When Smith showed up on “The Late Show” he talked about working with Lee and the technical aspects of the film. The technology continued to be the focus of interviews as Lee commented again on the process of experimentation with higher frame rates and more.Ĭlive Owen’s appearance on “The Tonight Show” had him talking about the movie and lots more. Later on an interview with Smith revealed his younger iteration isn’t the result of deaging technology but is a completely CGI, motion capture performance. Lee, along with members of the visual effects team, spoke about the care they put into digitally altering Smith’s face and how they wanted that to be organic in the story. Just a ticket-centric website for the movie, with no additional materials or information. Instead, Henry just shoots Varris in the head and calls it a day.You can read my full recap of the marketing campaign for Gemini Man at The Hollywood Reporter. It actually makes a bit of sense, though you could easily argue that clones are people too and removing their emotions (which is Varris’ latest scientific breakthrough) is pretty much the definition of evil. He argues that clone soldiers are a better alternative than human casualties. When that doesn’t work either, Varris shows up in person and attempts to talk some sense into Henry and Junior. That’s when Varris reveals his trump card, another Will Smith dressed in a bulletproof combat suit. Of course, the plan backfires when Junior finds out he’s a clone, and after a couple of epic fight scenes, the two Will Smiths team up to take down Varris. That’s Junior, who’s raised by Varris and sicced on Henry after he attempts to retire from government service. The central premise of Gemini Man is that Varris’ company, Gemini, has figured out a way to clone humans and then used it to create a perfect copy of the world’s best assassin, Henry Brogan (Will Smith). Warning: Huge spoilers for the end of Gemini Man below. It turns out that even Ang Lee noticed this flaw in his movie, and at a press event in September attended by Inverse, he revealed how the studio attempted to fix the issue with a last-minute change. I’m talking about the previous scene where our heroes finally confront Gemini Man’s villain, the evil military contractor Clay Varris (Clive Owen) - and he comes across as the sanest guy in the room.

The ending of Ang Lee’s new film illustrates it’s many issues particularly well, and no, I’m not talking about the final scene where the quality of CGI’d Will Smith drops like a YouTube video on shoddy wifi.

Gemini Man might be the most impressive feat of cinematic technology in Hollywood history, but it’s still not a very good movie.

Gemini by Chris Owen