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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.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sci-fi violence, some sensuality and language

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

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... 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 wakes up one morning to find himself accused of being an alien. He sets out on the run, being hunted down by Major Hathaway (Vincent D'Onofrio). He receives help from an underground leader (Mekhi Pipher), and upon returning to the city, he must convince his wife, Maya (Madeleine Stowe), and his best friend, Nelson (Tony Shalhoub), that he is indeed her husband and not some kind of robot monster with a bomb in his chest. With IMPOSTOR, director Gary Fleder (DON'T SAY A WORD) has crafted an edgy, fast-paced film that contains elements of Alfred Hitchcock's THE WRONG MAN, Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER (also based on a Dick story), Andrew Davis's THE FUGITIVE, and Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP. Sinise gets to flex his muscles as he continually escapes from Hathaway and a torture device that Goldfinger would be proud of, the Vivisector. The futuristic, fascistic world created by production designer Nelson Coates and shot beautifully by cinematographer Robert Elswit is the perfect setting for this ultimate battle of man against machine, the individual against the state, love and humanity against order and militarism. [More]

Starring: Gary Sinese, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mekhi Phifer

Starring: Gary Sinese, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mekhi Phifer, Tony Shalhoub, Tim Guinee

Director: Gary Fleder

Director: Gary Fleder
Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger, Mark Protosevich, Scott Rosenberg, David Twohy
Producer: Gary Sinise, Marty Katz, Amber Steven
Composer: Mark Isham
Studio: Dimension Films

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Impostor starts as a tribute to Philip K. Dick and winds up selling its soul to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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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.

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Everything about Impostor ... is both familiar and profoundly unoriginal.

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Little more than a flash-edited 96-minute chase flick.

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