Dual (2022)

Great Sci-Fi that relies on the story and not unnecessary over-the-top special effects. I felt like this movie could be telling about what we have in store in the future. Every character is somewhat robotic, and without feeling or personality...much like a society where indoctrination has voided all critical thought and reason. That's my take anyway.

Beautifully shot, score was well done, and acting really portrayed the uncaring nature of society. Great film!

Fmovies: I'm wondering if the director of this movie is autistic? Everybody speaks like robots and act like machines.... there are only 3 scenes where people display "human" emotions!! And the setting is wrong, instead of the background being a boring and quaint town, it should've been a futuristic and oppressive police-state, only then this cloning technology would be credible.

Conclusion, this movie shouldn't have ever made it to theaters and instead, it should be in the $3 dollar bin at the local walmart.

Imagine there's a clone, who's now living in your home, an almost perfect doppelganger, taken straight from the lab's hanger. It's a sympathetic swap, as your time has come to drop, all your family need to know, is you'll never let them go.

Though your clock continues ticking, while your feet are all still kicking, and the one who thinks they're you, has made an impressive debut. But the law has made a rule, to remove one in a duel, when your name is on the roster, you can fight your own imposter.

Not that original and with little reflective value.

Dual fmovies. I'm a dude and I can't stop chuckling from start to finish. Haven't laughed from a good movie in ages.

The dark comedy is SPOT ON!

It's kinda similar to Patriot series, in which the main character never once smiled or made jokes, but you'd find yourselves laughing to the floor.

The other characters, especially the boyfriend, lend a nice support to the whole theme.

This is defo not one of those cringey comedies that fails to even make you giggle.

I wish I'd have known it was the "Art of Self-Defense" guy going into this. I was expecting something vey different from the trailer. Something more interesting or exciting. Even knowing that now I still dont think it comes close to measuring up.

The premise is true to the synopsis. Sarah is dying and decides to get cloned, but upon learning she wont be dying, in order to live she has to kill her clone in ritual combat. Sounds really cool. Its not. It's drab and boring, not accidently, intentionally. Everyone talks like robots and you're supposed to be only amused by the general absurdity of it all. Its barely longer than a short film, so that is literally all of it.

The problem is that it's just not funny or interesting. There's no highs or lows here. There's no humor in 90% of the film. Theres exactly 2 gags and the rest is played painfully straight. It's hard to describe but imagine a wes anderson movie except theres nothing hipster, bizarre or ridiculous. Its very very subdued, cloyingly desperate for you to think it's funny because of that. It reminded me of the Monty Python sketch "I came for an argument", except played straight and there's no punchlines or audience surrogate and you're supposed to laugh at the idea of such a facility. You get what its "trying" to do, but instead of laughing you just roll your eyes and feel bored.

Whats really disappointing is that I liked the "Art of Self-defense". It was pretty wacky and out there. There was some tension, hilarity and twists. Remove all that and this is what you have.

I assume this wes anderson-esque monotone absurdist comedy is this writer/director style otherwise Id say this movie would have worked better if the characters all acted like real people. If it "needs" to have this tone then it needed to be much more interesting or ridiculous. Like have them hunting each other throughout the movie instead of it mostly being people sitting around being awkward robots.

I'd give it a lower score but theres a few scenes I briefly found "fun". Especially when Karen Gillian gets angry and actually shows some emotion. I wanted much more of that. Otherwise this doesn't rate slowburn. Its just boring.

Maybe it's supposed to be dry humour and they just completely failed at that, cause let's face it it's not a thriller or sci fi. What were the notes they gave Karen Gillan? "We need you to give a robotic performance, but do it like your an actress who doesn't know how to act"?

Painful to watch, tedious (very simple) story, nothing interesting or new. I mean it wasn't even interesting to look at, no skilled cinematography, I'm really struggling to find something positive.

It gets two stars, because there are worse movies out there but not many.