Today we will review the climax of the action mystery sci-fi film from 2015 titled “Self/Less”. Spoilers ahead. Watch out and take care. Damien Hale, a successful businessman and billionaire is looking through large glass windows in his skyscraper apartment in nyc. Behind him, a nurse is getting ready to leave and is picking up her tools.

The billionaire has terminal cancer and barely six months left. Later during lunch with his best friend Martin, they discuss his illness and how he still hasn’t told his daughter Claire about it. Damien doesn’t have a good relationship with Claire because he was a workaholic while she was growing up and didn’t spend enough time with her.

Martin thinks that if Claire knows about the illness, she will forgive him and they will quickly make amends before Damien and Martin weighs. The billionaire asks his friend whether he heard of shedding and Martin says no. While in his limousine, Damien tries to call Claire, but she doesn’t. Then he pulls a business card of a company named Phoenix Biogenetic and remembers the conversation he had with the company owner, Dr.

Albright. The doctor’s primary mission in life is to offer humanity’s greatest minds a way to extend their life and fulfill their full potential. He has created a device that can transport consciousness from one body to another, a process known as shedding. The company provides new bodies, genetically engineered to perfection, to everyone willing to pay big money for them.

Damien remembers how he asked the doctor why their service was still. Albright said that he asked the wrong questions. The right question would be, do you feel immortal? After going through these memories and wondering whether to take Albright’s offer, Damien goes to see Claire, who is running a non-profit organization, wanting to make things right before dying.

He gives his daughter money, but doesn’t tell her about the illness. She refuses to take the money because she thinks he’s manipulating her, expecting his checkbook to solve every. Later, Damien is sitting in his office disappointed with how things turned out. With Claire desperate to have another chance at life.

He continues to research shedding and Phoenix Biogen. He discovers that the procedure was invented by Dr. Jensen and watches a video of him explaining the philosophy behind it. Jensen wanted to free the mind from the body and allow people to live even after the body dies. But as Damian is researching shedding, he starts coughing blood and.

The illness is starting to consume him, so when he wakes up with breathing tubes attached to his nose, he decides to call Albright and schedule the procedure. Albright explains how after the switch he can’t contact anybody and that his old life won’t exist. He also instructs him to come to New Orleans and publicly fake his death.

The next day, Damien’s on a plane and calls Martin asking if they can have lunch in New Orleans. Before meeting him, he goes to the New Orleans graveyard and bures a mysterious box near one grave. At lunch with Martin, Damien fakes a seizure and falls on the. Martin gets scared and calls 9 1 1, but instead of going to the hospital, the ambulance vehicle takes the billionaire to Phoenix Biogenic.

They quickly start the procedure, so they inject Damien with a needle and put him in the machine. Fully conscious. The strong lights and loud sounds make him even more uncomfortable, but his perception is quickly transferred into the new young body. When Damien turns his head, he sees his old body unconscious and dead shocked and disgusted.

He throws up Albright, tells him that it will take a few days to adapt while Damien starts halluc. Objects start morphing and he sees a picture of a field with horses. The doctor then sarcastically says that death has side effects. Damien now has to stay in the hospital and go through training and physical therapy to get used to his new body.

Since he can’t go back to his new life, Damien also has to learn a fake biography and use a new name. Edward Kidner. After a brief phase of confusion and desperation, he starts liking his new handsome self, but the hallucinations and headaches don’t go. Albright tells him that his mind still hasn’t got used to the new neural structure, so he gives him pills that will help the transition.

If Damien doesn’t take them, he might die or have severe migraines in hallucinations. Also, he must stay in New Orleans to meet with Albright regularly and get his weekly pill supply. After Damien completes the training he has dropped at a large, beautiful house in New Orleans that is now his Damien, aka a Edward, is quickly adapting and sooner than later starts playing basketball in the.

There he meets Anton, who lives right next to him and offers to take him out. That same night, they go to a club and every woman is staring at Damien, who is now a handsome young man, but he still isn’t used to answering questions about his life, job and age. So people think he’s a little weird. Despite this, Damien gets into a new routine much sooner than expected.

He starts hanging out with his friends, playing basketball, sleeping with beautiful women, hitting his pills, clubbing, and simply enjoying. After a while, this new routine doesn’t satisfy him anymore, especially since he can’t see his daughter distracted by his sadness. One day he forgets to take his pill and soon after starts hallucinating.

He sees flashbacks of the army along with images of a small town with a pumpkin tower in his hallucinations, he also sees a mother with her sick little daughter living in the countryside. Since the hallucination is too vivid and strong, Damien thinks it’s a. Later he describes what he saw to Dr.

Albright, who insists it’s just a mix of his old memories and his current emotions as a way to draw his attention to something else. The doctor gives him tickets to Hawaii and doubles his medication. He also tells him that he saw a sick little girl because he misses Clat and that the Latino woman from his hallucination is probably some one night stand from his youth.

But Damien didn’t tell Albright that the woman was Latina, so he immediately started suspecting the doctor. He knows something is wrong, so later tries to find the pumpkin tower. Turns out there is an exact tower in a small town in St. Louis looking for answers. He decides to trick Albright and go to St.

Louis instead of Hawaii. Before leaving, he goes to the graveyard and digs up the box. He buried in it. There is money documents and credit cards, so he takes someone heads toward the airport. One of Albright’s men follows him, but Damien quickly escapes his sight and catches a flight to the small town. A few hours later, he arrives right at the pumpkin tower.

He saw. Next to the tower, he notices a house and knocks at the door, but there’s nobody there sensing there’s more that meets the eye. Damien decides to enter the property and inside sees medical bills in parts of a respirator machine. Most importantly, he sees it a picture of Madeline and Anna, the mother and daughter from his hallucination.

He also sees his new self in one of the pictures. Turns out the body wasn’t genetically engineered, but was an actual person with a life. As he’s dealing with the uncomfortable truth. Madeline returns home and points a gun at him from. He tells her to calm down and slowly turns toward her as she falls on the floor crying in disbelief because she thought her husband was dead.

As he tries to explain Albright’s men come into the house, knock out Madeline and try to kidnap Damien, his friend Anton comes too, since he was part of the Phoenix Biogenetics and was spying on him the whole time. Anton explains that Madeline’s husband, mark agreed to give his body for money that would cover his daughter’s treatment.

Damien is shocked and confronts Anton explaining why Albright is a. The spy then gives a coldhearted metaphor telling him that it’s normal to be upset because he bought a new car and just found out the car had a few miles on it. Also, even though he is angry, there’s no point in coming back to the house since they will assassinate Madeline and burn her property.

Luckily, the billionaire has a strong moral compass, so decides to trick all brights man and save Madeline. He pretends to take his pills, so he goes to the bathroom and attacks one of the. With the help of Mark’s army instincts, he kills a few of Albright’s men and goes to wake up Madeline, but loses his pills during a fight.

Anton and the others try to burn the house down, but Madeline and Damien go onto the platform and start shooting them in the legs. Soon after. Damien kills everyone and runs toward the car with Mark’s wife. Damien lies to her and pretends to be her husband saying he agreed to do some dirty work to pay for Anna’s medicine.

Both of them head off to save. Anna, who is at. And I also thinks Damien is her dad, so she runs toward him and hugs him yelling that she knew he wasn’t dead. Later, the three of them book a stay at a motel where Damien uses a computer to find more about Phoenix Biogen. He discovers that Albright was a student of Jensen and also finds the address of Phyllis, Dr.

Jenssen’s wife because he doesn’t have any pills, he gets a migraine and starts hallucinating again. Madeline gets worried, but Damien knows what to do. He decides to visit Phyllis and learn more about the. The next morning, they take the car and go to the nursery home where Jenssen’s wife is staying. He poses as a student that’s doing research about Jenssen’s work and asks Phyllis to give him the doctor’s old papers and documents.

The old woman has Alzheimer’s, so she believes Damien and starts telling him all sorts of information. He finds out that Albright visits her every week, so he quickly figures out that Jensen is using Albright’s body. He asks Phyllis to call Albright and invite him to come. When the doctor arrives, Damien points a gun at him demanding more.

But Albright tells him a bitter truth. The more pills he takes, the more mark disappears, along with his fighting skills and army training. Without the pills, Damien’s mind will fall into oblivion and Mark will take over the body. Damien then kid naps, Albright, and demands. He takes him to the lab, but as they start walking through the hallway, Albright’s men attack and disarm him as they are taking Damien to a dark vehicle.

Madeline arrives and hits one of Albright’s men. Turns out it was Anton in a new body. It’s not his first chatting, and that’s why he can quickly adapt to new vessel. Damien fights off the other guard, but before the young couple runs away, Anton warns Madeline that Damien is hiding something and tells her to ask him about their daughter’s birthday.

When Damien and Madeline get into their car, the concerned mother insists they pull over. As soon as the coast is clear, she wants to get something straight, especially after the interaction with Anton. She asks Damien about Anna’s birthday and other details about their life together. When he can’t give any answers, he starts explaining the situation while Anna observes their fight from the car, wondering whether everything is.

Madeline gets very agitated and angry because Damien manipulated her and because she has to disappoint her daughter, she doesn’t want to explain to Anna how the man who looks exactly like her father is in fact a stranger. But all brights men want to kill her too. So even though she doesn’t like or trust Damien, she has to work with him to survive.

The billionaire then thinks of plan to ask help from Martin and place Anna and Madeline in a safe location when they arrive at his friend’s mansion. Damien convinces Martin of the truth by describing details only the two of them. Martin then agrees to help and organizes their escape. Later, Damien tries to figure out how to explain to little Anna that she’s never going to see her father again, but he starts bonding with her building new, beautiful father-daughter memories.

He teaches her how to swim and they have a great time together while Madeline observes them from the window. Happy. Since he is in her husband’s body, she feels attracted to Damien, so she asks to listen to his heart and kisses him. Damien feels uncomfortable, and so he starts telling her about his previous life in order to shift her attention from.

He opens up about his relationship with Claire and they have an honest heart to heart conversation, but suddenly Damien notices that all the mirrors in the house are covered. He knows that Martin’s son died two years ago and quickly starts suspecting that something is wrong. He runs and tries to find Anna, who’s in a large kid’s room playing with a little boy.

Damien immediately figures out that Martin brought his child to Phoenix Biogenetic as well, and gave him a new body. Turns out, Martin ratted them out to Albright and that the killers are waiting outside to. But Damien confronts his friend and tells him that the little kid’s body is not created in a lab.

It was a real person in someone else’s child. Martin is shocked and disgusted, so he decides to help them. This time. For real. He takes Madeline and Anna to a safe location on foot through a forest while Damien drives off in a car’s bait. Soon after he gets into a car chase with Albright’s men who are trying to capture and kill him after shooting and crashing their cars into each other.

All of them get into a massive car. Damien gets out of the car and makes sure everybody is dead before going to the diner where he’s supposed to meet Madeline and Martin. However, Martin’s the only one who arrives. He explains to Damien how Madeline and Anna got ahead of him in the forest. They asked for help from a mysterious car on the road.

Little did they know it was Albright’s men, so they got kidnapped and Martin couldn’t do anything because they were far away. Damien also learns. Martin planted the business card from Phoenix Biogenetic as a way to. Most importantly, he discovers that Martin cracked the formula for all bright’s pills and that he can engineer them from scratch.

But Damien starts wondering whether he should continue to take pills, especially since that way He’s killing Mark. He puts off the decision until later. Since now he’s priority is to save Madeline and Anna. The plan is to say off the pill for 12 hours, hoping to use Mark’s memories to find more information about the lab location.

During his withdrawal, he sees a Marty Graf float storage near Albright’s lab. So he heads to New Orleans to find the. The next day he goes to New Orleans and finds the lab exactly next to a Mardi Gras storage. He breaks in and attacks a few guards without anybody noticing, but in the room where the machine transfers consciousness, he sees two new bodies.

Suddenly, Albright appears behind a glass wall. He sarcastically tells Damien that Madeline was the perfect body match for a new client, and that Anna’s organs won’t be wasted. Damien gets angry and shoots at the glass that separates them when suddenly two of all brights men appear in dis. His body will now be used as a new vessel for Anton’s consciousness.

Before stepping into the machine, Indian finds a bullet and swallows it without anybody noticing. Next thing we know, Anton wakes up in Mark’s body. Albright starts asking questions to determine whether it’s really Anton. After he’s convinced, he sends him on a mission to assassinate Madeline and Anna.

But when Anton enters the room there staying at, he kills the guards instead and saves the mother and child. Turns out it was Damien and Mark’s body all. The three of them start running away and fight off Albright’s men. Soon they end up in a room which separates them from Albright with a glass wall.

Damien tells the doctor that he carefully listened to instructions before the first procedure. He remembered that the transformation won’t work if there is metal on the bodies. By swallowing a bullet, he managed to remain in Mark’s body. Albright doesn’t think that Damien will kill him because he’s the only one who has the pill formula, but he doesn’t know that Martin cracked the code.

So Damien Burns the doctor with a. After they escape the lab, Anna and Madeline go to a safe destination. Martin found for them, but Damien doesn’t come along. Instead, he goes to see Claire. He poses as her father’s friend and starts opening up. He tells Claire that Damien regretted not spending time with her as a child and that he was proud of her.

Then he gives her a letter and leaves, but not without glancing at her. One more time from outside the window. The next thing we see is Damien waking up in a hotel. He is confused and finds a video of himself on a computer. Turns out Damien isn’t in Mark’s body anymore. The billionaire decided to get off the pill and allow Mark to take over, giving him back the life that was taken from him.

Mark is in shock, but he feels extremely grateful. He then goes to join Madeline and Anna, who are now living on a beautiful tropical island. Make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you can watch more videos like this. Thanks for watching.