Replicas || Review

Replicas

Release Year: 2019
Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction
Duration: 107 mins
Country: USA, Puerto Rico
Language: English

Again a sci-fi action movie and of course again Keanu Reeves.

To be honest, this man should play only in action movies. Maybe except his ''To the Bones'' movie, I can't like his romance/dram/comedy movies even though I like him and his acting. For example, I dislike ''Destination Wedding'' and I don't know if its because of his actions or the chemistry between protagonists. Whatever, let's get back to our main topic.

Replicas, with the most basics of the movie, is a neuroscience and genes. (Also, it's questioning entity and similar terms with a deep sight but you know, these human-specific emotional and moral stuffs are not my pair of shoes.)

While watching the movie, two things directly came to my mind. You can clearly see the references of the HGP, human genome project at first and most specifically human cloning. Then Fringe. Yeah, it might be kinda seem irrelevant in this case but in the first episode of Fringe (2008) called 'Pilot', they manipulated brain waves to occur a transfer and I didn't find it reasonable though. The way of process reminds me it.

Actually, I don't know how to review this movie though. It was too much pseudoscience even for me.

Was it worth to watch? Yeah, might be.

However, was really rational by the fiction and its facts? This might be disappointed but probably not.

I still have many doubts about the movie. Especially when i think about the planaria experiment which is usually mistaken as ''Memory transfer through cannibalism'' in the past, this issue was always a problematic and unsolved case due to many factors affecting it. Like, yes we all know that if the memory transfer is possible then probably RNA might have the biggest role on this because memory storage during synaptic formation.

Beside everything, let's say we managed everything somehow and transferred the memory. Then would't there be more lethologica than usually we experience throughout the day?

What about psychogenic- Wait a second... Am I being too nerdy here? Sorry, I don't want to bore you but neuroscience is one of my main interest beside many areas in biology so I might have been a bit hyped up. Let me explain you its basics.

Just like in computers, the information must be encoded first to be usable and. Then it is storage as or in memory and retrieval process helps you to recall them. As all we know, this system is not 100% flawless and fragile, most of these systems are happening by neurons and electrical impulses. And memories are usually like pokemons, they are stored and spawn so randomly. How could they have dealt with all these factors and made a successful progress?

In movie, they say they manage this transfer by mathematical algorithms with using programming. It's all about saving the memories from a dying person before its brain activity gets damaged, especially following data on EEG, frontal electroencephalographic recordings means a lot in this case.

However, since it is a sci-fi, yes these gaps are normal to have and they are all theories which might be turn into real facts. We might have been missing some points with the technology of ours but they can be true by more advanced knowledge. Okay, but what about the scene lap dissolves? I couldn't find them pretty well thought and maybe they would have made it more effective or interesting for the audience. As a positive comment, I can say that tones of scenes in the movie was compatible in general and doesn't tire your eyes.

There were many ethically illegal actions in the movie and in my opinion, those are helper points to maintain the philosophical side of it. You know, those 'machines without soul cannot be accepted as human' and sort of similar things. Most of people wouldn't able to accept two things as they are in the artificial intelligence: Am I died? Am I a human?

And then probably, main idea of the movie was that: ''What makes a human really human?''

Overall, the movie was not awful but not totally satisfying with its features though. I tried to review it as objective as I can be but if there're some stuff related to my interest and I have knowledge about it, that's not easy. I guess, you don't lose many things if you don't watch this movie.

My rating: 3/5