept action film, while the action scenes are shoddy in effects. In fact the storyline, as trite as it is, is unfairly in a constant battle against the CGI on show.

However, film never sits still and refuses to let boredom take a hold. The lead actors are engaging enough to hold attention throughout, and even as the sugary coatings fill out the final throes, we at least can acknowledge there were earnest intentions to make an existential clone thriller here. But with Jerry Bruckheimer on production you can see there's a popcorn action film trying to break free of the literary treacle.

Hardly the worst clone sci-fier that some have called it, but it's not memorable either. Think of it more as a time filler for the curious about the subject to hand. 6/10

Not at all bad and pretty watchable action-thriller, but also outside some of the effects and fight choreography (when you can see what's going on), not terribly memorable either.

Also, using 60 fps was a bit off-putting, especially with the daylight scenes making this look cheaper than it probably was, at times feeling like you're watching something online or even on 1x fast forward. Not entirely sure why Ang Lee went in that direction, but didn't work for me.

All in all, maybe worth a rental but certainly far from a best effort from both Lee and Will Smith. **3.25/5**

Really good watch, would watch again, and can recommend.

If there is someone you want to put on the screen twice, then I understand it being Will Smith, and the rest of the cast is great. This might even have been the role that got Mary Elizabeth Winstead into the Huntress role later on.

I think they specifically reference it a some point in the movie, but a lot of the story is Will Smith fighting himself. The action sequences are solid, the scary secret spy organization is scary and secretive, and there are even a few "twists" along the way.

My biggest problem is that this entire movie is unnecessary. If Clive Owen's character wasn't basically a super villain, then he could have left old Will Smith retire and no one would be the wiser. That might have possibly been a better movie, though I think Star Wars might be a point against me there.

Long short: it's good, it's great action, it's not world moving, but does include a touch of sci-fi (/sci-fact, we're on that border). It just has a bad clash of reality that people and organizations like that exist, and we pay for them.