Will Smith stars as an aging assassin—and simultaneously, thanks to technological magic, as his younger clone—in a lackluster thriller
Maybe “Gemini Man” would have been more fun if my seat-shaker had kicked in more often. This dreadful sci-fi thriller stars Will Smith as an aging special-forces assassin stalked by a clone of his younger self.
It’s being shown in a 3-D format that is notably, sometimes overly, vivid, thanks to exceptionally bright projection at an unusually high rate of 120 frames per second instead of the normal 24. On top of that, or on bottom, my seat shook at moments of high sonic impact: a bullet train zipping by, a volley of grenades going off. But the frame rate doesn’t speed up the pace—the film bogs down woefully between action...
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