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75It's a pleasure to watch a thinking-man's actor like Sinise adapt so easily to this challenge; he even keeps his dignity when forced to participate in the inevitable martial arts-inflected showdown.
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67Has a certain ghoulish fascination, and generates a fair amount of B-movie excitement.
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63Plays around with some interesting notions, such as the nature of reality, the nature of humanity, and the nature of spiffy apartments with sleek bathroom fixtures.
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63As a video rental, this film will probably play a lot better than it does at the local multiplex.
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63It's considerably flawed. It has a middle that's padded, a look that could use a few more light bulbs, a protagonist who never earns our sympathy, and an audio mix that leans much too heavily on the bass, often making it impossible to understand what's being said.
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60This psychological sci-fi thriller was originally made as a 40-minute segment of an unrealized portmanteau picture, then expanded into a freestanding feature. That's probably why it's padded with shots of Olham running down corridors.
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50It's a Hitchockian "wrong man" story, but there's a twist.
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50Unfortunately, Impostor doesn't do much with its template, despite a remarkably strong cast.
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50Likely to be best appreciated by dedicated sci-fi fans, admirers of Dick in particular. It hasn't the stupendous razzle-dazzle of a mega-budget picture like "A.I. Artificial Intelligence."
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42It's a yawn for the most part, depending on dull characters and uninvolving twists.
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40Written by a team of three, the script is more plagued by groupthink than is the film's future Earth.
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40Director Gary Fleder ("Don't Say a Word") pushes the same old cliches in "Blade Runner" packaging.
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40Imposter is a penny-pinched "Blade Runner," a stubbornly unexciting ride into the near future.
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38As in most cheap futuristic movies, everything is dark or illuminated by a drab bluish glow. The buildings look grubbily similar to each other, so every location has to be identified onscreen. Of course, that saves the audience the trouble of paying attention.
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30Familiar and profoundly unoriginal.
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30The movie automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental shelf.
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30Isn't really a movie, it's only impersonating one.
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30Turns out some folks just don't know Philip K. Dick about making movies.
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30Suspense is fairly effective until it's stretched to the point of monotony.
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25The kind of schlocky, disposable time-killer that once might have starred Jean-Claude Van Damme, The Impostor is a relentlessly dull chase flick with an inexplicably high-toned cast.
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25The last 15 minutes finally get it together for what passes as a movie experience with a considerable "gotcha!" quotient.
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25The only good thing about Impostor is the appropriateness of its title for a film posing as the first 2002 release.
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25The entire movie has the meaninglessly burnished, sunglasses-at-midnight glow of an early-'90s car commercial -- a visual scheme guaranteed to leave the audience squinting between yawns.
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20The kind of movie where you shout advice at the characters on screen, because we have so much more information than they do.
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20It essentially uses the setup of an early Dick short story as a bookend to one long, dull chase scene.
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20The ending is meant to be clouded with ambiguity, but really it is unequivocally happy because it means the movie is over.
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