#Reviews on selfloss movie
Or maybe it is and my judgment is clouded, but I didn't think this movie was bad. And I'm not even saying that this is a bad movie because of that fact, because it's not actually a half-bad movie if you really look at it objectively.
But it falls short of Advantageous, because it substitutes legitimate character development for action sequences.
I thought it was better than Criminal, because I think it made use of its ideas and themes in a more effective fashion. So, where does Self/Less fall when compared to those films? Honestly, kinda in the middle. And I'm sure those two aren't the only films with similar concepts, that's just the first two that come to mind. Obviously, of the two, Advantageous is the better movie. It looks at a mother who, having been fired from her job due to her age, transplants her consciousness onto a new body that would allow her to keep her job and give her enough money to get her daughter into this prestigious school. And there's also this small independent film called Advantageous that takes a more character-driven approach to this concept.
Criminal, also with Ryan Reynolds, has a concept where the consciousness of this cop (Reynolds) are transplanted onto this criminal, played by Kevin Costner to help them solve a series of terrorist attacks and find out who's behind. I can think of two movies off the top of my head that have similar concepts. But just because this has a good concept doesn't mean that it is a unique one. This movie has a good concept, there's no denying that.
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