What must it be like for a neanderthal clone like William (Will Brittain), unwilling to so much as contemplate the intricacies of abstract thinking, to live life under the critical glare of the social media spotlight? Surely the discovery of the DNA that made possible the Xeroxing of a Cro-Magnon earned both father and son international household name status. We’ll never know thanks to filmmaker Tim Disney’s reluctance to acknowledge the obvious. (The time frame could just as easily have been turned back to 1990.) We are instead presented with a poles apart mother (Maria Dizzia) and father (Waleed Zuaiter) who enjoy bickering over the fate of their child: she’s a doctor who desires a “normal” upbringing for her son, and he’s a professor wanting to turn the lad into a human guinea pig. The problem with William is William. Look past his shelving unit brows — the prosthetics bring to mind a melange of insurance company caveman meets Chargers fan — to find a Paleolithic nullity in need of character motivation. (2019) — Scott Marks
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