They Cloned Tyrone is a scifi comedy about Fontaine(John Boyega) a drug dealer in a suburban neighborhood called The Glen. After seemingly surviving a fatal shooting Fontaine enlists pimp Slick(Jamie Foxx) and sex worker Yo-Yo(Teyonah Parris) to help investigate. What they uncover is a conspiracy that extends way beyond The Glen.
Boyega is wonderful and totally assured in his multiple roles, he's always been a talent but as his career has matured he's turned into a full blown movie star. His ease on screen is a delight and he's able to ground and center the movie in a crucial way that allows the comedy and the genre stuff around him to really land. Foxx and Parris are having a lot more fun, playing broader more loquacious characters, and they're great. The three have great chemistry and navigate the tricky Blaxploitation come They Live tone perfectly.
Visually the film is rich and dark, full of neon and fog, juxtaposed with the bleakness of a depressed neighborhood. The soundtrack is infectious and weaves in consistently but mostly subtlety to further heightened the tone. Clearly inspired by Us and Sorry To Bother You as well as 80's John Carpenter the film is a riff on a couple things we've seen before but is not derivative. The humor, the commentary(not always clear or effective but certainly evocative), the well paced plotting, it all works together into something fresh and fun that makes you think.
A unqiue tone and an incredible main trio make for an energetic film kind of wasted straight-to-streaming.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
See It.
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