When I firsat saw the trailers for this movie it looked pretty good, then I found that the only plac it was playing was the cheap theater across town and I thought perhaps it's just good schlock. Then the first of the opening credits told us that the film's based on an old story by Philip K. Dick and my hopes rose again. Don't let the old formula of Android + SciFi = B-movie sell this film short because it is NOT a B-movie.

First off, if you haven't heard of Philip K. Dick then your classic SciFi education needs tending to; if you haven't read the story then no fair peeking ahead now. Just go ahead and see the film first, then tend to your education.

That said, this is a film about an incidnt amidst interstellar war in which a respected man is accused of being a biological duplicate of the real guy. Naturally he insists he isn't and therein lies the chase and quest for proof. Cops chase the guy who insists he's innocent while fighting the clock, as the imposter has a bomb within him set to kill a very important leader of Earth. Making things worse is the fact that neither the bomb nor any aspects of the imposter show up on any known form of scanner; the only way to pick them up is to rip their heart out. Apparently the aliens' nano-technology is rather advanced (remember, this story was written in 1953 and the guy was talking nanotechnology! That'll teach you to read more), which just makes life more difficult for out persistent hero.

This is a very engaging movie, filled with action and plot. One of those very few instancs in which someone takes a science fiction story written by an actual author and doesn't mess it up. See it.