Gemini Man

Like an assault on your eyeballs. Maybe you get used to it, but you shouldn't... Some of the action is fun, but it's really hard to get past the look of it.

Roll up. Roll up. See it now. See it once. And never see it again.

Obviously, the dire dialogue doesn't help, but what blunts Smith's performance and makes the film itself hell to watch is the innovative, ultra-high-frame-rate which renders actors, objects and even the air somehow flimsy and weird and fake.

The same High Frame Rate that make the actors look like they're on Days of Our Lives makes the colors absolutely pop. And those textures on the skulls in the underground ossuary fight scene! It's cooler than the action, anyway.

Gemini Man is a uniquely visually thrilling film backed by Lee's undeniable commitment and ambition.

No matter how many (presumably non-computer-generated) tears Smith sheds, he and Lee never transform this baby hit man into a plausible science-fiction conceit, let alone invest him with a soul.

Smith has the chops to enter a new reflective phase of his career. His younger clone, however, feels oddly lifeless. ... Perhaps it would look better in the proper frame rate.

No amount of digital magic can make up for a story that isn't interesting or characters we don't care about.

Sharply clinical action sequences and digital technical prowess fails to ignite the thrills.

At times "Gemini Man" feels like a demo reel for Ang Lee's high tech new toy, but it's also a reasonably engaging facsimile of a '90s action movie that might remind a few people why we love Will Smith.