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Okay, there are no bad movies featured here today, but they aren’t all equally good.

~ Replicant (2001) surprises us by demonstrating Jean-Claude Van Damme can play two very different roles in a movie and impresses us with his acting.

~ Eight Legged Freaks (2002) does a mediocre job of reviving the “big bug” movies of the 1950s.

~ Minority Report (2002) is a dazzling sci-fi / adventure with a unique premise and a powerhouse performance from Tom Cruise.

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Replicant (2001)

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Director Ringo Lam teamed up with Jean-Claude Van Damme to make a very intelligent and entertaining action/crime drama that really proves Mr. Van Damme can act.

In a dual role, Van Damme plays a brutal, psychopathic killer and . . . a clone of the killer, created in a manner that gives him some of the killer's memories as well as a telepathic link.

Van Damme's portrayal of the childlike clone in a body that looks forty (like the killer's) is very convincing.

Michael Rooker plays a Seattle police detective who desperately wants to end the years-long killing spree of the maniac, using the clone to gain insights into the killer's way of thinking. The clone is tortured by the images in his head of terrible acts the killer has committed, and Rooker hates him because he resembles his enemy and (he presumes) has the same murderous tendencies.

This film was released direct to video in the U.S. — but that certainly doesn't mean it isn't a fine movie. Give it a shot.

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Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

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Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich did it again.

First they made "Independence Day" in the best tradition of the 1950 invasion movies.

Then they made "Godzilla" in the best tradition of the monster in the city movies like "King Kong" and "Beast from 20,000 Fathoms".

And with "Eight Legged Freaks" they tried (but didn't entirely succeed) to honor the Big Bug movies like "Tarantua" and "Them!". They even set the story in a small desert town, ala director Jack Arnold.

The movie didn't exactly soar like an eagle at the box office, but it didn't crash and burn either. The problem is that even though the movie isn't really bad, it isn't really good. The characters just don't have the razzle dazzle that Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith did in "ID4". Nor did the movie have funny characters like Matthew Broderick and his crowd in "Godzilla".

Admittedly it tried hard to give us the funny characters, but they just didn't quite work.

And the FX that sucked our eyes right out of their sockets in those two earlier movies just weren't there in "Eight Legged Freaks". Leaping spiders chasing dirt bikers don't compete well with a huge hovering motherships and thirty-story monsters.

But I have to tip my hat to this talented team of filmmakers for keeping the old traditions alive. According to Wikipedia, Devlin and Emmerich's next project is a sequel to "Independence Day", with the strong possibility that a third film will be shot back-to-back with the second.

I'm looking forward to it!
Very Happy
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Minority Report (2002)



One heck of an energetic sci-fi action/adventure from Tom Cruise, with some strange and wonderful concepts driving the plot.

The first time I saw it, however, I really disliked the way the photography was deliberately pale and washed out, with very little color. It just seemed annoying, rather than atmospheric as intended.

My only complaint with the plot was that I never quite understood the reason the bad guy does what he does. Maybe it's something I sort of forget between viewings and then go, "Oh, right. Now I remember," the next time I see it. Very Happy

But on the whole, this is a very entertaining movie.

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