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 Movie A- |
Video A- | Audio A
| Extras B- | Recommended!
Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio,
Mekhi Phifer, Tony Shalhoub, Tim Guinee
director Gary Fleder | Dimension Home Video
2001 | Psychological Thriller - Science Fiction | R | 102 minutes
Region 1 | DVD-9
anamorphic
widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio
| Dolby Digital 5.1
Summary: Spencer Olham (Gary Sinise) is
a brilliant government scientist who designs a weapon that could help save
earth from alien invasion. After a weekend camping trip with his
beautiful wife (Madeleine Stowe), where incidentally a massive forest fire has suddenly started,
Spencer
returns to work and finds out the he is accused of being an alien
assassin. Without a formal trial, Special Agent Hathaway (Vincent D'Onofrio) is ready
to execute Spencer to eliminate the potential threat to the Chancellor,
who was coming to town for a visit. Under the influence of
Hathaway's psychological drugs, Spencer experiences disorienting nightmares during his
escape from Hathaway. He is persistent and creative in his maneuvers
to elude agent Hathaway long enough to find proof that he is the human
Spencer.
That's all I can
tell you without giving away the most provocative plot with an ending that
will blast your imagination. The special effects were surprisingly well done for a
movie of this budget. I would have guessed that The Impostor is a big
budget sci-fi flick from the quality of its visual special effects.
The surround sound is also well mixed too, with plenty of surround sound
channel effects. If you like science fiction and/or psychological
thrillers, definitely give The Impostor a spin.
Special Features: The Impostor Files -
original featurette, original Impostor short film (gives the gist
of the story), theatrical trailer
DVD released on 7/9/2002 | Reviewed 8/28/2002
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Associated equipment used in evaluation: Sony
DVP-S7700 reference DVD player, Sony
KP-61V45 61" rear projection TV (4:3 screen aspect ratio), Sony ES STR-V444ES A/V receiver, four
B&W CDM 9NTs as left/right main speakers
and left/right surrounds, B&W CDM CNT center channel speaker, Monster Cable M-series S-Video cable MSV-500, Monster
Cable Interlink LightSpeed 100 (Toslink) optical cable, Monster Cable
Interlink 400 MKII interconnects, Monster Cable
Original speaker cables in bi-wire configuration with Monster Cable twist-on gold-plated banana plug
connectors, Lovan Sovereign T HiFi audio
rack, and Sony MDR-V600 studio monitor headphones. Our home theater equipment was calibrated
with the Video
Essentials DVD.
Be sure to check out our Top 10 DVDs of the year
2001 and our list of this year's Oscar winners on DVD.
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