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49 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganSeen at 60 frames per second (fps) on 3D-Plus (2K resolution), Ang Lee’s action spectacular Gemini Man proved a compulsive watch: not for the usual ingredients of can’t-look-away Hollywood cinema such as acting – Will Smith takes a dual role - or plot, both of which fell a little flat, and seemed almost wilfully generic. As a viewing experience, though, this picture delivers as a prototype of future action film-making.
- 50Paste MagazineTim GriersonPaste MagazineTim GriersonUnfortunately, Gemini Man is saddled with a fatally weak story, almost as if Lee chose a predictable action-thriller narrative so that he could focus his energy on the effects and frame rate. But the result is a quirky-looking movie that’s generally boring.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattSomehow though, the film registers as a strange, airless whiff — stale, inert, and oddly melancholy. The script rarely rises above the schematics of a thousand thrillers that languish on late-night cable, and the almost willfully cliché dialogue sounds as if it’s been generated by some kind of free-with-purchase screenwriting app.
- 40Total FilmJamie GrahamTotal FilmJamie GrahamCome for the technical innovations, stay for… hmm. Two Will Smiths for the price of one just ain’t worth it.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe digital novelty is striking for the first 10 minutes, silly for the next 10 minutes, and by the end of the movie you’re pining for the analogue values of script and direction.
- 40EmpireEmpireIt gives you two Will Smiths for the price of one, but you still might feel ripped off by its clunky dialogue, thin characters and underwhelming action. Encourage your younger clone to avoid it.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe disappointing end result feels less than the sum of the talents involved, a weak script and thin high-concept plot only just held together by smart visual wizardry.
- 30VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeGemini Man is a case in which an awful lot of effort has gone into making an awfully lazy action movie.
- 25Unfortunately, the Gemini Man that Ang Lee has finally made has such risible dialogue, such perfunctory characterization, and such rudimentary international-espionage plotting that viewers will soon stop asking why it took so long to go into production, and start asking why it went into production at all.