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This movie never appeared in theatres... Big mistake. It was great, thoroughly entertaining from start to finish. Van Damme has really dug himself out of the hole drugs had him in a few years ago. He's 41, in great shape and doing the best acting of his career. Replicant was an original story... how many stories have you heard where they clone a serial killer? and it raised very interesting sociological questions: Is the killer's killer instinct biological or something caused by society? The film gives the impression that the latter is the case. Van Damme did a stupendous job acting the Replicant, he really seems like an animal in a world it doesn't understand but is learning to. His role as a bad guy was almost too good, that is to say he's so good one might want to see him again in a bad guy role. And Micheal Rooker does a bang-up job for his part as well. Great movie, well filmed by Lam, must see and remember... think while watching. :)

For any Stallone fan who has seen Rocky, FIST or even Copland and expects to see their favorite tough-nice-guy in another movie, think again. Only Stallone could go from the extreme of Rocky and end up playing the other end of the spectrum as the be-all and end-all of bad guys, as Jack Carter. He has his reasons for being this way but Carter is frankly dispicable, which is the goal with this movie. He's just plain ugly and Stallone does an incredible job of making you hate him. The only good thing, is that you hate the antagonists even more than you hate Carter. A great movie with directing like nothing you have seen, this movie hits home. Right up there with the best.