Self/Less2015
Self/Less (2015)
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Critic Consensus: Self/less boasts a potential-packed premise, but does frustratingly little with it, settling for lackluster action at the expense of interesting ideas.
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Cast
as Young Damian
as Madeline
as Albright
as Damian
as Anton
as Martin
as Claire
as Judy
as Anna
as Carl
as Anton 2
as Dr. Jensen
as Phyllis Jensen
as Mallory
as EMT
as EMT
as Ambulance Driver
as Doctor X-Ray
as Lab Technician
as Andrea
as Leah
as Chauffeur
as Gate Agent
as Dickish Cousin
as Retirement Home Manager
as Tony
as Recovery Mercenary
as Beautfiul Girl
as Beautiful Girl
as Beautiful Girl
as Beautiful Girl
as Beautiful Girl
as Himself
as Dancer
as Dancer
as Mercenary
as Tap Dancer
as Tap Dancer
as Tap Dancer
as Hallway Lab Tech
as Coalition Volunteer
as Maitre'd
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Critic Reviews for Self/Less
All Critics (143) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (116) | DVD (1)
Reynolds's failure to display the faintest trace (verbal, physical) of Kingsley's character negates any potential mind/ body tension. Self/less? Point/less!
Tragically, the film itself is as dumb as a doorknob.
Tarsem Singh's sleekly shot sci-fi thriller begins intriguingly but loses its identity.
Anonymously slick and rarely betraying a sense of humour, Self/less might not mind a discreet facelift, but it much more urgently needs a personality transplant.
Entertaining nonsense, but barely skimming the surface of a great idea.
There's a Twilight Zone premise - though sadly no Twilight Zone brevity or script discipline - to this sci-fi thriller.
Audience Reviews for Self/Less
Though its themes are a bit familiar, Self/less is an exciting and provocative film. When faced with his impending death a wealthy businessman named Damian Hale undergoes an experimental procedure to have his consciousness placed into a genetically engineered body, but after experiencing several vivid hallucinations he discovers that he's actually been placed inside the body of another person whose mind is being suppressed. Ryan Reynolds gives a strong performance, as does Ben Kingsley. And the film does a good job at exploring the moral questions that arise from extending life and switching bodies, along with the nature of life and what makes up a person. Extraordinarily compelling, Self/less is a smart and well-crafted sci-fi thriller.
Super Reviewer
An uber-rich guy who is dying finds out about a way to live longer through some science fiction, which is a nice start to the piece and a decent idea for a story. Then it degenerates into a standard chase montage with the ever present people pointing guns at other people scenes. Eh.
Super Reviewer
More intriguing in premise than in practice, Self/Less is still none the less an entertaining sci-fi movie with intermittent moments of cleverness and heart. What makes it unusual is the quality of its actors. Reynolds and Kingsley are more than proven in the field, but in Self/Less they (particularly Kingsley) go from nailing it to mailing it seemingly at random, then switch back to A-grade the very next scene. Where I had trouble making a connection to the narrative of the movie was in the body switching aspect. It's made clear that Kingsley has awoken in Reynold's body, but at no point in the film did it really feel like this was anything other than a completely new character, rather than an old one in a new form. Still Self/Less is one of the more engaging films I've seen this year.
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| Albright: | Do you feel immortal? |