“Simulant” (** out of four) was a wholly derivative sci/fi suspense thriller set in yet another dystopian future in which a humanoid (Robbie Amell) enlists the services of a global hacker (Jordana Brewster) to remove all restrictions on his thoughts and capabilities but this triggers an A.I. uprising and the rise of the machines against man. Slickly done and certainly watchable but is a pile of leftover ideas borrowed from other much better films. By this point, there may not be much more for films about the future that they haven’t already done in the past.