Liked it, despite the obvious plot problems

Rating: 6/10 (9 April 2011)

This isn't serious sci-fi and it's not a shoot-up either. So it's rather hard to rate. The plot holes are so obvious that it sometimes distracts attention from the main plot and this contains spoilers otherwise what's the fun of picking them apart? At first, I thought this was on a Jupiter moon, because there were problems with "live communication." But it turns out to be our own moon where a decent dish antenna can pick up strong signals. In addition, the whole automated cloning scheme doesn't make sense when "rescue ships" can be sent in a matter of hours to clean the politically incorrect mess. Finally, and this is the most annoying plot gap of all: How was the Bell character to be considered an "illegal alien?" Like from Mars or Pluto or something? This was obviously a jab at USA immigration policy and talk radio but fell flat and nonsensical.
Apart from those shortcomings, it was neat how the viewer is surprised to learn that rather than the protagonist being recovered from the accident we thought, it turns out that it was a fresh clone. Then we get to see how they figure out the ethics of killing their own clone or sacrificing one of themselves to pull off the scam at the end.
Considering the cheap leftist political ploy mentioned above and the plot holes, it's not surprising that I missed this film first time out. I accidentally hit it when it was on cableTV.
I liked certain elements of the film. How the main computer had a smiley face emoticon similar to facebook.