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Jul 10, 2015 · Which makes the result, “Self/less,” all the more frustrating. "Self/less" is a bland, generic product that almost defiantly refuses to explore the complex issues which it raises, perhaps in an effort to appeal to a wider audience.
Jul 4, 2015 · Ben Kingsley plays a New York real estate mogul who pays big bucks to have his consciousness microwaved into Ryan Reynolds ‘ body in “Self/less,” but the real reheating of leftovers has already...
Jul 10, 2015 · Self/less: Directed by Tarsem Singh. With Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Ben Kingsley. A dying real estate mogul transfers his consciousness into a healthy young body, but soon finds that neither the procedure nor the company that performed it are quite what they seem.
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- 2015-07-10
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Jul 10, 2015 · Self/less is a lot like its evil biogenetic company, Phoenix: It makes lofty promises, but its execution is lacking. So what begins as a taut, thoughtful sci-fi thriller turns into just another overlong fistfight.
- Tarsem Singh
- Cheating death… at a cost
- Verdict
By Josh Lasser
Posted: Jul 4, 2015 4:00 pm
Are there people truly important enough that they should be allowed to live forever? Does the answer change if there is a great cost to extending that life?
These are the main questions asked in Tarsem Singh's latest film, Self/Less. As interesting as they may be, they aren't answered all that well. Instead, things devolve into middling action sequences rather than exploring the philosophical questions at the movie's core.
In Self/Less, as explained to Ben Kingsley's Donald Trump-esque real estate mogul, there is a secretive process, called "shedding," created by Professor Albright (Matthew Goode), that can transfer people's consciousness out of their body and into a new one which Albright has been able to make in a lab. Albright offers this procedure to Kingsley's character, Damian, because Albright believes that the world would be a lesser place without Damian, that he is one of the planet's "greatest minds."
On the face of it, the very notion sounds foolish for a multitude of reasons. Chiefly there is the fact that everything we see of Damian makes it appear that he hasn't been the greatest of guys during his life. On a personal level, he is estranged from his daughter, Claire (Michelle Dockery), because of his own actions and on a business level we see him metaphorically cut the legs off another real estate developer because he took offense to the way said developer went about pursuing a contract.
With a fun, even if not brilliantly original, concept at its core, Self/Less promises to make the audience think about the way we approach life, and whether one human being is more worthy of life than another. Rather than answering these questions though, the movie devolves into a long chase sequence and then entirely omits the real moment of truth...
Jul 9, 2015 · Each of us has unique mental hardware, which is why it's likely not possible to simply download your consciousness onto another person, or to a computer, for that matter.
