Will Smith fights a rubber-faced young clone of himself in Ang Lee's nonsensical 'Gemini Man.' Read Peter Travers' review
a substandard action movie any hack could have directed for producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Lee’s interest was presumably piqued by a technology that would allow A-lister
, 51, to do battle with his 23-year-old self through a digital de-aging process. It’s a neat trick for a few scenes. Then the novelty wears off, and you start to notice that young Will looks rubbery. Not quite. And all the green-screen magic it takes for Smith to mix it up with a mass of pixels passing for a-era version of himself does not compensate for a dull plot, achingly familiar characters and dialogue that’s no fun at all.
The script, credited to David Benioff, Billy Ray and Darren Lemke, has been in development since the 1990’s. Smith plays Henry Brogan, a special-forces assassin who’s ready to retire after 72 kills. Henry wants to go fishing off the Georgia coast, but — guess what — they keep pulling him back in. The poor dude can’t even flirt with a sassy boathouse employee without finding out that she’s Defense Intelligence Agency operative Danny Zakarweski.
There is an admittedly exciting mototcycle chase through the streets of Cartagena, in which Junior tries to end his daddy-clone in a blaze of flaming metal. Another scene, set in the caves of Budapest, pits father and son in hand-to-hand combat — there’s some humor in watching Smith encounter his jug-eared younger self, and the cave-lighting is shadowy enough to maintain the illusion. But in later daylight scenes, the optics show their digital seams.
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