Review: Imposter

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My friends and I have been on a P.K. Dick bender recently, we've recently seen A Scanner Darkly and Imposter, lining up the recent remastered Blade Runner next (prepping for Ridley's version coming up this year.)
I saw Imposter a couple weeks ago, on my friends big home theater setup.
It could have been good. It looks like it started out life as a good movie, then some studio ogre demanded 75% more violence. You can tell, most of the chase scenes seemed thrown together and rushed, as if they had no idea where the next shot would be so every bit of scenery was made as generically as possible. Lots of bland shots of tunnels, abandoned buildings and forests. All of it didn't flow with the beginning or ending.
The acting was marginal at best. They had some good talent, but the actors didn't seem to know what to do with their material. Sometimes they are mad, sometimes confused, sometimes sad, we're usually not sure why.
The movie suffers greatly from it's editing. Someone seemed to think that they could instill the paranoid, Kaka-esque mood of PKD's work with lots of rapid jump cuts and shaky camera work. It all ended up looking like a cheap made-for-SciFi channel movie.
I think that Dick's work has great movie making potential, however, not as standard feature-length films. I read somewhere that this was supposed to be incorporated into a trilogy of alien-love themed movies. If it were cut in half and bundled with another movie, perhaps another of PKD's short stories, it would probably have been more successful.
60 out of 100.

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Kimber Kable

Topic - Review: Imposter - jbmcb 20:32:05 03/25/07 (0)

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