“Dual” (** out of four) was a joyless character melodrama about a terminally ill young woman (Karen Gillian) who opts for a cloning procedure to ease the pain in her family; when she makes a miraculous recovery, she attempts to have this clone decommissioned but they refuse which results in a court-mandated dual to the death to decide who really deserves to stay alive. Interesting story of cloning and death is halted by grim execution as film is cold-to-the-touch and thus doesn’t engage you emotionally. Even the final showdown is weirdly aloof. Writer/director Riley Stearns is trying for something akin to early David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick but it doesn’t quite translate with this material.