646. Clone (Womb)

Is it Womb or is it Clone? It is rather appropriate that a movie about identity should have a confusion over its own.

Benedik Fliegauf's film was at cinemas earlier this year and became available on DVD almost immediately.

This is despite it starring the rather eccentric flavour of the month, Matt Smith.

Mind you, his quirkiness was far from out of place in a movie which is littered with inconsistencies and a central premise which is utterly baffling.

The story begins with a young boy and girl who become best friends on a isolated island. Sadly, she moves to Japan with her mum.

Cut to 12 years later and the girl has become Eva Green and the little boy has become Matt Smith.

This is the first head-scratching moment because in real life Green is 32 and Smith is 30 (neither of them look ten years younger).

Anyway, they fall in love but, devastatingly, Smith's character is run down and killed by a van.

Thereafter the movie unravels horribly.

You see, it turns out that our Eva is pregnant and medical science can enable her to recreate a clone of Matt.

The explanation of this progress in science is virtually unexplained to the point of being taken for granted.

So, sure enough, her child becomes the little boy she knew all those years ago and eventually into adult Matt again.

But, do you know what? In all of those years Eva doesn't age. So when her son reaches adulthood, she looks just the same as when she was in love with his dad.

Green sleepwalks her way through this film. In fact, I think it would be more accurate just to say sleeps.

The amount of time her character spends in the land of nod would make the viewer believe she had narcolepsy.

Mind you, it is entirely possible that her constant heavy-eyedness was brought about by reading the script. It is both dull and confusing.

It has taken me a while to track down Clone which was originally called Womb.

It was another occasion in which chase yielded no dividend in terms of entertainment.

Laughs: none

Jumps: none

Vomit: none

Nudity: bare bums

Overall rating: 3/10