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Making a overtly political film so on the nose that it will alienate 50% of your possible audience.... Then getting shocked when the film under performs.
This scifi film isn't scifi, it's a extended SNL skit with scifi window dressing. So you lost your scifi audience here
The humor in the film is cringe humor, that doesn't appeal to all humor demographics.
So the audience is people who hate trump but don't mind thinking about trump, people who don't dislike scifi trappings but also don't really like scifi themes/ideas, and people who want to watch a full hour of political cringe humor. That is a small audience.
I agree with you on the first part. It was just not that interesting, especially given that the concept of cloning seems really cool. But I feel like they did not discover enough in this regard but decided to make some political comments.