Impostor (2002, USA)

Why does Hollywood insist on making the less powerful Philip K. Dick stories into movies? That’s what happened here too. Just like in BladeRunner the question is what makes us human? If you can clone the body perfectly, transfer memories, thoughts, feelings than how the clone is different from the original. The answer told by the sinister detective guy is that the soul is unique and cannot be transferred. And they leave it hanging there, there is no continuation of this idea at all here.Instead the main accused and fugitive man is trying to prove that he is human and not a clone. I do not want to spoil you with the answer, that has imaginative and predictable elements. The (anti?)hero’s wife was played by Madeleine Stowe who also played a doctor, a loving sidekick to a man on the run in the 12 Monkeys. Vincent D’Onofrio filled in the role of the major/detective. I have seen him recently on some horrid cop tv show series (probably an incarnation of Law & Order or CCSI) where he plays a guy who just gets under everybody’s skin with his style. He pretty much played the same role here. Despisable, arrogant, heartless cop. It doesn’t help that he ay be on the right side of the law or may be not.