Impostor

Year of release : 2001

 

Run time : 1h36min

 

Genre : Sci Fi / Psychological Thriller

 

Cast : Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mekhi Phifer

 

 

Based on the 1953 short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick, Impostor tells the story of Spencer Olham, a weapons expert, who, one morning is being taken by the police and accused of being an alien cyborg.

 

He manages to escape as they prepare to take his heart out -- the alien cyborgs have the bomb which would destroy anything for miles, hidden in the heart -- and in his attempt to get out of the facility they keep him in, shoots his best friend, not knowing he was behind the police officers who were shooting at him.

He was given psychotropic drugs which make him think he sees and hears things which aren't there.

 

He is helped by a man who lives at the outskirts of the city, in a community which is not part of the new computerized age, in his quest to go back into the city, get into the hospital his wife works in, to get a body scan to prove himself and the police he is himself, not a cyborg.

I personally enjoy the movie every time I watch it, being one of my favorites. I loved the fact though the whole movie, Olham is led by the love he has for his wife. While he’s on the run, she’s always on his mind (we can see his memories and thoughts).

 

The ending has a mind blowing twist, and the acting, especially from D'Onofrio who plays major Hathaway is amazing. Major Hathaway seems to be the bad guy of the movie, because he picks on the lead, and is dead set on catching him (and k1lling him, thinking him collateral damage if he’s not an android), SPOILER and the twist at the end confirms his suspicions (he was right all along!) END OF SPOILERS.

I also liked Olham’s wife, who loves him, and they seem to have such a beautiful relationship (they remind me of the couple from the movie The One (2001,starring Jet Li ), another one of my favorite movies and on screen couples).

 

The acting was top notch, especially from Vincent D'Onofrio, one of my favorites, and Gary Sinise who plays Olham. 

 

The visuals were sometimes good, other times you could tell they were fake.

The movie received negative reviews, with a rating of 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 33 score out of 100, on Metacritic. Cinema Score audiences graded the movie a C.

The movie grossed only 8 million dollars at the box office, against a budget of 40 million.

 

Rating : It's so money!