vbel A famous author (not Dean Koontz) meets his evil clone. The clone wants to lead a normal life by taking over his family.I don't know why so many reviews are down on Baldwin. I thought that he and the whole cast did a good job, including the four child actors.The movie's a little slow but still good if you take two nights to watch it. It's much better than Servants of Twilight (from Koontz's novel Twilight) and many other of his movies.Intensity was really good as was the more recent Odd Thomas.

Alan Deikman (Alan-40) I rented this as a DVD, unaware that it was originally made for TV. The screenplay has obvious breaks in it where commercials are meant to go, and they were so emphatically built up that I kept reaching for the "mute" button on the remote!The story itself works, and Baldwin does a good job of carrying off both the good guy and the bad guy role. The writer and director seem to have the good sense not to overdo things.Take for example the kid characters. Two young girls, obviously hostage bait, and they end up in the bad-guy's hands more than once. They're cute, but they are neither too brainless or unreasonably savvy, and we've seen too much of both extremes in that role in similar films. The older one does some fairly clever thinking that adds to the story.Less well convincing were the cops, who start out good when they doubting the hero's story, but actually become more passive as the show goes on.Probably the best thing to watch is not the villain, but the villain's villain, Drew Oslett Jr. Thomas Church actually looks like he could be James Coburn's son. But it is character's internal pain that drives the whole story. Church does his best, but it would have been interesting to give him more screen time to do it in.The "science" part of this movie is really skipped over; anyone not willing to suspend disbelief will be sorely unsatisfied.All in all worth seeing for a weekend with nothing else to do.

jebiga wow! the worst movie ever!!!! i'm so anxious to write about how bad it is - that i had to log in here while it is still running on my VCR. where to start...? baldwin, ok. - can someone be really that bad or there is some kind of special training for it? if they hired a beer bottle (plain 12oz beer bottle) to act instead of hit - it would have done a better job. screenplay? already seen - about 50 times. altogether - i already spent too much time on this... so 1/10.

Cactus-5 Ok.. I was planning to give this one a bad review, and when I found out that I saw the 127 minute edited version and not the hour longer original version, it just came clear to me how lucky I was. In short, if you've ever seen a thriller before then you will know all the twists and turns and it's just boring and bad. As for the "effects" when Stephen Baldwin wrestles himself... we just fell over laughing. And if you've ever read more than one Dean R. Koontz book then you probably know it involves a government experiment gone wrong. Avoid. Please.