XChange

Rating:
Summary: Beats "The Sixth Day" by a mile!
Review: This is an innovative sci-fi film with a great cast and a smart script.. Better than a lot of features out there. Excellent cinematography and a weird but affecting score. Wish the DVD had a commentary track and special features, though.

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Summary: I WANT MY BODY BACK
Review: Why does Stephen Baldwin get so much work in these straight to video movies? While certainly not an actor of Oscar-caliber, Baldwin has managed to parlay his laconic, at times stupefying presence, into the good guy that women want to cuddle and tell him everything's going to be all right. I've enjoyed many of his movies (particularly Dead Awake and Fall Time), and in this one, he delivers another of his staid, almost robotic performances, and it works.
Kyle McLachlan, on the other hand, seems disinterested in his role, and Kim Coates is effective in a rare "good guy" role. Sleazy Janet Kidder does well as the corporate henchwoman, and Pascale Bussieres is fun as Baldwin/Coates' squeeze.
The idea of switching bodies is fun, but one could see the deadly consequences if you didn't want your own body back.
XCHANGE is a fun little sci fi thriller, with some implausible scenarios of course, but it is SCIENCE FICTION, not fact, and I found myself enjoying the way it played out.

Rating:
Summary: Well crafted, original, and very entertaining.
Review: Xchange shows how much can be accomplished in the sci-fi arena with a modest budget when you have a highly original script, good actors, and a director with imagination and style. This movie grabs you in the first scene and keeps you guessing as its plot veers from one explosive-but-believable turn to the next. You have to give credit to a film whose main character is played by three different actors and yet still manages to make the audience care deeply about his fate. Kyle MacLachlan gives a powerful and sympathetic performance as a man who has literally lost his body.

Rating:
Summary: Well crafted, original, and very entertaining.
Review: Xchange shows how much can be accomplished in the sci-fi arena with a modest budget when you have a highly original script, good actors, and a director with imagination and style. This movie grabs you in the first scene and keeps you guessing as its plot veers from one explosive-but-believable turn to the next. You have to give credit to a film whose main character is played by three different actors and yet still manages to make the audience care deeply about his fate. Kyle MacLachlan gives a powerful and sympathetic performance as a man who has literally lost his body.