It is never too late to see an old film. Although the film is already five years old, I had never seen this movie before, and I don’t regret that at all!
This is the typical film about a “psycho-kid” who wants to kill his mother with an axe. The only fresh issue to add to this old-fashioned portrait is the controversial subject that cloning consists of.
I rate this movie 3 out of 10. It just doesn’t seem like a Mark Bomback film. This film was incredibly inaccurate about science issues, such as “memory genes” and “a mouse that ate another mouse, gaining his memories”: this is nonsense. The plot is wondrously awful and, sometimes, verisimilar, leaving the audience with such a poor ending: the ending scene is very similar to the other ones; it didn’t seem like an ending at all!
I think that perhaps the only positive feature about this film (should we call it film, or Mexican soap-opera?) is the fact that it is absolutely breath-taking in some scenes, such as the one in which Adam sees the shower blind being ripped! The FX crew did an amazing job on that.
Overall, I think this film is rather disappointing. I don’t discard Mark Bomback’s ability to write good plots… I just think that this one simply wasn’t one of his best.
I paid nothing to see this film. If I had seen it at the cinema, I would have fairly claimed a refund. Quoting the comic-book store guy in “The Simpsons” I say: worst movie ever!
José Pedro Fonseca, 11thD, Escola Secundária D. Afonso Sanches, Vila do Conde
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