Review: Two Will Smiths don't double the pleasure in the ill-conceived 'Gemini Man'

Few movie stars have been so willing to suffer for our ostensible entertainment as Will Smith. I don't mean that entirely as a compliment, but I also say it with some real if qualified admiration. Smith can suffer beautifully, even movingly, onscreen, as he did playing a destitute dad trying to care for his young son in 2006's "The Pursuit of Happyness." A few years later he seemed to succumb to a bizarre martyr/messiah complex, shouldering the weight of the world in movies that were sometimes fine ("I Am Legend"), sometimes terrible ("Seven Pounds"), but rarely uninteresting.

Brooding seriousness can become Smith, though lately lightness becomes him more. It was an unexpected tonic to see him