Gemini Man Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

5. The Hilariously Awful Script

After listening to more than a few lines of dialogue from this film, you won't be surprised to learn that various versions of the script have been around for over 20 years, constantly re-written while Hollywood waited for digital de-aging technology to catch up to its vision.

Yet even with the many, many rewrites, the film for the most part feels like a naff high-concept action-thriller ripped straight from the mid-90s, with its outrageously cornball dialogue, shameless amount of exposition and lame "humour."

Though the cast sure is trying to make it work, it's embarrassing that anyone would greenlight a script so lazy and rough around the edges, in terms of its plot, characters and, worst of all, the spoken word.

Moreover, that Will Smith was swayed by such dreck is all the more baffling - not that he's always proven himself the best judge of a project, mind.