You’d think that since one John Boyega is great, more John Boyegas would be excellent. But that might not quite be the case in They Cloned Tyrone, the directorial debut of writer-director Juel Taylor (Creed II). Clones are always trouble—and here they might be just the tip of the conspiracy.
Netflilx’s synopsis is short and sweet:
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio (John Boyega, Teyonah Parris, and Jamie Foxx) onto the trail of a nefarious government experience conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.
Whatever’s going on, it’s the in the Grape Drink and the fried chicken and the hair products and probably everything else, too: Something, or someone, is seriously messing with the Black residents of this town. Naturally, a drug dealer (Boyega), a pimp (Foxx), and a sex worker (Parris) are just the people to solve the mystery (with some help from the rest of the residents).
Taylor told Entertainment Weekly, “There’s a lot of stuff that you could read into with the film, but we really didn’t set out to make something that was didactic or preachy. … There are themes in the movie, there are games that we’re playing in the movie that you can latch onto. But I think different people are going to take different things from it. And that’s cool.”
It certainly looks cool. They Cloned Tyrone appears on Netflix on July 21st.
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