Impostor (2001)
An opening monologue presents a rundown of a politically-propelled war against an unseen alien enemy called the Centauri (Space word!). We then get credits accompanied by a steamy PG-13 sex scene that leaves nothing to the viewer’s imagination of arms, backs, shoulders, and belly buttons.
On his commute to work, Spencer Olham (Gary Sinise) is suddenly seized by evil gubberment reps and restrained to an interrogation chair. While Sinise tries his best to keep his ab muscles tight, he is accused of being a Centauri surrogate with intent to assassinate a prominent political figure. Olham then quickly escapes the elite government soldiers by crawling through a vent (a movie fugitive’s best friend). Thus, the witch hunt and crux of the story commences.
“Inconspicuous.”
The lead couple don’t have much chemistry, Tony Shalhoub is kind of annoying as a token best friend, and Vincent D’Onofrio is an ultra-hammy villain in a performance that I seriously doubt he gave a f*ck about. Sinise is also a little boring. The character just calls for him to play an average Joe who happens to constantly outwit top state personnel. Cinematographically, the movie seems hazy and the sets tend to be very grey-ish. It may sound drab, but it actually delivers a pretty unique visual character that goes with the narrative.
This isn’t too representative of the film’s overall aesthetic, but it’s cool that the movie does dabble in expressionism.
It’s cheesy, generic Hollywood sci-fi (basically, everything that would infuriate Philip K. Dick) but I dunno... it’s really entertaining escapism and much better than most of its ilk. In this type of flick, that’s all that really matters. I think it’s underrated despite faults.
An opening monologue presents a rundown of a politically-propelled war against an unseen alien enemy called the Centauri (Space word!). We then get credits accompanied by a steamy PG-13 sex scene that leaves nothing to the viewer’s imagination of arms, backs, shoulders, and belly buttons.
On his commute to work, Spencer Olham (Gary Sinise) is suddenly seized by evil gubberment reps and restrained to an interrogation chair. While Sinise tries his best to keep his ab muscles tight, he is accused of being a Centauri surrogate with intent to assassinate a prominent political figure. Olham then quickly escapes the elite government soldiers by crawling through a vent (a movie fugitive’s best friend). Thus, the witch hunt and crux of the story commences.
“Inconspicuous.”
The lead couple don’t have much chemistry, Tony Shalhoub is kind of annoying as a token best friend, and Vincent D’Onofrio is an ultra-hammy villain in a performance that I seriously doubt he gave a f*ck about. Sinise is also a little boring. The character just calls for him to play an average Joe who happens to constantly outwit top state personnel. Cinematographically, the movie seems hazy and the sets tend to be very grey-ish. It may sound drab, but it actually delivers a pretty unique visual character that goes with the narrative.
This isn’t too representative of the film’s overall aesthetic, but it’s cool that the movie does dabble in expressionism.
It’s cheesy, generic Hollywood sci-fi (basically, everything that would infuriate Philip K. Dick) but I dunno... it’s really entertaining escapism and much better than most of its ilk. In this type of flick, that’s all that really matters. I think it’s underrated despite faults.
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Last edited by re93animator; 01-21-17 at 12:00 AM.