Gemini man was directed by Angley and

stars Will Smith mary elizabeth winstead

Clive Owen and Benedict Wong and is the

story of an expert sharpshooter who's

trying really hard to retire when he

realizes an assassin has been sent after

him and pretty soon he realizes this

assassin is actually a younger version

of himself with a star like Will Smith

at least it's gonna be a really good

production we know that much at least

with angley behind the camera though

that's where things get interesting he

is such a fantastic director he has made

phenomenal movies Crouching Tiger Hidden

Dragon is one of the most visually

sumptuous films I've ever seen and even

though a lot of people have had things

to say about his 2003 Hulk movie there

are aspects of even that film that are

quite beautiful even though overall it's

a mixed bag for me what I'm getting at

is that when he makes a movie I get

excited about it Life of Pi was a visual

breakthrough with that tiger and what

they were able to do and once again he

is applying new technology to this film

and that Will Smith is playing a younger

version of himself and I guess it's not

new per se we've seen things like this

in Captain Marvel with samuel l.jackson

and Clark Gregg this is something that's

becoming more popular now

experimentation with de-aging Marvel's

done a pretty good job with it it

chapter two I thought was awful but

technology wise that's not the only

thing that angley is doing here he also

filmed this movie in 120 frames per

second now a lot of reviews are probably

going to talk about that because that's

very uncommon most movies as you know

are 24 frames per second I actually

shoot my videos at 24 frames as well

even though most people do 30 I prefer

to look at movies and YouTube videos

with that frame rate and so that's what

I've always done but my review is not

going to cover that frame rate because

the screening here in Cleveland was not

only 2d it was in 24 frames per second

and I'm glad because a lot of people

have mentioned that it's very

distracting and I was able to just

purely think about the film the writing

the acting the directing and not worry

so much about the frame rate which to me

would probably be really off-putting

because I didn't like it in The Hobbit

I've never loved that sort of

hyper-stylized soap-opera effect you

call it sometimes motion smoothing on a

TV which I turn off I hate and I don't

want to watch a movie that even

resembles that and since I didn't like

it at 48 frames per second and The

Hobbit I can't even imagine what a

hundred and twenty would look like so

let's just talk about the movie how is

Gemini man I think it's really awful

maybe the worst script of the year for a

mainstream big-budget movie yeah I mean

I don't really want to beat around the

bush on this one this script has been

tossed around Hollywood for a long time

it's been in development hell at one

point in time Mel Gibson was attached

Clint Eastwood a lot of a listers have

tried to make this movie for a long time

and the technology was never up to par

for what they wanted to do but now it is

so the films getting made and it's

credited by a lot of screenwriters more

than likely because many rewrites have

taken place I highly doubt that that

first script is even a shell of what I

saw in this movie Billy Ray has a credit

you may know him from shattered glass or

breach he's a really terrific writer

David Benioff also has a credits who

most people know from Game of Thrones

and nowadays most people know from the

last season of Game of Thrones for

various reasons and the other credit

goes to Darren Lemke not sure how to

pronounce that name but he has credits

on Shazam goosebumps turbo Jack the

giant slayer shrek forever after amongst

other things if you look at what all of

those writers primarily work on none of

them work on similar projects they all

work on different types of films Darren

Lemke is more into animation and

children's family entertainment

whereas Billy Ray does a lot of

political stuff intrigue espionage and

David Benioff is Game of Thrones these

are three writers that couldn't be more

from separate sides of the spectrum

maybe that could make for a really cool

screenplay or it could make for the most

atrocious and jumbled horribly written

screenplay that I've heard and seen on a

screen this year oftentimes exposition

is something that has pinned

as a problem with screenplays every

screenplay needs some it's a necessity

you have to have a little every here and

there hi what's your name my name's

Chris what's her name my name's Ben cool

now we know everyone's names stuff like

that's in every movie but the shit in

this movie is insulting there's an

entire scene in which mary elizabeth

winstead has to tell older Will Smith

that younger Will Smith is definitely

him and she repeats he is you know he is

you know his DNA is a direct match with

you you don't understand he is you like

18 fucking times blew my mind in the

trailer even you can see one of these

scenes where young Will Smith is talking

about how he's a clone let me get this

straight I'm a clone right made from

that other guy's body because he kind of

looked like me

just want to make sure I'm a clone and

you made me right you made a person from

another person and then you sent me to

kill that person right I just want to

make sure that I'm clear on this you've

made a person out of another person

then you sent me to killing it beyond

the screenplay the film meanders for

quite a bit in the early minutes the

scenes leading up to him discovering his

younger self are boring really boring

because most actors in the movie don't

even seem remotely invested and I don't

understand how that's even possible I

can't comment on the frame rate but I

can comment on the de-aging technology

there are scenes where it's

jaw-droppingly perfect most of those

scenes are in the dark there's some

sequences like an underground sewer

system and those look really good like

you can see the pores and the sweat and

it's just fantastic

but there's a scene in broad daylight

with young Will Smith that is laughable

I mean it's shockingly obviously

apparent that it's CGI and there isn't

an ounce of me that believed it I don't

understand how it was even approved to

be in the final draft but all of this

could at least be salvaged if the action

was entertaining and visceral the action

in the movie is time is passable there's

a pretty great motorcycle chase that

ends in absurdity but for like two

minutes it was awesome but then young

Will Smith starts boxing with his

motorcycle on two older Will Smith you

using his motorcycle like a fucking

boxing glove sounds pretty cool I guess

and now you want to see it probably but

man was that funny in the theater but

then in fight scenes or gun shootouts he

for some reason keeps the camera really

tight the whole time this was really

strange to me again I I must reference

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon that is as

close to perfect as some movies can get

that is such a phenomenal film and I

have no idea how the same person

directed this movie this feels like a

committee project that has been shoved

through a shredder and then reassembled

with tape but I'll tell you this this

movie is going to find an audience of

people who like it and some people will

probably think I'm being too harsh on

the movie and that's okay but in my

opinion this is sort of

like the Transformers - paradox where

when I first saw that movie with a lot

of my friends many of them thought it

was fucking awesome and over the years

they started to hate the movie a movie

can be visually compelling filled with

a-list stars and a great production

behind it

everything looks fucking cool and it can

make you not realize how truly shit the

script is the badness of this movie is

very well hidden in the incredible cast

and directing talent I have no idea how

this movie ever got to be this bad

because it's been in development for so

long and it had so much behind it but

it's easily one of my least favorite

films of the whole year I'm gonna give

Gemini man a D guys if you do end up

seeing the film I'm curious to know what

you thought of it thank you so much as