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A great cast for a great story with a nice twist, where the main character - a scientist specialized in weaponry in a future war against aliens, suddenly finds himself public enemy # 1 and doubting his own identity. Gary Sinise (Mission to Mars) is, as usual, exceptional. Vincent D'Onofrio, although a bit verbose, makes a decent "bad" government agent, and the atmosphere and visual effects credibly render the Earth at war in the year 2075. I recommend to first watch the short version of the movie, provided in the DVD as a special feature and which was the intended original version. This short film is well balanced and straight to the point: a great Philip K. Dick's story. The long version (a request from the production) has an added middle part dragging us through concrete corridors with not-quite-convincing action scenes: this breaks the dynamics and may explain the bad reviews it received.Read full review
Philip K. Dick was well known for writing stories with characters having a sort of slippery grip on some aspect of reality. In this case, the main character, played by Gary Sinise, is a scientist who has been developing weapons for a war with the Centaurians, who only want Earth, not any peace or compromise. They have developed some technology that lets them duplicate humans so that it is impossible to tell them from the original. In this case, Sinise is supposedly carrying a bomb in his chest, surrounded by his heart, yet he is convinced he is human and spends the entire movie trying to prove his innocence. He goes through various very implausible escapes, getting through situations that would tax even well trained spy operatives, yet he is supposedly just a scientist, and doesn't even do any physical training, and is not impressive as an action oriented person. He meets a sort of underground network of people who have been left unprotected from the devastation of the alien attacks. However, after all the machinations that Sinise goes through, and all the work viewers go through in identifying with him, it is disappointing to find out that we have all been fooled. It is a sort of betrayal of our faith in the end when Sinise does turn out to be not quite human and then all the build up, the expectation is deflated, and viewers have to think about how realistic is it necessary to be in order to be real. Perhaps this was what Dick intended, but the way it is presented makes viewers feel cheated by that vision overpowering the "truth" they've established via the vivid character portrayal.Read full review
I might have given it a 5, but it's been too long since I've seen it to remember for sure. Thriller. Drama. Action. A killer twist. Great movie! A Doctor (or scientist, I don't remeber which) - oh yeah set in the future - is accused of being a bomb. Aliens, or somebody, have been making replica people with bombs in there chest that explode when a certain trigger has occured (example if the clone/bomb was supposed to kill someone, they would clone someone who would have contact to that person and when they met, the bomb would go off). Clincher, not only is the 'bomb clone' comepletely undetectable, the 'bomb' don't know that they are a bomb! Well, not comepletely undetectable... The only way to test if they are a bomb would kill the person if they are not an actual bomb. Thus the Dr.'s reluctance to be tested. Watch it for the rest.Read full review
It is truly a shame that "Imposter" was so poorly received at the box office during its limited release. Instead of joining the ranks of other great sci-fi work at the time, fate decreed that this remarkable little thriller should fall through the cracks. Everything about "Imposter" is decidedly not B-list. The special effects and cinematography are surprisingly well rendered for such a low-budget film, the acting is top rate. The cast is even filled with one or two inspired choices (i.e. then-up-and-comer Mekhi Phifer as "zoner" Cale). Yes, it's true that "Imposter" loses something on a second viewing — what "twist" movie doesn't? — but on a first watch, the film is an excellent sci-fi diversion.
it came in good shape. It plays well. thanks.
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