This is a movie about androids made of steel, recycled human tissue and cloned cells that one day become awake. Unfortunately the later can't be said about the film itself although or rather because it shows similar qualities as the creatures it portrays. We have lots of recycled lines in the script, cloned characters and the acting might not be called made of steel but is certainly to be considered wooden. And as said the whole thing never really comes to life.
Don't get me wrong, it would not necessarily be a bad thing to have dialogs that quote several classics, show well known archetypes facing well known struggles and overcoming them by heroism, but what this movie gives us is just a bad hush hush version of said things. It almost seems they just wanted to make a movie with Willis in it and something with science fiction (surrogates was not so bad either, was it?).
I only pity the actors in it (and everyone who actually pays to see it). The script is so weak and the directing so bad, that even a slightly interesting plot cant make up for it and so all we do is watch a not so bad cast suffer through the lines. I find that no matter how good an actress or an actor is, if they are left with bad dialog in awkward situations without any help from the director they are doomed to fail. And that is the case here in my view.
What i would have liked to see here is a focus right from the start on the main character = the girl and make it a bit of a mystery so the viewer has to find out what is going on while relating more and more to her. Then it wouldn't even be so bad to have the usual hero that helps the damsel in distress. and i think it would have provided a lot more interesting situations and a better story-arc.
What we really get is a sledgehammer version where the writer found it necessary to explain everything to the audience (as you (should) know ....) alongside with over the top acting just to make a point (like that the bad guy is really really bad).
Anyways, not enough to make it a good experience and even a mediocre movie: 3 out of 10 (any decent movie gets at least a 5 with me, and for every remarkable feature like e.g. the acting, photography, dialog, etc. one point extra. vice versa if the movie is severely lacking in these departments i subtract one point. so i will add one point to 5 for the plot (which could have made for a better movie i feel) and subtract one point each for the acting, the dialog and the directing)
Don't get me wrong, it would not necessarily be a bad thing to have dialogs that quote several classics, show well known archetypes facing well known struggles and overcoming them by heroism, but what this movie gives us is just a bad hush hush version of said things. It almost seems they just wanted to make a movie with Willis in it and something with science fiction (surrogates was not so bad either, was it?).
I only pity the actors in it (and everyone who actually pays to see it). The script is so weak and the directing so bad, that even a slightly interesting plot cant make up for it and so all we do is watch a not so bad cast suffer through the lines. I find that no matter how good an actress or an actor is, if they are left with bad dialog in awkward situations without any help from the director they are doomed to fail. And that is the case here in my view.
What i would have liked to see here is a focus right from the start on the main character = the girl and make it a bit of a mystery so the viewer has to find out what is going on while relating more and more to her. Then it wouldn't even be so bad to have the usual hero that helps the damsel in distress. and i think it would have provided a lot more interesting situations and a better story-arc.
What we really get is a sledgehammer version where the writer found it necessary to explain everything to the audience (as you (should) know ....) alongside with over the top acting just to make a point (like that the bad guy is really really bad).
Anyways, not enough to make it a good experience and even a mediocre movie: 3 out of 10 (any decent movie gets at least a 5 with me, and for every remarkable feature like e.g. the acting, photography, dialog, etc. one point extra. vice versa if the movie is severely lacking in these departments i subtract one point. so i will add one point to 5 for the plot (which could have made for a better movie i feel) and subtract one point each for the acting, the dialog and the directing)