After his wife (Alice Eve) and children (Emily Alyn Lind,
Emjay Anthony and Aria Lyric Leabu) are killed in a car accident, a scientist
(excruciatingly earnest Keanu Reeves) who has been experimenting with injecting
human consciousness into robots secretly teams with a colleague (Thomas
Middleditch) who specializes in cloning to create copies of the deceased using
their DNA and their mental data. He runs into a number of stumbling blocks,
including the dilemma of only having the capacity to replicate two of his three
kids and the pressure exerted on him by his hard-driving boss (John Ortiz) to
devote his attention to his so-far unsuccessful work or face having the
multi-million-dollar project defunded. Emotions are shallow and moral themes
underdeveloped in director Jeffrey Nachmanoff’s dull sci-fi misfire.
Watch out for: Brief
violence with little gore, obscured rear and partial nudity, a few uses of
profanity, at least one milder oath, much crude language.
Rated: A-III, adults; MPAA:
PG-13
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