“It’s in the water,” someone says early on in this directorial debut feature from Juel Taylor (co-writer of Creed 2). Mashing up Groundhog Day with Get Out, They Live, Sorry to Bother You, Westworld, A Clockwork Orange, blaxploitation films, “X-Files shit”, and more, They Cloned Tyrone is a race-conscious conspiracy caper at heart, spruced up with some zippy patter and a razor-sharp cast. Although the plotting could have used some sharpening, too, credit Taylor with this: he almost pulls off his ambitious, multi-referential clone job.
