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20 May 2003 (Kuwait)
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Out of Time. Out of Bodies.
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In the future, where it's faster to travel by exchanging bodies with someone at the destination, a man's body is hijacked by a ruthless terrorist. full summary | add synopsis
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Had potential but doesn't have any tension or excitement
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Stephen Baldwin | ... | Clone #1 / Toffler 3 |
 | Pascale Bussières | ... | Madeleine Renard |
 | Kim Coates | ... | Toffler / Fisk 2 |
 | Kyle MacLachlan | ... | Fisk / Toffler 2 (as Kyle Maclachlan) |
| Tom Rack | ... | Mr. Finerman |
 | Arnold Pinnock | ... | Dickerson |
| Charles Edwin Powell | ... | Quayle Scott (as Charles Powell) |
 | Judah Katz | ... | Lister |
 | Sean Devine | ... | Rix |
| Janet Kidder | ... | Alison De Waay |
 | Larry Day | ... | Walt Simons |
| Andreas Apergis | ... | Chan |
 | Lisa Bronwyn Moore | ... | Glowacki 2 |
 | Jayne Heitmeyer | ... | Proponia |
 | Amy Sloan | ... | Glowacki 1 |
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Rated R for strong sexuality, violence and language.
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110 min
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Continuity: When Toffler and Renard arrive at the hotel (to find Fisk) Toffler's timer shows "8:14 timer3" (8hours 14minutes). After being hit over the head and kidnapped Toffler wakes up in a warehouse near the harbour and the timer shows "0:31 timer1". They get away at "0:23 timer1", cross the bridge at "0:05:53 timer3" and transfer him back into his own body at "0:00:46 timer3". Apart from the change of the timer number, was he really unconscious for 7hours 43 minutes?
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References High Fidelity (2000)
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Heaven
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In the near future, corporate customers can save time on air travel by jumping into other bodies for short periods of time. Despite being unwilling, Toffler jumps into a body in order to attend a meeting in San Francisco. However, when it comes to returning to his old body he is told that his body has been stolen by the terrorist who had been in the body he jumped into. Toffler jumps into a clone in order to escape and, with a temporary body decomposing over 54 hours, he sets out to find Fisk and reclaim his body.
In the near future, body switching is possible for the rich, id badges tell everyone who you are, High Fidelity is playing at the cinema, but yet nobody has ever seen the film Face/Off. Yes - this is the future as seen in a low budget movie. Alarm bells rang for me when the credits revealed that this was, yes, a film who's main cast were Baldwin, MacLachlan and Coates! Happily though, it wasn't actually that bad, just rather unexciting and uninspiring. The plot has promise but it doesn't deliver it well enough. Face/Off had the same basic plot but it moved much quicker and slicker than this. The problem is that the plot feels too baggy and ill thought out with too much that isn't fully expanded on. This wouldn't be a major problem if the film moved slickly and with a lot of energy.
Sadly, it doesn't. The film has the odd exciting moment but generally it lacks tension and is a bit too slow and talky. Three times the film falls back on needless sex scenes in an attempt to give the audience what it came for. The conclusion of the film is obvious and, for that reason, lacks punch. It's a shame because, even with a low budget and less-than-perfect effects, the film could still have been exciting if the director had done a better job with the pacing of the film; as it is he delivers it too slowly.
The good ideas flicker up along the way - the best being near the end as Toffler's disregard for his cloned body becomes useful, but generally it is quite lacklustre. Even though the cast suggested worse, they were actually reasonably good. Coates is always watchable and, don't worry, after a brief spell as the good buy he soon changes to the bad guy role. MacLachlan seems to have taken the role just as a cameo and a chance to have a sex scene. Baldwin is slumming and it shows a bit too often. He is OK for the film but he didn't have that much in the way of charisma; sure he played more than one character, but he still wasn't all that hot.
Overall this is not as bad a film as I have maybe put across here. If you have rented it as a cheapy video or are watching it on a low rent cable station, then you probably know what's in store. As such, it works OK but it is still hard to overlook a plot that could have been tighter and a film that really needed a lot more in the way of tension and excitement to keep it going. Worth watching if you're in the mood.