Impostor (film)

Impostor (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Impostor


image_size =
caption = "Impostor" theatrical poster
director = Gary Fleder
writer = Philip K. Dick (short story)
Scott Rosenberg (adaptation)
Caroline Case (screenplay)
Ehren Kruger (screenplay)
and David Twohy (screenplay)
starring = Gary Sinise
Madeleine Stowe
Vincent D'Onofrio
producer = Michael Phillips
production company = Mirimax Films
distributor = Dimension Films
released = January 4 2002
runtime = 93 min
language = English
budget = "NA"
imdb_id = 0160399

"Impostor" is a 2002 science fiction film based upon a short story written by Philip K. Dick in 1953.

Plot

Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth. He learns from the group's leader, Major Hathaway (Vincent D'Onofrio) that the clones are perfect copies of the original human specimen (complete with memories), except they carry within their chest a small nuclear bomb, which cannot be detected without opening up the chest of the individual, in effect, killing them. The organization captured an alien transmission that stated that Oldham's clone was to assassinate the chancellor (Lindsay Crouse) when he came into contact with her, but Olham defends his humanity.

He manages to escape the interrogation room and has various adventures on the lam until Olham and his wife (Madeleine Stowe) are trapped by government troops in a forest near an alien crash site. When one half of the cockpit is pulled away, revealing the murdered corpse of Olham's real wife, the government troops turn their guns on the surprised clone to prevent her bomb from detonating. However, when the other half of the cockpit is pulled back, revealing Olham's corpse, the other Olham finally realizes he was indeed the clone the government thought he was. The words he utters on seeing the real Oldham's corpse causes the detonation sequence to engage. Hathaway turns around at the last moment to see Oldham's eyes turn black and the bomb in his chest explode, destroying everything within several miles and claiming the lives of thousands of people.

Production

The film adaptation was originally planned to be one segment of a three-part sci-fi anthology film before it was decided to expand it to feature length. Originally shot in 2000, the oft-delayed film was finally released in 2002 and received a lukewarm reception.

The film also used selected scenes and props from the movie "Starship Troopers". For example, the scene of medics clearing rubble after the bomb is taken directly from the news reel shown after the "bug meteor" attack in "Starship Troopers". The soldiers in "Impostor" also use the same armor as the troopers in Starship Troopers. A handful of other clips of rockets and meteor attacks were taken from the films "Gattaca" and "Armageddon".

The movie made $6,114,237 on an estimated $40 million budget.

Reception

Critical reaction to "Impostor" was mixed. James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film two and a half stars (out of four), saying "there are a few moderately diverting subplots and the storyline eventually gets somewhere," but added that "Impostor" wears out its welcome by the half-hour mark, and doesn't do anything to stir things up until the climax. You could spend the entire midsection of this movie in the bathroom and not miss much." [ [http://www.reelviews.net/movies/i/impostor.html Review by James Berardinelli] , ReelViews]

William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer gave the film a mildly positive review, praising lead actor Gary Sinise's ability to "hold the film together and provide a strong, sympathetic human focus." [ [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/53153_impostor04q.shtml Review by William Arnold] , Seattle Post-Intelligencer] Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide gave the film three stars out of four, saying it packed "a real emotional wallop," but suggested that it would have worked better as the 40-minute short film it was originally intended to be. [ [http://www.tvguide.com/movies/impostor/review/134655 Review by Maitland McDonagh] , TV Guide]

Keith Phipps of The Onion's A.V. Club gave the film a negative review, saying that "it essentially uses the setup of [the story] as a bookend to one long, dull chase scene." [ [http://www.avclub.com/content/node/5530/print Review by Keith Phipps] , The A.V. Club] Robert Koehler of Variety also criticized the film, calling it "a stubbornly unexciting ride into the near future." [ [http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=review&reviewid=VE1117916683&categoryid=31&cs=1 Review by Robert Koehler] , Variety]

References

External links

*Imdb title|0160399|Impostor
*rotten-tomatoes|id=impostor|title=Impostor
*metacritic film|id=impostor|title=Impostor
*mojo title|id=impostor|title=Impostor


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