They Cloned Tyrone
2023
**½
Director: Juel Taylor
Cast: John Boyega, Teyonah Parris, Jamie Foxx, Kiefer Sutherland, David Alan Grier, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Tamberla Perry, Eric Robinson Jr.
A drug dealer, who was shot dead the night before, teams up with a pimp and a prostitute to figure out the strange events occurring in the Glen, a mostly black urban neighbourhood. Juel Taylor's directorial debut delivers a quirky and messy mix of blaxploitation and science fiction, but it is sadly ruined by its three main characters, boring and unlikeable stereotypes who talk a lot but say nothing funny. The scifi bits bring back memories of Us and the third season of Stranger Things. The explanation behind the events is clever, but not clever enough to carry a 2-hour movie.
