Ludicrous, ridiculous, contrived, utterly unbelievable

Rating: 2/10 (4 September 1999)

There are way too many unbelievable plot twists to list here. I have no problems with the sci-fi parts...I can suspend disbelief as well as the next guy...but many of the plot developments don't pass the laugh test. (Ultra-dangerous criminal left unrestrained in a hospital; man manages to escape from ultra-max security facility without advance planning or outside help; etc etc)
The script seems to keep coming back to a bilateral symmetry--each man becoming the mirror image, so to speak, of the other...another reason why the whole thing feels so contrived.
Could have been interesting, had the scriptwriters been in the habit of performing reality checks. But this turkey is destined to be fodder for MST5K.