There was a recent TV series called "Dollhouse" where mostly vacant "dolls", adult men and women, were kept in a hidden secret facility and when a wealthy client needed a person with highly specialized skills a doll could be loaded up for the assignment.
This movie isn't exactly like that but many of its themes are similar. A mad scientist has developed a way to grow human-like creatures just waiting for a complete consciousness to be put into them. He sees it as a way for the important and wealthy to become immortal, they continue functioning in a different, younger, healthy body.
Very wealthy New York developer, Ben Kingsley as Damian, is approaching 70 and has some health issues. In fact he has been told he has only 6 more months. But he learns about the secret "Shedd" process and contacts the mad scientist. He shows him a body, they make the swap, Damian is able to resume life in this younger body. Of course it all happens in beautiful New Orleans. The secret lab is in a West Bank warehouse used for Mardi Gras float storage.
This younger body is Ryan Reynolds who begins the life of the younger Damian. He has to take some special medicine on a regular schedule to avoid rejection of his new memories. But when he is late he has visions, flashes of other things and people, and he soon realizes the truth. The body he is in has not been grown in a lab, it is the body of another person. He sets out on a quest to find the real identity of the body he is now sharing.
Natalie Martinez, who was so miscast and bad as a cop on "Under the Dome", is pretty effective here as Madeline with the young child. Matthew Goode is good as the mad scientist Albright. The always reliable Victor Garber is good as Damian long-time business partner Martin.
Overall the movie is good entertainment. It isn't too long and moves along at a nice pace. The concept is intriguing but of course all Sci-Fi.
SPOILERS: The new Damian finds Madeline and child in the St Louis area (actually a west bank location along the Mississippi River levee) after he has a vision of a pumpkin-painted water tower. He is her husband who had disappeared, she thought he was dead, he had sold his body to provide medical care for their young daughter. Now that Damian knew the whole operation was criminal he set out to track them down, which he does with some difficulties along the way. When he quits taking the rejection medicine he reverts to who he was, he and his family end up on a tropical island where no one can find them. And I suppose Damian died a peaceful mental and emotional death by fading away.
This movie isn't exactly like that but many of its themes are similar. A mad scientist has developed a way to grow human-like creatures just waiting for a complete consciousness to be put into them. He sees it as a way for the important and wealthy to become immortal, they continue functioning in a different, younger, healthy body.
Very wealthy New York developer, Ben Kingsley as Damian, is approaching 70 and has some health issues. In fact he has been told he has only 6 more months. But he learns about the secret "Shedd" process and contacts the mad scientist. He shows him a body, they make the swap, Damian is able to resume life in this younger body. Of course it all happens in beautiful New Orleans. The secret lab is in a West Bank warehouse used for Mardi Gras float storage.
This younger body is Ryan Reynolds who begins the life of the younger Damian. He has to take some special medicine on a regular schedule to avoid rejection of his new memories. But when he is late he has visions, flashes of other things and people, and he soon realizes the truth. The body he is in has not been grown in a lab, it is the body of another person. He sets out on a quest to find the real identity of the body he is now sharing.
Natalie Martinez, who was so miscast and bad as a cop on "Under the Dome", is pretty effective here as Madeline with the young child. Matthew Goode is good as the mad scientist Albright. The always reliable Victor Garber is good as Damian long-time business partner Martin.
Overall the movie is good entertainment. It isn't too long and moves along at a nice pace. The concept is intriguing but of course all Sci-Fi.
SPOILERS: The new Damian finds Madeline and child in the St Louis area (actually a west bank location along the Mississippi River levee) after he has a vision of a pumpkin-painted water tower. He is her husband who had disappeared, she thought he was dead, he had sold his body to provide medical care for their young daughter. Now that Damian knew the whole operation was criminal he set out to track them down, which he does with some difficulties along the way. When he quits taking the rejection medicine he reverts to who he was, he and his family end up on a tropical island where no one can find them. And I suppose Damian died a peaceful mental and emotional death by fading away.