Self/less
God Created Man. Man Created Immortality.
God Created Man. Man Created Immortality.
Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
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2015
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An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.
Director:
Cast:
Same Director
Details
Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
117 min
Release date:
10 Jul 2015
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$26,000,000
Revenue:
$31,807,156
Awards:
N/A
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
A sci-fi thriller so derivative of John Frankenheimer's masterfully paranoid Seconds it would be more accurate to call it Thirds, Tarsem Singh's Self/less is a generic waste of a clever idea.
– David Ehrlich,
Time Out,
13 Jul 2015
rotten:
Tarsem Singh has a reputation for making movies that are visually stunning but woefully inert and convoluted in their storytelling (see The Cell and The Fall). Singh's most recent film, Self/less, lives up to at least half of that reputation.
– Nathan Rabin,
Globe and Mail,
13 Jul 2015
rotten:
What starts out as an interesting exploration of identity soon gives way to the uninspired, generic action flick we had feared it always was.
– Bilge Ebiri,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
12 Jul 2015
rotten:
Deep under the skin of this shrug of a movie is a solid metaphor rooted in an appealing fantasy.
– Tasha Robinson,
NPR,
12 Jul 2015
rotten:
There's no reason to spoil what follows except to say that even by the standards of both Alfred Hitchcock and science fiction, it's nonsensical.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
10 Jul 2015