Self/Less

Name: Self/Less
Released: 2015-7-10
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Victor Garber, Derek Luke

Self/Less

PG-13
1h 56m
2015

19%

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In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man (Academy Award® winner Ben Kingsley) undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.

Director:

Tarsem Singh

Producer:

Ram Bergman, James D. Stern, Peter Schlessel

Writer:

Alex Pastor, David Pastor

Cast:

Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Victor Garber, Derek Luke, Ben Kingsley

Extras

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Inside SELF/LESS

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On the Run: The Action of SELF/LESS

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Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

19%

Critics Consensus: Self/less boasts a potential-packed premise, but does frustratingly little with it, settling for lackluster action at the expense of interesting ideas.

Reviews

Deep Focus Review

Brian Eggert

Tarsem loses his audience in actionized nonsense, leaving the story's best ideas to remain under-developed, if developed at all.

What should have been a tale of slowly uncorrupting a callous, wayward soul becomes a standard sci-fi body-swapping yarn full of obligatory action sequences.

December 4, 2020

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Kathi Maio

I do wonder what Singh and writers Alex and David Pastor might have done if they had avoided the trite, explosive tropes of an action film for something that actually touched upon the many issues raised by their basic body swap plot...

Self/less falls a bit short of what it could have been but still manages to deliver a thrilling action movie. Perhaps it would have been more suspenseful had we invested in the characters.

Ryan Reynolds makes most films he's in at least worth a watch, but even he can't hide the fact that Self/less is a brain/less and life/less movie.

May 7, 2019

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