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I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

If you like impressive-looking sci-fi with lots of running around, you might like this. On the other hand, if you like thoughtful, intelligent science fiction, you can safely give this one a pass. With a talented cast, good budget, and a terrific premise by Phil Dick (who also inspired the brilliant Blade Runner and Total Recall), this should have been a fine movie. I don't know whether to blame the director, the writer (adapter), or both. (Each has done things I've liked in the past.) There are lots of troublesome inconsistencies, but I want to keep spoilers to a minimum. I can suspend disbelief and I think I have a fair tolerance for implausible heroics and holes in plots. But in science fiction or in fantasy, realism by default must be grounded in the characters, and I couldn't make myself believe the two leads—one a supposedly brainy weapons scientist, the other a top intelligence official—could possibly be so much stupider than the viewing audience. Neither seems capable of self-reflection or insight into the motives of anyone else. An interrogation scene near the beginning of the movie is a brain-numbing disaster. Vincent D'Onofrio's bullet-headed intelligence officer is portrayed as impervious to critical thought and mindlessly cruel. If he believes the circumstances are as he says slightly later in the film, it's senseless for him to act and talk as he does during the interrogation. (Also, didn't anyone ever teach him about the concept of "misinformation"?) Meanwhile, Gary Sinise's rocket scientist, instead of trying to persuade onlookers by asking obvious logical questions, adopts an initial strategy for escape makes no sense whatsoever (and has no obvious point). Mekhi Phifer, good as always, plays the only role that seems remotely plausible. The film director does achieve the small miracle of making a character played by Madeleine Stowe uninteresting, but at least she is given the chance to ask, halfway through the film, the question every character should have been asking from the beginning: "How can you be sure?" That is the central theme of Dick's message, although it's message few of the characters in this film could have understood.

Wow! I hadn't seen this film for many years; I remember that I did like it very much, but I didn't really remember many details from it.Let me say it again... WOW! Sure, being 2001 with some of the CG being a little dodgy and not knowing exactly what the budget was at the time, I still thought it looked like a billion dollars! Many other reviewers have also stated this. With Sci Fi, I am REALLY big on set design (anything from the silent era German Expressionism to slick, or not so slick Futurescapes) An EXCELLENT example is 1956's 'FORBIDDEN PLANET' - Truly amazing... especially for 1956; the head of the studio was out of the country at the time, so the director who happened to be an art designer went wild with the set design (and with the innovative and unique soundtrack too) And, WOW! did this one look good too! The city design and the many areas they had to go through, including both the more polished city areas and also the grungy desolated areas, ALL of it was pretty dang impressive to me.The story although fairly simple, is very well done. I think the largest share of the credit should go to the director for how nicely he put this film together. To me anyway, this is the kind of Science Fiction film where after you finish it, you REALLY are hoping that the ones who made it would come up with many more like it. Gary Sinise is Gary Sinise, like he always is. The acting overall was decent.And, as I state in my Summary, the Blu-ray is frigg'n FANTASTIC looking! Not bad for a film made nearly 15 years ago.Highly recommended for those who enjoy serious Science Fiction (this is not what I would call 'Heavy', but definitely 'Serious') and also for those who appreciate beautiful looking Science Ficiton films with a gripping and entertaining story.

If you like movies like total recall, you may like this movie.It is exciting to watch. However, when I think about it afterward, there are many things that are lame.For example, if a robot were to take over a human, why would it program itself to the point it doesn't know itself is a robot, and therefore can't carry out its mission in an efficient manner? Also, the movie showed a video clip of a previous robot being drilled. Why wasn't the robot programmed to explode when drilled? Why would the robot leave dead human bodies to be discovered in such obvious place? If they are as advanced as the human say they are, they ought to have a better way to get rid of a dead body.If the aliens want to assassin someone, once they get past the shield, they could just send a smart guided bomb, why bother with the robot thing?

A half-baked science fiction plodder in which Gary Sinise tries to convince the authorities he's not actually a body-snatching cyborg with a bomb in his heart. Originally intended as one-third of a short story anthology, the studio called an audible midway through production and stretched it to a feature length by itself. The lack of preparation is crippling, as bad effects, terrible scenery, atrocious dialog and a heavily padded plot are exposed and emphasized by the longer running time. Sinise's character, the intended heart and soul of the picture, is incendiary and unlikeable, a standoffish prick who makes an already-bad position worse for himself in almost every situation. The awful lines he spits (seriously, the worst-written dialog this side of The Room) aren't helped by a hyperactive editor, switching angles several times in a single sentence. Awful in almost every sense, at least it goes out with a bang.