Self/less
The life of a wealthy well known businessman, who suffers from a fatal cancer, that threatens his life, but he has only one chance to live, by transferring his consciousness to another body of a healthy and young powerful boy, the thing that brings terrible for him and makes him struggle against coping with that new body.
15 December 1981, Barking, Essex, England, UK
28 August 1988, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
12 July 1984, Miami, Florida, USA
4 June 1972, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
24 April 1974, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
5 November 1976, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, USA
26 December 1970
April 05, 2016
Favouring style-over-substance, there are no real or meaningful contributions to the sci-fi cause in Self/less which ends up being a forgettable affair.
July 13, 2015
Tarsem Singh has a reputation for making movies that are visually stunning but woefully inert and convoluted in their storytelling (see The Cell and The Fall). Singh's most recent film, Self/less, lives up to at least half of that reputation.
January 09, 2017
Self/Less is a film which is watchable to a degree, if you ignore the overall plot and have it on in the background.
March 01, 2016
There is no spark, identity or glimmer of freshness in this film. Let's put it this way, it has no sense of "self."
August 31, 2016
The story never manages to convince us that Damian may be at times changing because of some residual sense of Mark, and it never defines the moment when Damian decides to become a decent human being.
July 13, 2015
A sci-fi thriller so derivative of John Frankenheimer's masterfully paranoid Seconds it would be more accurate to call it Thirds, Tarsem Singh's Self/less is a generic waste of a clever idea.
July 12, 2015
What starts out as an interesting exploration of identity soon gives way to the uninspired, generic action flick we had feared it always was.
April 17, 2016
Part debacle, part footnote, sure to remind viewers of the better films they could be watching if they weren't such lousy decision makers.
July 09, 2015
Self/less is so restrained that I wonder if somebody stole Tarsem Singh's body, too.
February 22, 2016
A slick, but dated and hollow jaunt through the ripple effects of over-reaching technology and the questions of morality that accompany such power.
July 12, 2015
Deep under the skin of this shrug of a movie is a solid metaphor rooted in an appealing fantasy.
