10 Awful Movies From 2018 With Awesome Concepts

3. Replicas

The Pitch: In a future where transferring human consciousness into androids is possible, a neuroscientist (Keanu Reeves) defies the law to resurrect his family, who recently died in a car accident.

The Reality: Replicas is a movie which, with a better script, probably could've secured both a sizeable budget and the interest of a name director.

Instead, screenwriter Chad St. John (London Has Fallen) could only land TV director Jeffrey Nachmanoff, in what turned out to be a shameless paycheck role for Keanu Reeves.

Despite the initial intrigue of its transhuman premise, Replicas quickly embarrasses itself with an avalanche of convoluted plot developments, painfully bad dialogue, wooden performances - especially Alice Eve as Reeves' wife - bland direction and hilariously bad CGI.

On one hand Replicas is a so-bad-it's-good cult classic in the making, but had it been developed with greater care and a bigger budget, it actually could've been a neat little cult sci-fi flick.

Instead, it dines out on the ideas of prior, superior movies, every scene feels like they just settled for the first take and Reeves looks like he wishes he was literally anywhere else.