Disturbing yet enthralling

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Michael Keaton returns to the light comedy genre he was known for back in the 1980s before he went all dark knight on us.Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton) is an overworked construction supervisor for a company that takes him granted and only cares for the bottom line. The people who work under him constantly mess up or turn up late. He is being pressured to work at the weekends, as his boss tells him. We have a saying if you do not show up to work on Saturday do not bother to turn up on Sunday.This leaves him with little time with his wife Laura (Andie MacDowell) and the kids and his wants to go back to work as the kids are now old enough.Doug encounters a scientist, Dr Leeds on his latest job at the Gemini Institute which is involved in cloning. Doug ends up with three versions of himself but they are not all like him in intellect or personality. The clones are supposed to make life easier for Doug who thought he could spend time relaxing but in fact complicates it.Keaton does well interacting with the various versions of himself but the comedy is strained and not particularly funny.

In order for a story to be entertaining for me, it must be believable. Meaning it cannot have immense plot holes.I could not get past the first 30 minutes of this movie. The story begins about a man who apparently has no other choice then to work a job that he apparently is so good at that he has to work 7 days a week/20 hours a day with crap pay doing what appears to be a managerial position for a construction company. Really with his experience he can't find something better? Maybe not. I'll forgive that.But next, on a job, he runs into a doctor that has figured out how to make perfect clones of people. I have no issues with the idea of cloning technology. However, after this point is where I have huge issues with the story. First of all, this doctor offers to make clones of him so he can get more time. Was this technology not patented? If so, everyone would know about it and it would not be something new. If not, why would it not be patented? And even if it was not patented, how did they hide this technology from the government??? Governments would be immensely interested in this technology (let's clone the perfect warriors). Governments would be very interested in keeping the technology from getting out as well probably.Apparently this new super technology is cheap enough for some middle class smuck to afford? New technology is usually when it is the MOST expensive, not inexpensive. They would be marketing this to the most wealthy people, not some smuck working a dead end job.Sorry, I just can't watch crap like this. I guess there are a lot of people that like crap though.

Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton) is a construction supervisor. His underling Vic (Eugene Levy) screws up again leaving him with more work. He's getting pushed to work his days off. His wife Laura (Andie MacDowell) would like to go back to work but there isn't enough time for the kids already. The latest job is at the Gemini Institute which does cloning. Dr. Leeds (Harris Yulin) may have just the solution.Keaton really puts me off his character when he gets angry at his wife early in the movie. It is quite jarring. It's more than simply not liking the character. It's also not funny. Maybe Harold Ramis figured that one Keaton is funny and two is twice as funny. Therefore it's more the merrier. It's not.

A very funny movie. The parts Keaton plays are all different from each other and the movie gets funnier as it goes along unlike other comedies that are played out towards the end. The final clone is a work of art, and how the other "characters" react to it is also hilarious. I watch this movie any time it is on television. There isn't really another movie like it and Keaton's deviation away form harder movies like Pacific Heights shows he's a good actor. There has been a lot of negative reviews here for the film but I can't personally see the problem that a lot of people have with it, it's not meant to be serious and provides great entertainment. Worth a watch.