Go in for fun, and you should enjoy the ride. But with the pedigree in front and behind the camera and the technology involved, this project should have been something special instead of a slice of average pie made with extraordinary ingredients. If this was just your average piece of counter-programming summer action made on a modest budget - it'd been fine.
With so many different writers attached over the years, it's impossible to know who was responsible for what and/or what if any genuine material was lost in the final cut of the film. You could nitpick the plot, character motivations to death.
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The action sequences are intense and Will Smith is acting his ass off - twice! But the rest of the movie is shallow pond stuff. I will give all due credit to Lee for executing the technology in a way that works far and away better than The Hobbit Trilogy pulled off at 48fps.Īt the end of the day, you have to ask the question "was it all worth it?" Gemini Man is a flawed but enjoyable movie on its own. When the camera is static or limits its movements, everything looks incredible. There are more than a few moments during fight sequences where the human moves and CGI crosses into the land of Uncanny Vally and simply becomes cartoonish. However, when action sequences pick up and wild panning camera movements combined with CGI on top of fast-moving fighting digitally created characters, the effect works against what the eye is registering. Gemini doesn't suffer in natural character movements when people are walking or talking or even some of the grounded action sequences, it looks incredible. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walkoccasionally had that "soap opera" effect whenever anyone moved. There is a true-to-life quality that can often be breathtaking. Most of Gemini Man is simply drop-dead gorgeous to look at in 4K UHD 60fps with Dolby Vision. Outside of the initial adjustment, my eyes settle into the rhythm and I appreciate how stunningly lifelike the imagery can look. I personally don't have anything against HFR films.
Certainly not anything special enough to warrant a massive budget, state of the art technology, on top of being shot at 120fps and in 3D. Unfortunately, the David Benioff, Billy Ray, and Darren Lemke paint by numbers script doesn't accommodate anything special. With Will Smith playing his current age and younger self with a high-pedigree director like Ang Lee at the helm, you naturally expect something special. If Gemini Man had been made with any other actor or director at the helm at a different time, it would be a fine but disposable piece of action entertainment. Instead, we have a film that is a culmination of decades of Production Hell after numerous actors, directors, and writers signed on and quit the production.
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When I first heard of Gemini Man I was actually really excited about the prospect of a resurrection of the Invisible Man inspired 70s TV show starring Ben Murphy and the amazing MST3k episode Riding with Death. With help from burned agent Danny (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Henry has to outwit, outshoot, and outfight his greatest opponent - his own clone. Gemini project leader Clay Verris (Clive Owen) insists on having Henry iced - ASAP. When Henry learns his latest target wasn't what he seemed, his DIA bosses aren't pleased with the prospect of their best weapon knowing too much. An inch or two off the mark and he would have killed an innocent little girl. That's the career legacy of Henry Brogan (Will Smith).
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