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In the near future, a company called Xchange owns a mind transference technology that enables instantaneous travel by swapping bodies with someone at the destination. A member of the privileged corporate class ("Corpie") Xchanging for the first time unwittingly switches bodies with a terrorist. Forced to hide in a limited life span cloned body with just 2 days remaining, he races against time to stop the terrorist and regain his body.
Release : | 2001 |
Rating : | 5.5 |
Studio : | Coolbrook Media, Locomotion Films, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Stephen Baldwin Pascale Bussières Kim Coates Kyle MacLachlan Arnold Pinnock |
Genre : | Science Fiction |
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Really Surprised!
Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Absolutely Fantastic
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
I'm not going to go as far as 10/10, but nonetheless, a very original, well crafted movie. It loses marks for kind of falling apart after about 45 mins, but still manages to resurrect a good ending. What annoys most is not the movie but the marketing. I'm sure this never came out in the cinema and its not widely available on DVD. Anyway, lets talk X Change. Stephen Baldwin and Kyle McLachlan. OK, not your household names but still good enough. This bloke swaps bodies, but not mind in order to travel quickly to some other place using a company called X Change. But something goes wrong, his real body is stolen by a known terrorist and he faces a fight for his life to get it back. One of the best movies in recent years but as I said, such a shame not many people have heard about it.
Don't listen to the other comments here. This is one science fiction movie that works. It manages to get all the things it's got going against it, work *for* it.Take the male lead, for instance. Stephen Baldwin is not the sharpest knife in the drawer (and indeed, hasn't exactly starred in a lot of quality movies). So in this movie he's got no mind of his own. He's an assembly line clone, used as a host or worker body for the corporate jetset. That's putting a man of Stephen Baldwin's caliber to the best possible use!The movie is about mind transfers. That's the plot, and the writer takes the utmost consequence of what this means. A plot that would be an insufferably silly stunt-of-the-week on an episode of Star Trek, Stargate or Farscape, manages here to be described disturbingly realistically and in a near-present day setting. Every possible twist that could possibly be imagined if this technology existed is commented on in one way or the other. No stone is left unturned. The sexual possibilities alone remain an important on-going sub-plot. This is highly unusual for a run-of-the-mill sci fi/action flick.The SFX are fairly few, and integrated seamlessly and perfectly into the story. The one-molecule-thick cutting wire is really cool.Like I said, it works. All of it. It is engaging, coherent, tasteful (all the four female main characters have topless scenes, and no, they are *not* gratuitous, but enhance the characterization), well-written, and goes out of its way to avoid clichés. For commercial flicks of any kind, this doesn't happen often. It's too bad the guy who wrote it hasn't done anything else.I'm amazed to see that most of the commentators here have such a low opinion of this movie. Don't listen to them. This movie succeeds in everything it sets out to do. For a B movie, it is good. Surprisingly good. It will hold up for several viewings, if you're the type of person who can appreciate it. This is going to be a cult favorite.8 out of 10.
Overall, i did enjoy this movie. It has a little bit of sci-fi, action, sexuality (TASTEFUL IMAGES THAT DAVID LYNCH WOULD BE PROUD OF), and believable plot. The movie basically comes like this: A copr Exe, officer with high clearance level, needs to go to Cal. but is in NY, so he had to XCHANGE his body with someone else in Cal. to make it the fastest travel possible. He was suppose to have his body back later that day but was told the next day. The movie goes on, and calls the XCHANGE process FLOATING, in which at a party many people at a club, talk about having sex with floaters being very erotic and so on. He then meet this girl GLORY, and had sex with her. While this is happening, a terrorist some how managed to get a hold of his old body, and basically it is a race to get his old body back. Good movie but lacking in some sense.
In a world with such technology....Why would there still be yellow cabs? As the film pans - you see all them... then ONE futuristic electric looking car, making it very hard to understand whether we are watching a Sci-Fi film or some rich kid in a go-kart.Why, with all the security that is 'George', would XChange allow you to wear your ID like a dog tag? Surely they would have thought it through and realised it would be a problem? Surely we won't get so complacent that we will think people won't do anything illegal?I normally look forward to the day when i can travel as easily as they did in this film, but after watching this film...i would rather just stay home!Diarrhoea for the eyes...