Waste of time

So much average

Awesome Movie

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

In the early 21st century, there was a lot of ballyhoo about the dangers of cloning. "À ton image" is a French film that tries to capitalize on that phenomenon, but does it without much conviction. The set-up of the film is too rushed, as Christopher Lambert (better than usual here, perhaps because he's speaking French) and Nastassja Kinski meet, marry and decide they want a child within about five screen minutes. On the other hand, Kinski's character takes an eternity to discover what we in the audience (as well as Lambert) already know from the start. This is a relentlessly predictable film. However, kudos to the casting department for choosing Audrey DeWilder, she gives a convincing performance and she does look like a clone of a young Nastassja Kinski! ** out of 4.

I do not like the work of Christopher Lambert, with the exception of his phase between 1984 and 1986 ("Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes", "Subway" and "Highlander"). However, I simply love the adorable Natassja Kinski, one of the most beautiful actresses of the cinema industry. "À ton Image" is not so bad for a Christopher Lambert's movie, but something is missing to be a good film. The idea of a sterile woman with a guilty complex for the loss of her unique son and submitted to a cloning experience, and her beloved daughter being an evil replica of her, is excellent and updated. Unfortunately, the direction is too cold, without feelings, and in the end this movie is only reasonable. Anyway I think it deserves to be watched at least once. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "O Clone" ("The Clone")

Knowing that it was produced by Besson's Europacorp, which regularly churns out commercial quickies, I had my misgivings about watching A Ton Image. Christopher Lambert(loved him in Albert Pyun's Mean Guns) and Nastassja Kinski are both fine actors who've had better days and have now moved to the B-list, which is a pity. If these two actors weren't starring in it, I'd never watch this film.Lambert and Kinski play a couple and they have a daughter. The direction is non-existent, main actors are wasted in no-dimensional roles. Lambert sleepwalks through entire film, his character could have been played by anyone who's capable of standing around looking puzzled. Nastassja Kinski gives a slightly better performance, she's constantly drinking and gradually getting hysterical which leads to the impressive emotional outburst towards the film's climax. The film is also visually flat, photographed by Gerard Sterin (Taxi, Wasabi and other Luc Besson - produced works), who's a nice cinematographer actually, but that's the look modern sleepy thrillers fashion requires. There's a really goofy scene when mother and daughter buy identical red dresses and put on red wigs and jump out at Lambert from behind the tree and start singing some really stupid song. There was no music to speak of but some sounds that were used were really creepy. The screenplay is weird, senseless and full of clichés. The film is based on some novel, which 'd like to read and find out whether it's equally bad, unoriginal and boring as this film.

the German title of the movie was actually very tempting (im spiegel des bösen, which means translated something like: in the mirror of evil), "but", the movie was like i feared it to be. the theme was good, but the acting...... Christophe Lambert; actually i don't know about this guy. Either he has no feelings, or he can't show them. Throughout the film he only exists. only at the final scene, Nastassja Kinski shows some "acting" and feelings. Lambert and Kinski don't fulfill the expectations and stay below their capability. i think, the theme is not really meant to be a drama, more a thriller/psycho-thriller, but the development of the movie/story is too slow fur such a genre. I wished the actors would have been on top of their performances and the movie had it's own "dynamic life", in order to fulfill the requirement of it's genre... As a final word; if you're a Lambert and/or Kinski fan, enjoy the movie...