Cooperating with the replicant, Riley, an intelligent and courageous retired police officer, who takes the case of a psyche serial killer, who murders women and kids in a brutal way and them burns their dead bodies, the thing that leads a national agency to make a clone for him.
Replicant doesn't even come close to some of Van Damme's better flicks (Timecop and Sudden Death), but it's certainly an improvement over what he's been up to lately.
The action sequences are well staged and credit where credit is due: The 40-year-old martial artist still has the physical goods, executing 180 splits and gymnastic stunts with the grace and apparent ease of someone much younger.