Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker, Sarah Wynter, Wendy Crewson, Rodney Rowland, Robert Duvall

- Reviewed by Tom

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Adam Gibson who is a pilot for a charter helicopter company sometime in the near future. It appears that this future is only about five or so years from now, since much of the world looks very similar to things now, but with a few more fancy gadgets. Cloning has pretty much been perfected, but of course it is illegal to clone humans. There is a big business in the future called RePet, where if your dog or cat dies, you can have Pooky or Spot back to life again with all memories and appearances intact in just a few hours. 

Arnold is flying a helicopter customer up to do some heli-skiing when something evil happens. When he gets home, he finds himself cloned and sees himself with his family. Oh, I should mention that there is the creepiest toy in the movie, it is a doll called a "SimPal" and it talks and moves in kind of a creepy-slow-child kind of way (1 slice just for that!)... the future of toys looks very wrong.

It ends up that Gibson (Arnold) was not supposed to be cloned since he wasn't dead—and of course you can't have two of the same people running around—so the chase begins.  The cloned employees of the cloning company are chasing and Gibson is running (and kicking ass, and killing them multiple times—clones remember?). Gibson finally meets up with himself and they become partners as they both confuse and beat up the cloned employees. Of course in the end we all know that the good guys win (maybe a spoiler, but it is an Arnold movie, and he never dies!). 

I found the movie to be a mix of Demolition Man (the near-future gadgets), Total Recall (Arnold confused about who he really is), and that episode of Star Trek: TNG—you know the one, the one with Riker and his transporter accident-twin Thomas!

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