Impostor starts as a tribute to Philip K. Dick and winds up selling its soul to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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01/03/02
Impostor (2001)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:13
Rotten:73
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: With its low production value and uninspired direction, Impostor comes off as a mixture of The Fugitive and Blade Runner, only not as good or as involving.
Theatrical Release:Jan 4, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $5,250,001
Synopsis: Gary Sinise enters the world of futuristic action heroes in Gary Fleder's sci-fi thriller IMPOSTOR, based on a story by Philip K. Dick. Sinise stars as Spencer Olham, a weapons expert in 2079 who... [More]
Starring: Gary Sinese, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mekhi Phifer
Director: Gary Fleder
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Reviews for Impostor
Looks cheaply made.
01/04/02
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01/05/02
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03/24/02
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06/16/02
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06/21/02
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12/06/05
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12/30/06
The editing is pointlessly hyperkinetic, never settling for a single camera angle when five, cut together in rapid succession, are available, and cramming nearly every scene with jump-cuts, flashbacks and jarring perspectives.
01/03/02
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06/14/02
Everything about Impostor ... is both familiar and profoundly unoriginal.
01/08/02
Top CriticLittle more than a flash-edited 96-minute chase flick.
01/04/02
This movie is something of an impostor itself, stretching and padding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting camera work.
01/04/02
Top CriticThere is so much action that there is hardly any room to explore the story's social and psychological themes, let alone some half-baked delusions.
01/04/02
Originally slated as a 40 minute installment in a sci-fi trilogy film, Impostor should have been left that way.
03/19/03
Hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparent skills of its makers and the talents of its actors, but it doesn't.
01/04/02
Despite fine performances and some fun moments, Impostor too frequently relies on contrived plot points to reach its revelatory climax.
01/05/02
It's of the quality of a lesser Harrison Ford movie - Six Days, Seven Nights, maybe, or that dreadful Sabrina remake.
01/03/02
Worth the ticket price -- mainly for the surprise ending and set design -- and most of its 96 minutes is absorbing.
10/02/02
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