‘They Cloned Tyrone’ is a Wildly Creative Conspiracy Thriller (Review)
In one of the year's most imaginative movies, Juel Taylor takes us into a world where nothing is as it seems in 'They Cloned Tyrone.'
Taylor is no stranger to Hollywood, having co-written the screenplays to a few recent studio movies, In his directorial debut, shit gets weird.
Fontaine (John Boyega) is surviving as a drug dealer in a neighborhood known as the Glen. He heads out one night to confront a customer named Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx) who owes him money and ends up getting fatally shot by a rival dealer and dies in the parking lot.
Or does he?
The next day, Fontaine is alive and back at Slick Charles' door. A prostitute named Yo-Yo (Teyonah Parris) who works for Charles lays it all on the line, recounting how she saw Fontaine's body riddled with bullets. This begins ...