Impostor (2001)

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Movie
German title Impostor
Original title Impostor
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Gary Fleder
script Caroline Case
honors Kruger
David Twohy
production Gary Sinise
Martin F. Katz
music Mark Isham
camera Robert Elswit
cut Poor Minasian
Bob Ducsay
occupation

Impostor (dt. Conman ) is an American science fiction film from the year 2001 . The film adaptation is loosely based on the short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick . The film is also known under the title Impostor - The Replicant .

The film was originally a 30-minute episode of the never-finished film The Light Years Trilogy . The production company Dimensions Films was impressed by the material that was already available, so that after numerous re-shoots and additional special effects, a complete feature film was created. The 102 minute long film was then re-cut in order to receive youth approval. The original version was released on DVD as a so-called Director's Cut .

action

In 2079, Earth and its colonies are at war with an alien species, the Centauri. The war has been raging for almost 30 years and has brought about profound changes. Nation states were dissolved, humanity was united against the almost overwhelming enemy, but at the price of giving up democracy and a large part of civil rights. Numerous cities were bombed by the Centauri.

Spencer John Olham, whose father died in the war, is a government scientist. Olham and his colleagues are working on a secret project, an ultimate bomb to wipe out the Centauri. Olham and his wife Maya, who works as a doctor in a veterans hospital, are invited to attend a reception in honor of the Chancellor. Before they can accept the invitation, however, Olham is arrested at his workplace. The earthly secret service was able to intercept a Centaurian courier and decipher parts of the message that it was supposed to deliver. From the fragments of the message, it emerges that Spencer Olham was to be killed and replaced by a Centaurian replicant who carries a bomb in his body that is assembled just before detonation and the existence of which cannot be proven without killing the carrier .

The secret service officer Hathaway is convinced that the exchange has already taken place and that the assassin's target is the Chancellor. Olham, who does not know what is going on at first, is drugged and is supposed to be killed to detect the bomb. Eventually, however, he escapes and tries to get in touch with his wife. Maya Olham, meanwhile, is under pressure from Hathaway.

With the help of an outlaw, Olham, who has escaped outside the city's protective screen, can return to the hospital where his wife works. He is driven to prove that he is not a replicant. However, he can only provide the proof by means of a body scan, which must be carried out in the hospital. Before the scan can be completed, Hathaway tracks down Olham again and flees. Olham contacts his wife and asks her to meet him where they met, because he has now realized that he can only prove his humanity if he finds the spaceship with the replicant, the protective screen of the Breached earth.

Maya Olham meets with her husband, but was shadowed by Hathaway, and so he appears with dozens of soldiers. The Olhams flee and find the conscious spaceship nearby, and while the scientist tries to open the spaceship, Hathaway approaches along with the soldiers. It turns out that the now completely decrypted message from the Centauri courier referred not (only) to Olham, but to his wife. Olham itself was only the means to an end. In fact, Olham, who managed to open the spaceship, sees the body of his wife. Maya Olham, now exposed, tries to escape and is shot by Hathaway. While Olham is holding his wife's dead replicant, the soldiers accompanying Hathaway clear some rubble aside - and discover another corpse. Olham looks into the spaceship and sees - himself. While realizing and astonished that he too is a replicant, the bomb detonates inside him.

criticism

"Not particularly original science fiction film based on the short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick ('Blade Runner'), but which is increasingly finding independence."

- Lexicon of international film

Others

  • The film never came into cinemas in Germany; it was released directly on DVD on April 22, 2005.
  • The film was budgeted for $ 40 million, but the film only grossed around $ 6.3 million in the US.
  • At the beginning of the film, isolated scenes from other films can be seen, including soldiers from Starship Troopers , and the soldiers in the film also wear the old body armor from Starship Troopers.

Awards

Gary Fleder has been nominated for a prize from the Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Impostor . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2011 (PDF; test number: 101 234 V).
  2. ↑ Impostor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed April 14, 2012 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Impostor (2001) on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed April 14, 2012