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.

I don't see why a lot of people on here are so hard on this movie,I personally thought it was a GREAT movie.The acting was good especially from Stephen Baldwin,its not easy to play a duel role,but I thought he did a really good job on it. Yea the movie was a little long when it could have easily only taken less time. Other than that I really enjoyed it.I even stayed up until 5:00 in the morning and was exhausted,but just couldn't seem to pull myself away from the screen. Some one mentioned that they couldn't see compassion in the characters,well I think Stephen's characters definitely showed a lot of compassion.I got attached to Marty Stillwater ha-ha.Thank goodness he didn't die. I was kind of sad to see Alfie die because he did save Marty's two girls,he never tried to hurt any of the family members,he was just creepy. So all in all I would recommend this movie! Especially if you like to watch late night movies,this makes a great one.

I rented this as a DVD, unaware that it was originally made for TV.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.

Good Film. Decent Acting. Fine Plot (kinda like Soldier). Too Long !!!The film starts well. It had me thinking that this kind of GM/Clone type stuff is possible and may well have been tried by governments as we speak. After a great opening 45 minutes the film descends into farce. Chase, evade, catch fight, chase, escape, fight, catch, chase, etc... At on point it feels like a superman flick. One leaves as the other enters, etc. Laughable. I did however enjoy the pathetic special effects when Baldwin was fighting with himself. Shocking!