Director Tarsem Singh
Staring Ben Kingsley, Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez & Matthew Goode
Rated M
Score 2/6

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.

There was an interesting enough concept for this piece of science fiction and the questions that it raises about the whole idea of human mortality and what the world would be like for the rest of us if the truly brilliant where given the opportunity for what amounts to a second life. Director Tarsem Singh delivered a movie that’s watchable but with the cast that was involved Self/Less was nowhere as good as it should have been, because it came across as feeling a little flat. Singh was unable to deliver the pace and the level of emotion that was needed for the final act of the movie. The only decent performance in the movie was given by Ben Kingsley who was only in the opening act of the movie the lead actor duties where then turned over to Ryan Reynolds, who has a great range as an actor but I couldn’t help but think that there were times when he was phoning in his performance.
This probably wouldn’t even my favorite Sci-fi ‘Body-Swapping” movie of the last fifteen years, which is Canadian director Allan Moyle’s movie from 2000 called Xchange. Now admittedly it’s not very fresh in my mind (so maybe I might have to revisit it) but what little I do remember of it I can safely say is that unlike Tarsem Singh, Moyle actually knows how to keep his movies at a decent pace.