Gemini movie will smith11/14/2023 ![]() The irony is this project has been floating through Hollywood over 20 years and previously has seen the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, and Clint Eastwood all consider playing the man who is both old and young (presumably with prosthetic makeup back then). With contributions from the likes of David Benioff ( Game of Thrones), Billy Ray ( The Hunger Games), and Darren Lemke ( Goosebumps), Gemini Man is filled with audible duds like Smith saying with a straight face to Winstead’s startled-from-bed secret agent, “Not gun time, coffee time.” Twice. ![]() The ugliness of the visuals, however, should not shield the awful screenplay. Additionally, the movie can never thread the needle between its dour tone and nonsensical storyline, creating weird flourishes like Baby Will Smith literally slapping Old Man Will Smith with the wheel of a speeding motorbike… and it only leaving a small scratch. Excitingly paced and beautifully composed, one motorbike chase through the streets of Colombia would be particularly kinetic if not for the fact it aesthetically looks like those VHS tapes that used to come with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. This is a shame because several of the action sequences are actually shot with dynamic motion by Lee. With the high frame count essentially speeding up motion so fight scenes appear like someone’s struggling with the fast forward button, the many bouts of fisticuffs are jerky and comical, while some of the daytime chases resemble low-grade video reels of extreme sports, also from the ‘90s. However, the effect is enhanced here due to the inclusion of 3D action sequences. And that’s before they digitally de-age him.Įven more than Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Gemini Man is an inexplicable eyesore of excessive frame rates, unintentionally resembling ancient software during its dialogue scenes. Over-lighting every set to compensate for the tactless visuals, the movie is disturbingly unreal whenever Will Smith stares into the camera to spout exposition. ![]() Gemini Man is similarly haunted by director Ang Lee’s continually baffling choice to shoot movies in 120 frames per second. The characters were real, their conversations had conviction, but they were doomed by uncanny valley visuals and stilted presentation. If you’re too young to have been blessed with classics like The 7th Guest or Tim Curry’s Frankenstein game, back in the day they hired Hollywood talent to act before blue screens that would be filled out with digital photographs of real sets. Sure, the movie stars one of that decade’s biggest names, and it’s definitely based on a relic from a pitch meeting of that era, but the real nostalgia here is for the point-and-click puzzlers it so eerily resembles with its deadly photography. While watching Gemini Man, I was taken back to the ‘90s, although not necessarily for the reasons you think.
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