“They Cloned Tyrone” – Not a copy but an original [MOVIE REVIEW]
“They Cloned Tyrone” is never entirely what you think it will be. Crossing genre lines many times, Juel Taylor, director and co-writer (with Tony Rettenmaier) surprises at almost every turn. Rather indeterminate in time frame, it might be the recent past or the near future. Cinematographer Ken Seng uses a dark, muddy palette with a grainy pattern that makes it look like a B-movie. The war-zone-like inner city setting in a gone to seed neighborhood is defined by the prostitutes on the street, the corner market selling cigarettes and 40s (40 oz bottles of malt liquor) and the drug dealers on every corner. Everything from the Impala driven by Fontaine, the drug dealer, to the fur collar on pimp Slick Charles’ leatherette coat to the thigh high boots Yo-Yo the “ho” wears screams 1970s Blaxploitation. Fontaine, Slick Charlie and Yo Yo all have counterparts in those 70s movies whether it’s “Super Fly” with its drug dealer hero, “The Mack” centered on a pimp, or “Foxy Brown,” the woman bent on vengeance for her community. John Boyega as Fontaine and Teyonah Parris as Yo-Yo. Photo courtesy of Parrish Lewis/Netflix. The unbelievable plot initially focuses on Fontaine. Opening on a typical…
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