Clone, which was also released under the name Womb, is a different, and frankly kind of weird movie starring Eva Green (the first Bond Girl in the Daniel Craig Bond movie Casino Royale and the star of the series Penny Dreadful) and Matt Smith (from Doctor Who).
The plot of the movie is not overly complicated. Green and Smith play Rebecca and Thomas, a young couple in love. When he is killed in an accident, she decides to use his DNA to create a cloned embryo and carry him to term and raise the clone as her child. Then the movie basically spans a twenty-year time frame as the clone grows up and yet Rebecca never ages.
I will not say anything more to avoid spoiling the movie for those who have not seen it. I will say that while not everything in the movie made a lot of sense, and it could be slowly paced in spots (which is something for a movie that is just over an hour and a half long), Green does a great acting job. There are times in the movie when there is not a lot of dialogue and Green pretty much carries the movie via her facial expressions. It most definitely has the feel of a small-budget independent movie, but it is mostly well-written, and very well acted. I do think it could have spent a bit more time on Thomas and Rebecca's relationship before his death and which would have provided a bit more depth to the end of the movie.
The movie looks very good on Blu-Ray, with great cinematography of the locations in Germany. There are not much in the way of extras, just a few trailers, no making-of or behind-the-scenes material. I have not seen the movie streaming on any of the major streaming services, however, so if you want it the DVD or Blu-Ray is probably your best bet.
The plot of the movie is not overly complicated. Green and Smith play Rebecca and Thomas, a young couple in love. When he is killed in an accident, she decides to use his DNA to create a cloned embryo and carry him to term and raise the clone as her child. Then the movie basically spans a twenty-year time frame as the clone grows up and yet Rebecca never ages.
I will not say anything more to avoid spoiling the movie for those who have not seen it. I will say that while not everything in the movie made a lot of sense, and it could be slowly paced in spots (which is something for a movie that is just over an hour and a half long), Green does a great acting job. There are times in the movie when there is not a lot of dialogue and Green pretty much carries the movie via her facial expressions. It most definitely has the feel of a small-budget independent movie, but it is mostly well-written, and very well acted. I do think it could have spent a bit more time on Thomas and Rebecca's relationship before his death and which would have provided a bit more depth to the end of the movie.
The movie looks very good on Blu-Ray, with great cinematography of the locations in Germany. There are not much in the way of extras, just a few trailers, no making-of or behind-the-scenes material. I have not seen the movie streaming on any of the major streaming services, however, so if you want it the DVD or Blu-Ray is probably your best bet.
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