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Published on Tuesday, May 23, 2000 - 3:54am |
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Quiet Robert takes a look at Gary Sinise in the science fiction Miramax film THE IMPOSTOR
Hey folks, Harry here. Seems like Miramax tested their Science Fiction film staring a cool cast of Gary Sinise, Madeline Stowe, Tony Shaloub and Vincent D'onofrio. Now, I saw a trailer for this at ShoWest with Moriarty that felt boring, tedious and bland. However, it had not one effects shot from ILM, and it should be noted that nearly the entire Miramax ShoWest reel seemed to be on some sort of downer... Nothing seemed alive, but perhaps this is a winner after all. We'll have to wait and see, it's directed by Gary Fleder... who is a decent director. (KISS THE GIRLS, FALCONE and THINGS TO DO IN DENVER) So for the moment, I'm a skeptical hopeful future fan of this flick...
Harry,
I went to a test screening last night of the new Gary Sinise film,
Impostor. This film just kicks some major butt. It's an all out sci-fi
masterpiece written by the same guy who did Blade Runner and Total Recall.
Many of the elements of these movies are apparent but it does not draw you
away from it at all. The whole movie is an all out
chase after Gary Sinise's character who is a scientist living in the future
thought to be an alien acting as him, ala impostor. His wife, played by
Madeline Stowe is a doctor in a hospital in the city. Tony Shaloub(the
cabbie from Wings or more recently the calm engineer in GalaxyQuest) joins
the cast and even though he doesn't have a big part it's still cool. After
a couple of minutes of character establishment in the beginning in comes
Vincent D'onofrio who is an esa detective(like fbi), pursues and the shit
hits the fan. It's just non-stop action with some awesome shots that looked
like they were right out of the future wars in T2, alas no endoskeletons.
There were a couple of unfinished shots though, which there always are, but
nothing that bad except for one at the end where they do a passover of all
the domes the people are supposedly living in. It was just unnecessary.
Anyway I can't wait till it comes in the theater to see it again. Even
though there were a couple of things I would have changed, like some or all
the stupid jokes should go, this movie rocked big time. I think will be a
huge hit.
Silentb0b (aka Quiet Robert)
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Reader Talkback
that ain't a calm engineer by Dhigger | May 23rd, 2000 05:05:52 AM | Philip K Dick's genius
decimated once more by
action-action-acti by SamLowry | May 23rd, 2000 06:44:45 AM | Dick is indeed the pillar of
great literature by Mirrorball Man | May 23rd, 2000 07:09:51 AM | PKD's best book by Mole | May 23rd, 2000 07:39:22 AM | sam mendes? by BLVD. | May 23rd, 2000 08:33:37 AM | What PKD novel is this based
on..... by Hero For Hire | May 23rd, 2000 09:21:24 AM | I'm guessing this review is a
plant. by Lance Rock | May 23rd, 2000 09:46:35 AM | This movie was based on by ckcha | May 23rd, 2000 09:48:44 AM | Did this person watch the same
trailer? by samuraisix | May 23rd, 2000 11:17:21 AM | BLVD by Mirrorball Man | May 23rd, 2000 11:33:19 AM | Sounds like... by mephisto666 | May 23rd, 2000 12:55:42 PM | i second this review by rightbrn | May 23rd, 2000 01:22:06 PM | A couple points and the
ultimate as-yet unmade Phillip
K Dick mo by Big Stomper | May 23rd, 2000 07:17:43 PM | More info on Impostor (from a
PKD site) by JasonK | May 24th, 2000 02:11:05 PM | Ubik by jonx77 | Jun 6th, 2000 08:34:19 PM | UBIK: The Movie by JuliusHG | Jul 4th, 2000 04:26:57 PM | Sure it's a visual medium,
but.... by bbungle | Aug 6th, 2000 09:57:52 PM | The Bastardization of Philip
K. Dick by Specimen | Dec 13th, 2000 01:55:53 AM | However... by Specimen | Dec 13th, 2000 01:59:44 AM | Re: Bastardization of PKD by Serra48 | Jul 20th, 2001 09:32:58 PM |
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