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weistobi Totally confused, illogical uncompleted storytelling, that movie does not make any sense. The visuals are kind of nice, but that's about it. No idea who gave this a good rating, for me it was a waste of time.Same advice as the other reviews: save your time for something worthwile, this movie is just bad.

dragoshilbert Somewhere in the future, a couple have a romantic night and a swat team pay them a visit to kidnap the girl. The man, aka the hero, is receiving help by phone from a mysterious voice and leads him to a high-tech company. This hero is confused but focused, something that is hard to comprehend. Also, why in the future is still a need to use wiretap is beyond me.The visuals are nice, but the movie is annoying with repetitions and image shaking. It is like the whole point is to make you confuse, or maybe the Director thinks that you cannot focus so everything needs to be explained. The movie main point is the identity but why confusing people when this subject requires a clear discussion? Maybe some money to be spend?

Jane Riley Identicals is based on a very original idea and looks fantastic. A vision of the not too distant future that feels recognizable but with a hint of strange. The idea that there are other copies of yourself at large, trying out all these different lives that are available and maybe one day are coming for your life seems not so impossible if you see yourself as a fragmented person. There were moments where I would have liked the main character Slater to be a bit more decisive - in that way the film might be a bit too much like real life – but he comes through in the end. Great!

Jacques Du Rand I completely understand the frustration and the sense of feeling lost most people have experienced with this film. It is not going to be everybody's cup of tea and I would almost dare say this is a film made for a film student to analyze. Identicals, not very aptly titled, is like a slow hand that keeps testing your borders as a viewer with its sensual cinematography and a very intense focused story-line that plays away from the usual action based plot lines, but rather becomes a cat and mouse of reactions. It sits very difficult from a psychological point of view since it uses very subtle nuances in film making to keep the viewer feeling uncomfortable and I think this discomfort has probably been experienced by many to be "boredom". We are uncertain throughout who is the cat and who is the mouse while the story unfolds and the two main players keep pushing back and forth testing boundaries and trying to find each other's " you" factor. It is The Nines (2007) meets Melancholia (2011) meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Far from perfect, I felt that this was a story that could have either be told as a short film in 30 minutes or that left a lot of room for additional story creation, yet at the same time's it's slow pace and sad melancholy allows for the very deep complex and delicate themes to work its way down and make it a little bit easier to ease into it. Bottom-line is that here we have a C-story-line that is being told as an A-story-line with all the emotional subtleties and the quiet/slow timing that a C-story-line require. Definitely an existential film that questions the process of reinvention of the self and the how much control you have given the influence of external factors (including your own addictions – aka addiction to another person) and co-dependency on a certain reality that you have come to depend upon as "real". The film's biggest flaw is that it was classified as a Science Fiction rather than Experimental or Surreal. While watching I was reminded of the firs translation I ever read of Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which has been seen as the first Science Fiction novel ever written. Also, similar to this film, it lacked a definitely story definition, but rather presented the "experience of" a certain journey. I would, for myself, give this film an 9 star rating, but down this to 7, because I think that in presentation, it does not allow itself to reach as wide an audience as it could.