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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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11.27.04
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Freya McAllister (Navi Rawat), on the night of her high school senior prom, is overwhelmed when she starts hearing the thoughts of everyone there. She retreats into a world of her own, seemingly autistic, and is committed to a mental institution for eight years. During this time her father dies and her sister moves away. Then, one day, she discovers that she's able to block the barrage of thoughts in her mind when she concentrates on reading a book. Soon she's reading every book in the institution.Dr. Welles (Peter Horton) shows up and tells her that she isn't crazy, that she is a mind-reader and doesn't know how to control her powers. He takes her out of the mental institution and teaches her how to block out thoughts and to concentrate reading one mind at a time. When he takes her to his workplace and introduces her to the employees she's surprised when she actually experiences quite in her mind. Through certain techniques, created by Dr. Welles, they are able to block their thoughts.Of course, Dr. Welles has a purpose for helping her. He works for the National Security Agency and they need a mind reader in order to hunt down an infamous assassin. Yet the people they are up against are also able to block their thoughts.The majority of the movie is about Freya dealing with her newly controlled abilities-and her reluctance to work for the government agency. She's left little choice, though, because she has nowhere else to go, no one else to help her with her powers. THOUGHT CRIMES reminded me a bit of the tv series ALIAS and actress Rawat is as photogenic as Jennifer Garner. It would make for an interesting action/supernatural series.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - 0 votes cast total
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