It's not that it's a bad idea, (the old switch the brain into someone else's body which has been done numerous times) it's just that it doesn't seem to go anywhere and the actors don't seem to care what is going on (except for a former wife, whose husband has been replaced). All they have added here is that the switching is done in an underhand way which I'll leave the details out to those who haven't seen it.
Take the music/soundtrack. It's terrible. Sounds like elevator music. Saved on budget perhaps?. Compare this to Blade Runner or Oblivion.
The movie doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. Melancholic like Blade Runner? No. Action packed like Minority Report, where the agent also goes underground to right a wrong?. Not really. He goes rogue but then meets associates throughout the film and they hardly even care. Paradoxical, unpredictable and intriguing like Edge of Tomorrow, within an existential threat? No, just a couple of people running some sort of identity scam. I came out wondering what was the point.
Yes, it had meaning for the individual characters, their lives and their identities, but there just didn't seem to be any emotional resonance or reason to what they were doing. It's almost as if the film-makers deliberately took out the emotional content, and told the actors they were all in some sort of dream and not to care too much about the details. And so the audience doesn't really care either.
Needed major re-writes/re-doing to get more emotional involvement and resonance.
Take the music/soundtrack. It's terrible. Sounds like elevator music. Saved on budget perhaps?. Compare this to Blade Runner or Oblivion.
The movie doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. Melancholic like Blade Runner? No. Action packed like Minority Report, where the agent also goes underground to right a wrong?. Not really. He goes rogue but then meets associates throughout the film and they hardly even care. Paradoxical, unpredictable and intriguing like Edge of Tomorrow, within an existential threat? No, just a couple of people running some sort of identity scam. I came out wondering what was the point.
Yes, it had meaning for the individual characters, their lives and their identities, but there just didn't seem to be any emotional resonance or reason to what they were doing. It's almost as if the film-makers deliberately took out the emotional content, and told the actors they were all in some sort of dream and not to care too much about the details. And so the audience doesn't really care either.
Needed major re-writes/re-doing to get more emotional involvement and resonance.