Suspect Device

1995
4.8| 1h30m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 1995 Released
Producted By: Showtime Networks
Country: United States of America
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Sci-fi action tale of a man who discovers that no one recognizes him... no one except his government that is; and "they" are working overtime to erase him from existance.

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Rick Jacobson

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Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
DigitalRevenantX7 The Story: Dan W. Jericho, a low-level government analyst, finds a mysterious program named 'Suspect Device' on his computer. At that moment, an armed terrorist team breaks in & massacres everyone in the building except for Dan. On the run, with armed assassins from the CIA's Gamma dark ops division after him, Dan discovers that nobody knows him & that he has the fighting skills of a martial arts master. After tracking down a college girlfriend, Dan finds out that he is an indestructible cyborg with a small nuclear bomb in his skull.Sometimes you never know when you find a decent film while shopping for bargain-basement DVDs. After buying a box-set of ten cheap action films for ten dollars, I wasn't expecting much. True, eight of the films were crappy military-themed actioners from the Royal Oaks stable, but the remaining two, "Dark Breed" & "Suspect Device", were surprisingly good. I liked them so much that I bought them on their own (for $2 each)."Suspect Device" at first starts off like just another action cheapie from the studios of Roger Corman. There's a very badly directed scene involving a poker game between friends being interrupted by heavily armed terrorists who gun down everyone, only for us to discover that it's a dream, followed by a cheap sex scene with C. Thomas Howell banging a blonde with massive breasts. Sure enough, the action scenes in this film are quite silly, with Howell shooting bad guys in the open, with no visible cover.In the final half hour, the film changes from being a rip-off of "Three Days of the Condor" to being a quite original film involving nuclear-armed cyborgs. There's a cool moment when Howell's body spits out bullets & heals in a few seconds. I was quite surprised. There are a few plot holes in the script, for example, we never know which parts of Howell's life are real or fantasy, but that does not detract from the film too much.
Nash Buchanan Suspect Device is not a good movie, but it's not a *bad* bad movie. It's surprisingly riveting as you're watching it, but when the credits start rolling, you suddenly realize nothing you've just seen made any sense whatsoever. It barely stops once it starts, that's why. It's obviously riffing off of Terminator 2, with a sort of Fugitive vibe.C Thomas Howell, a staple in these films, stars as a business worker for the government who is plagued by violent dreams of people around him getting killed, and one day he wakes up and they are. What you must do is run with this movie, and don't stop and question the plot holes or the whole film caves in.**1/2 out of 5
Wizard-8 It's standard stuff for the first half or so, with a plot that's a pretty blatant rip-off of THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. Then suddenly we get some twists in the plot that are so silly and/or jaw-dropping, you can't help but get sucked in. And it had a very memorable ending. Film suffers from typical Roger Corman cheapness (including ripping off footage from a famous made-for-tv movie), and the action scenes sometimes get pretty dumb, especially when you see wimpy C. Thomas Howell attempting to be an action hero. Verdict: if you like B-movies, and you don't mind them a little cheesy, you'll probably like this.
Flash-31 Lot of potential in plot but somehow it didn't flow as it should have (poor direction?). Good acting by C. Thomas and lead actress.