July 13, 201500:16:01

Self/less (2015) Ryan Reynolds - Movie Review

New York billionaire Damian Hale has less than six months to live due to terminal cancer. Damian is given a business card with the number of a company that purports to have a solution to his death sentence, and, figuring he has nothing left to lose at this point, he gives their top-secret facilities in New Orleans a look. The process is called 'shedding', which involves planting his consciousness into a new, fresh body, which the company's genius scientist in charge, Albright, assures him has been cultivated in a lab. Damian goes through the procedure, which gives him not only a new lease on life but a whole new identity in New Orleans, using his newfound youth to bed many beautiful women, engage in sports he hasn't partaken of in years, and eat mass quantities of peanut butter (Damien's old body was allergic to the nut). But there is a side effect to the procedure involving hallucinating about people he doesn't know and places he's never been. Albright assures Damien that this is a normal adjustment and that if he keeps swallowing the prescribed pills offered to him, he'll be completely free of such visions within a year. But soon he begins to suspect that Albright isn't telling the full story, and that the body he is inhabiting already has some miles on it, and he's going to find out who is sharing mind-space with him and how he ended up as a cadaver for rent. Needless to say, some secrets are going to have to stay secret, and Damien finds that the more he digs in to the past, the more he finds himself digging his own grave, this time for good.

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