Just finishing a short theatrical run in the UK, The Impostor is a medium budget adaptation of an old Philip K. Dick story. It started life as one-third of  an anthology movie, but got extra budget when the other two-thirds melted away. Now I’m not a big fan of PKD, so I’ve no idea how close this was to the original story. However it’s adapted by Scott Rosenberg and directed by Gary Fleder, so I snapped it up. Their previous collaboration was Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, which is one of the great movies of recent years as far as I’m concerned, but this is less ambitious and suffers from one massive logical flaw.

The cast is excellent: Gary Sinise stars as a scientist who is accused of being an alien doppelganger and walking time bomb, Madeleine Stowe plays his wife and Vincent D’Onofrio plays the nasty police chief on Sinise’s tail. There’s one moment of extreme gore, two big plot twists and lots of running about and it all passes the time quite amiably, but I expected so much more.

By the way, this is the director’s cut, so it’s possible you’ve seen a better or worse version.

Mild Peril Rating:

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