Replicas (2019)

I love me some Keanu, but this almost snapped me out of that decades-long given. The dude doesn't so much need to stay in "his lane" as to simply stay OUT of the one in which he cannot believably swim: brainiac. But, even if we overlook his unsuitability for the role, the story itself is a groaner.

It has some promise: a scientist working on a project to download a human brain into a new/robot body is being stymied by the brain's rejection of its new circumstance. That's cool. But, when his wife and three children are killed in an accident, he has to hurry and figure that shit out in order to keep his family (albeit in clone form). If that isn't ridiculous enough, there's the twist that he has to let one of his children stay dead due to insufficient equipment capacity. To minimize the stress on his clone family, his solution is to basically run a "find and delete" of any memories of that kid in their brains. But what about all of the non-family members who knew the girl? Won't they be curious about where she is? Her teachers... grandparents... friends...? Ugh. It's so dumb.

D+