Product: Replicant [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 4.0
Very good. One of van damn's best!
Basically, van damn is a serial killer, who's already killed like a dozen people. He targets single moms, slices them and then burns the place down. The cops have been trying for like 3 years to find him with no luck. The main cop in the case retires from the force, and some government agency hires him to continue looking for the killer. Little does he know, they recovered a single hair from one of the crime scenes, and with that hair they basically made a clone of the killer. Their hope, is that the clone will be able to help them figure out who the killer is. And the clone is also played by, obviously, van damn. So, if you can by the whole cloning sci-fi stuff, and believe that, then the rest of the movie was actually very good. They don't dwell on or explain the cloning thing at all anyways. That whole thing is only a small part of the movie. So the ex-cop drags the clone all over town, trying to see if he can help him at all. The clone actually starts remembering things the killer did, and that helps the cops find the killer. There was quite a bit of fighting in it. It was nice to see he's still in great shape, unlike the other left over from the 80's, our old fat friend seagal. As a martial arts movie, not so good. As an action-suspense-murder-cop-thriller-mystery, pretty good.