Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

InzyWimzy After several viewings of Clonus, this movie is not as bad as I had first thought. Sure, Robert Fiveson didn't have a huge budget, but the story definitely holds an interesting premise especially with scientific advancements today. You know there are some labcoats who've toyed with this notion before. Clonus is not recommended for those heavily reliant on Prozac. An extra plus for the dark undertone throughout this film.Clonus has its B grade charm: you get to see L.A., um I mean, *AMERICA* in the late 70s. There's the whole mind control effect and punishment for refusing to conform. Hey, that's the Enterprise red alert sound when Richard's running through the hallways! He really should have just called Jack Tripper to help him out or hide out at the Regal Beagle. Dick Sargent is at his ominous best and is only upstaged by the short, yet effective cameo by the late Peter Graves.Only you can prevent crotch fires.

ocristiii I remember catching this on late night TV back in the 80's and it stuck with me for years until I finally saw a DVD copy. It gets badmouthed, but this is what 'good' low budget sci-fi movie looks like. The story was intriguing (for 1979) and it was able to be fairly well made for next to nothing. Has it aged well? No, but the concept was good enough to be ripped off for a big budget remake 20+ years later. They probably though nobody would remember this old b-movie, but seems they were wrong. I wonder how much it ended up costing them. So it's a little goofy looking now, it still deserves some praise. I'd still rather watch this than 'Clone Wars' any day.

ngobleus I'll say this first...the film would've been a 70s sci-fi classic if it had been executed a lot better.That said, let's examine the plot...it starts with Peter Graves (or is that Clarence Oveur?) running for President, then cuts to a goofy college campus-like environ full of authoritarians in goofy trucker caps and headsets and retarded athletes who all act like they're perpetually age 8. It then shows one guy apparently going to America, having a party, then taken to a medical lab where he is drugged, wrapped in a plastic bag and then prepared as if the doctors were bagging vegetables for steamers packs...okay, actually he's being put on ice so the doctors can extract the organs they need.It then cuts to another dopey man thinking the place he's living in is a bit strange after a beer can (of all plot devices possible) he finds in a river makes him look suspicious (damn those beer cans!). He and some equally stupid love interest of his feel they need to get to the bottom of it all, so he makes her stay behind as he escapes through what is basically a large college administration building with some evidence he discovers on the way about cloning...and how he's a part of it.He escapes his controllers after being shot some and an old reporter guy helps him find his 'father'--the man he was cloned from. It just so happens he's a clone of the brother of Peter Graves. After debate about what to do with him and his evidence, he goes back to the facility to find his girlfriend (who has been lobotomized in the meantime to be even more stupid, harmless, and ready to host a talk show according to the SOL crew). He is captured and put into cold storage just like his Nazi-build retard friend from the beginning of the film.Meanwhile, a confrontation at Graves' brothers house results in several deaths, including Graves'. The reporter guy and his wife are killed in the middle of an exciting conversation by a bomb. It seems the conspirators have won to some extent...Then, Peter Graves turns out to be able to survive being run through with a metal poker by the miracle of cloned parts, and giving another 'vote for me' speech just as reporters confront him about the cloning thing.Definitely MST3K fodder, but on the low end of the spectrum as far as overall badness goes.

MARIO GAUCI I wasn't aware of this low-budget sci-fi effort before its SE DVD release on R1 from Mondo Macabro; while I've amassed – and been impressed with – a considerable number of their releases, I somehow never got around to acquiring this…even after all the publicity the film received when the people behind it sued the makers of THE ISLAND (2005) for plagiarism! The film was fairly prescient for its time with its concern about the cloning of human beings – here linked with a struggle for survival as a select few aim for immortality (shades of the far superior SECONDS [1966]), and with a typically dystopian view of the futuristic (and secluded) cloning centre. While the handling is unassuming for the most part, the latter stages notch up reasonable suspense as the hero breaks out of the facility and goes out to the 'Promised Land' (America, of course) to seek answers to his questions which the 'phone booth' specially devised for this purpose seems reluctant to reply… I don't recall THE ISLAND (which was offered as an in-flight program while traveling from London to Los Angeles in November 2005!) enough to note just how much of PARTS was actually ripped off; suffice to say, though, that here we also get a blonde female clone who becomes the protagonist's accomplice/lover. Unfortunately, both leads are pretty bland – which rather lessens audience involvement in their plight (though it does contrive a downbeat ending which was pretty much a requisite of the cynical 1970s); however, a couple of veteran 'name' actors (Peter Graves and Keenan Wynn) turn up in the cast and they're given important roles to play – Graves as a politician involved in the conspiracy and Wynn as an elderly man who helps the hero lift the lid off it.All in all, it's not too bad – the recurring images of bodies in plastic bags are undeniably effective – but hardly constituting a minor classic of the genre…which is perhaps why Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay thought they were safe in bringing its intriguing plot up-to-date without the need to acknowledge the earlier film!