Director: Danny Dones
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi/Comedy
Plot:
Arriving at a remote hideout, a group of criminals gather together with their latest addition to the gang trying to figure out what happened to their latest mission. While they figure out what to do, they realize they’re being targeted by a never-ending group of authority figures known as the Clone Cops, created in a lab by a scientist in a ploy to keep a highly-rated TV show afloat. When the criminals realize the nature of their latest member and how it’s all connected to their appearance on the show, they set out to stop the rampaging clones and get away alive.
Review:
This was a massively enjoyable genre effort. The central idea of everything, with the team arriving at the hideout and trying to figure out how to stop the seemingly relentless squad of goons coming after them created by a crazed scientist and his assistant as a replicating squad of clones to usher in wave after wave of forces to overwhelm their enemy, sets up an immensely intriguing premise that goes rather nicely here. The whole idea of this being a form of TV show livestreamed to others online and not making anyone aware of everything is a fun reveal which helps to explain the series of increasingly larger collections of the cloned cops coming after them as the constant arrival of new clones means new ways to initiate defense plans and how to implement them.
That there's such a wild and chaotic energy to these scenes, as well as the scenes in the lab where the workers are trying to placate their worried bosses about what's taking the clones so long or the strained process for creating more clones that then wonder why the intelligence of the creations when a batch proves less intelligent and cognizant of what's going on. This adds a lot of fun and lighthearted energy to everything going on around them, making the film fun enough to hold up over a few flaws. The main issue here is the reveal of everything being a TV show coming in so early in the running time that it really could've had more impact as a genuine twist reveal going on rather than taken just as a regular conversation with how casually it comes about. This is the only real thing holding it back.
Overview: ****/5
A rather enjoyable take on this kind of material, there's a lot to like here and not too many in the way of flaws which just make this one fun and quirky enough to offset its drawbacks. Those with an interest in the material or the type of indie genre efforts will have a lot to like while those turned off by the style or approach should heed caution.
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