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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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01.03.04
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This Dean Koontz novel adaptation is just okay. Stephen Baldwin (the little Baldwin) is an author who is accidently cloned by a secret government organization. They mistakingly take his blood from the hospital rather than the athlete they were supposed to clone. We're shown how the clone quickly grows, to an adult within five years, and how different its behavior is from the original.The clone is used as an assassin to kill political leaders & problems. But he starts having doubts about what he's doing, longing for a family life he never had. When he starts getting flashes of the author's life-of his wife and two daughters-he's compelled to find them, leaving bodies along the way. When a popular magazine comes out with an article about the author the agency realizes they've cloned the wrong person.There's a confrontation between Baldwin and the doppelganger that's somewhat lackluster and in the end the family has to flee and get a new identity because the police think that he'd done all the murders because his fingerprints are on everything.My biggest problem with this four hour movie is that I never bought it that Baldwin was this author character with a family, he just couldn't pull it off. There was no chemistry between him and the other actors. But as the killer clone he's good, simply because he has a creepy demeanor to begin with.As with all Dean Koontz book movie adaptations the book is better.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - 0 votes cast total
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