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This movie is set in the
future and the XFL still exists, so this movie lost all credibility with me within the first two minutes. How am I supposed to believe in your dystopian future when you can’t even predict the XFL’s
demise? Even better, we open with a quote from Genesis…which is always
a bad thing if you don’t immediately follow up with a biblical epic or zombie attack.
So Schwarzenegger plays Adam Gibson who’s a futuristic CG
helicopter pilot who runs trips to the top of mountains for XTREME snowboarders who have to flip it and rip it XTREME. It’s the kind of job Xander Cage would have retired to had he not been killed
between XXX films. Anyway instead of hardcore snowboarding we get some righteous
assassination action and Adam gets cloned in a goofy paperwork mix up and arrives home one evening to find that he’s
already there. Awkward! Just like
in Back to the Future 3 where Marty runs into Marty from 10 minutes ago and has to beat the past Marty to death to preserve
the space-time continuum, there can be only one Adam Gibson.
It’s
probably about time I mention the villain, his name is Drucker and he’s what we call at the Cliché Sci-Fi Villain Academy
a “number 23” or more precisely “Megalomaniacal Industrialist Tycoon Prone To Needlessly Lengthy Exposition
Who Will Use Your Loved Ones As Bait”. Drucker sends his minions out to
kill the real Gibson (or Gibson originale) before his surreptitious cloning operation is discovered. I do like how the goon
squad keeps dying and has to be recloned and how annoying that is for them and how expensive and annoying it is for Drucker. It’s the kind of cute black humor this movie should have stuck with instead
of taking itself way too seriously and trying to be some sort of chase thriller/morality play with liberal product placements. The film’s message seems to be this: God
wouldn’t approve of cloning so it’s a bad thing, also buy a car with OnStar.
Which is a really lazy way to answer your movie’s question. And
since this is really the only answer this movie has got it’s just wasting your time with all that chase crap and two
Ahnolds crap and having actual actors like Robert Duvall and Michael Rappaport in it.
So move along, nothing to see here.
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