welcome back to movie recaps today i
will show you a sci-fi
thriller film from 2018 titled replicas
spoilers ahead watch out and take care a
helicopter carrying a precious load
flies onto the island of arecibo
puerto rico william is waiting in his
office for the cargo to arrive
the helicopter lands on the property of
bionine industries and instantly the
entire facility is being informed of its
arrival
william joins scott and margaret as they
walk toward the experimental laboratory
he asks them if the donor has signed the
necessary documents
and here's the announcement grabs his
things and heads on there as well
the donor is being placed and unpacked
in the laboratory next to a robot body
william and ed talk about the details of
the donor's death then proceed with the
experiment
ed checks the donor's cortex activity
and declares him to be viable
william concurs with the findings and
tells everyone that his biological brain
will be replicated inside of a synthetic
brain
he tells ed to begin the process the
neural probe designed to perform the
task is engaged and the process of
transferring the soldier's brain begins
william initiates the neural imprint and
works on the application of the human
mind onto the synthetic one
he activates all of the functions of the
mind and tells margaret to energize the
body
the replica awakens and william
addresses it by name as it starts moving
it asks who he is and william explains
that he has transitioned into a
synthetic brain
while coming online it begins to freak
out and rip itself apart
tearing out part by part until william
shuts the subject down
williams speaks to jones about the
progress they've just had
jones isn't impressed that the subject
spoke for the first time and tells him
that they need bigger results to hold on
to the shareholders of the company
william tells him that his family had
made too many sacrifices for his life's
work
he promises jones that he is very close
to a breakthrough
later william drives home and meets his
wife mona in front of the house packing
the car for a trip
he rushes inside and sees that his kids
matt zoe and sophie aren't packed yet
either
ed walks into their house and sophie
gives him her pet fish telling him not
to overfeed him
he asks william if he talked to jones
and if he got fired yet
mona overhears them talking as ed
explains that the subject ripped itself
apart
however william interrupts him and tells
her that it spoke she says that if it
could speak then it could also feel and
that he shouldn't bring people from the
dead until he works everything out
since mona is a doctor she doesn't like
that people might be suffering in his
trials
they pack the car and he tells her that
he's on the verge of a breakthrough but
something is preventing the synthetic to
achieve consciousness
mona says that they might be missing a
soul william doesn't think so
saying that it's all neurochemistry she
hates his answer and tells him that
maybe he's losing sight of what's right
and wrong
egg greets them off later they're
driving in the rain and almost hit a
truck
it's a close call but they're fine
suddenly a tree hits the car and kills
mona then william drives off a cliff and
into the water
he regains consciousness and checks if
anyone is alive
no one apart from him has survived the
crash william doesn't call an ambulance
but instead he called ed
he's brought their equipment there and
follows william to the bodies
william asks him to help him but ed
thinks that they should call the police
eventually ed changes his mind and helps
william transfer the minds of his family
into the equipment
they get to the facility and ed tells
him that there is a reason why he hasn't
made human clones yet because they never
turn out right
he asks william if he's prepared to
terminate the process if something goes
wrong
william doesn't give a straight answer
he just wants to do it
ed shows him the pods in which he could
replicate the bodies but he's worried
that williams still hasn't perfected the
process of transferring the mind
they get to the bodies and william
pleads with that not to share what has
happened to anyone
furthermore he asks him to get rid of
the bodies he agrees and tells him that
he'll meet him back at the house
when ed arrives there he opens the truck
and william sees that there are only
three pots to make the bodies
he can't choose which member of his
family to resurrect so he writes their
names on a piece of paper and asks head
to pick
he refuses to do that as well and
william needs to choose himself
the paper he's taken out of the bowl is
zoe later ed
explains to him how he should take care
of the pods and how to maintain the
chemical balance inside
but the most important thing is to
maintain the energy in the pods
they must never go out of power william
however doesn't have a backup generator
so he finds a lot of car batteries and
attaches them to the pods
ed tells him the clones will need 17
days to come out and he has until then
to give them consciousness
he asks him what will happen to zoe
williams says that he'll delete her
memory from their drives and they'll
never remember her
later he's seen deleting the memory of
zoey from the minds of the others
but the hard drive with her
consciousness is still active a few days
later
ed is at work and runs into jones who
asks him about william not showing up
for work
he lies about why he's not there then
jones tells him to inform him that if
they don't see progress with the
synthetic soon
they will get shut down ed calls william
to tell him that
saying that if they get shut down the
company will look for the expensive
equipment that is now in his possession
william tells him that he needs to come
to the house and watch the pod so he can
go to work
as soon as he settles at work jones pays
him a visit and doesn't seem too
concerned that he might be sick
on his desk he sees zoe's drawing and
when he goes back home he has it with
him
as he's walking to his front door he
runs into matt's teacher who has come to
check up on him because he hasn't been
to school in five days
and has handled that situation by
telling her that the boy has chickenpox
then he asks william why he hasn't
called the kids school and mona's work
to tell them something
as if he was expecting that no one would
notice his entire family disappear
later he takes out all of their laptops
and phones he uses them to email the
kids school and also to text with his
children's friends
making it look like they're still alive
meanwhile margaret is overseeing the
reparations on the robot body
william is working from home trying to
find a way to transfer the mind from one
body to another
he runs an unsuccessful simulation and
is beginning to lose hope
the clones are almost ready ed keeps
covering him at work and he keeps
running one simulation after another
17 days since the accident ed comes to
william's house to get the clones out of
the pods
william tells him that he's not ready
yet because he doesn't know why the last
experiment failed
ed explains that every moment they stay
in the pods they continue to age so
waiting for him to figure it out isn't
an option
william decides to sedate them so he
could keep their minds in a blank state
ed tells him that he can only keep them
sedated for 72 hours and no more
they start draining his wife's pot and
she starts breathing by herself
william sedates her instantly and is
excited that their experiment worked
later they set up force for the clones
and ed leaves saying he'll come back
tomorrow to check up on them
william continues to go through the
footage of the previous experiment and
still has no clue why it failed
that night he's ready to terminate his
wife when he gets a call from jones
as he's talking to him he notices that
each time he touches mona's clone
her heartbeat goes up when ed arrives to
the house
william tells him that he's figured it
all out he takes him up to mona and
shows him what he's found out
then he explains that the reason why the
brain transfer doesn't work is because
it's not in its own body
when they put it in a synthetic brain
the mind freaks out when it can't find
its own flesh
the solution to the problem of
transferring the mind into a synthetic
one is to trick it into thinking that
it's in its own body
and it should be even simpler with his
family because the bodies are their
clones
they get ready to initiate the process
of transferring mona's mind into the
body of the clone
william coordinates the uploading
process then initiates the imprint
when it's done ed freaks out that
nothing is happening when she suddenly
begins to convulse
she wakes up and recognizes him so he
puts her back to sleep until he does the
same with the kids and prepares the
house for them
at the end of the day after all of it is
done ed leaves and tells him that
they'll see each other at work
william gets back to the house and
begins to clean it up and get rid of the
evidence of everything that happened
lastly he needs to get rid of all of
zoe's things and make it look like she
never existed
he packs all of her things and throws
them away later that night
he lies down in bed next to his wife
william wakes up the next day and finds
mona gone
when he rushes downstairs he sees them
all having breakfast like nothing has
ever happened
mona says that she feels great and goes
out for a run the kids ask for pancakes
and he makes some for them
mona is jogging when she suddenly just
an ache in her abdomen
when she gets back sophie pours milk in
a cup and they see that it's curdled
mona says that she just got it the other
day william gets a call from ed
telling him that they have an incoming
donor at work and that if he doesn't
want their secret exposed he should be
there
he tells the clone family that he has to
leave for work and they don't see
anything wrong about that
but mona does find his behavior strange
william gets to work
him and ed are preparing the donor for
the transfer but he deems him non-viable
because he doesn't want to make another
one go through the phase of rejection
again
and the suffering that it might bring
jones is breathing down their necks and
ed is upset that they didn't do it
william gets the idea to transfer his
own mind into the synthetic brain
so he takes the transfer equipment to
the toilet and performs the transference
protocol on himself
meanwhile sophie and mona look for their
cell phones and they can't find them
anywhere
mona feels strange back at the facility
william finds ed and tells him what he
did
he explains that he will write an
algorithm which will help bridges
imprint to the artificial body
effectively tricking the synthetic brain
that the body is his the added benefit
of it being him inside that body will be
that he will be able to establish
himself as the baseline for the
transferred consciousness
william gets back home that night and
finds mona upset immediately telling him
that she feels like something is wrong
with her
she can't remember a lot of things that
happened during the past few weeks
he comforts her and tells her that she
should rest he goes to the basement and
writes the algorithm
the drive with his consciousness is set
next to zoe's later
sophie has a nightmare about her mom
dying and calls for her but william
comes in her room and tells her that she
just had a bad dream
he takes her back to the basement and
overwrites her memory so that it
excludes the memory of them dying
mona catches him there and asks what
he's done to sophie she wants to know
the truth
william tells her that he brought them
back from the dead they have a
conversation later on and she asked him
how he could do that
he tells her that he couldn't bear
loosing them and that he had to do it
she understands the next day the family
meets with ed at the market
mona thinks she sees something and
almost remembers zoe
they have dinner together that night and
william asks them if they should move
back home
sophie asks who zoe is telling him that
the name is scribbled in her closet with
a crayon
the three of them begin remembering
little bits about her and mona confronts
william about it
he tries to lie to her but she sees
right through him
suddenly the doorbell rings william
opens the door for jones who greets mona
and asks for a quick word with him
he tells him that he knows everything
about what he has done and calls his
family subjects of the trial and
possession of the company
jones isn't ready to have them walking
around like everything is normal
fearing the consequences if someone
finds out about them william tries to
negotiate with him by telling him that
he knows how to get the synthetic brain
to work
unfortunately jones isn't after that he
explains that the company isn't even a
biomedical one
but is actually part of the weapons
industry jones has another plan for his
findings
he tells him to give him the algorithm
then say goodbye to his family
william goes to get the algorithm and
jones texts to assassins to get ready
when he gets back he tries to drug jones
but just ends up knocking him out
he destroys the algorithm and explains
everything about zoe to mona and about
the company that he works for
william tells her that they need to run
they get into the car and escape before
the assassins realize what is happening
jones wakes up and sees the destroyed
algorithm realizing that it's
unsalvageable
one of his men comes in and shows him
the tracker they have on the family
he tells him not to shoot them in the
head simultaneously
a car starts chasing the family ramming
into them they quickly manage to escape
william tells mona that the trackers are
inside of them attached to the central
nervous system and that they can't get
them out
mona has another idea about that and
tells him to drive to the clinic where
she works
when they arrive mona gets them in a
room and tells sophie to get on the bed
as she prepares a defibrillator
she explains that she can fry the
trackers that way meanwhile the
assassins arrive at the hospital and see
that one tracker goes dark
mona places the defibrillator on matt's
chest next and shocks him
the assassins kill the security guard as
william is getting ready to shock mona
her tracker disappears and the assassins
don't find them the family escapes the
hospital
jones calls someone william has driven
them to the marina and goes to check if
he can get to ed's boat
while he looks for the keys the
assassins arrive at the marina and grab
the kids in mona
he sees them being taken away but
doesn't get to them in time
ed is at the office and jones hands him
back his boat keys as mona and the kids
are being taken inside
he tells mona that william just needs to
cooperate and that everything will be
all right
she says that they'll just kill them
meanwhile william arrives at the
facility
ed explains how everything with jones
went down telling her that he was an on
it from the very beginning
william walks in and apologizes to him
then he tries to negotiate with jones
who kills ed to make his threats more
powerful william recreates the algorithm
for jones and begins the imprinting
process inside of the synthetic brain
he energizes the body without anyone's
knowledge it begins to move and breaks
through its restraints
william goes back to jones and gives him
the algorithm just as jones is getting
ready to kill mona
the robot walks inside saying that he's
there to protect his family
the assassins shoot at him but it tears
through them like butter
the family gets in the car and is
prepared to leave but william can't just
leave the robot behind
mona tells him to go he stops it from
killing jones right at the nick of time
the two of them converse and the robot
says that the body feels like it's his
own
jones tells him that even if they kill
him the company will still go after them
william and the robot offer jones a deal
that he can't refuse
the robot tells him that he should go
with the family and that it should stay
back and deal with jones
it makes an imprint out of jones's mind
17 days later
a clone is ready to get out of its pod
the family is having a vacation on a
beach and william brings zoe to them
mona embraces her fondly some time later
jones is in dubai selling williams
invention to a rich old man
the robot is the one that does the work
for jones
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