Crappy film

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The plot follows a man who discovers he has been brainwashed to kill a government official. This film was very good. It is a well made thriller that doesn't seem like it got the kind of audience that it deserved. Yeah it does have some lacking parts but none the less still holds up pretty well. I actually didn't know this film existed until a friend told me about it and they loved it, so I just had to see it. It is a very underrated suspenseful film with a good story and some great performances from Michael Dudikoff, who I had never seen in a film before but really impressed me with this film. Also Heather Langenkamp, best known for the Nightmare On Elm Street films, did really well and she also impressed me by proving that she could be great as a drama film actress as well as a horror film actress.

CAUTION: Possible plot spoilers present.Electrician Robert Dean finds himself in trouble when a group of men try to abduct him. He goes to his wife for help but discovers her on the phone with the men. Finding a floppy disk hidden behind one of his photos, Dean sneaks into his workplace – the medical company Gencom – and runs the disk. He is surprised to find that he was actually somebody else – former soldier John Rice – who was captured & brainwashed into becoming an assassin for Gencom's interests. Along with a female friend who was also captured, Dean must expose the company's plans to assassinate a senator who is trying to expose Gencom's activities to the media.Ever since he served as DOP on the cult Nazi zombie classic SHOCK WAVES back in the 1970s, Fred Olen Ray has made a living making low-budget genre films. Unlike Jim Wynorski, Olen Ray does things with his own style of filmmaking – and he is not dishonest like Wynorski. Olen Ray's films do not aim too high but wear their cheapness as a badge of honour.Alas, even Fred Olen Ray can make mistakes. Fugitive Mind is one of those mistakes. The film models itself as a conspiracy thriller but doesn't actually expose the conspiracy coherently enough to be understood. Olen Ray for some reason doesn't put any humour in the film, playing everything straight to the film's detriment. The film's first act has us believe that Michael Dudikoff's tradesman is a victim of some sort of conspiracy but the second act drops the ball completely. It is never made clear what the actual plans of the Gencom company is – they are revealed to have an insider working for the senator but the purpose of this is unclear. Also there is a private detective trying to expose the conspiracy but he is killed off just when things get interesting.The film's cast are competent enough to survive the film's collapse but they must have had been hard up for the money to sign up for this dreck. Michael Dudikoff, who has been one of Royal Oaks' stock actors for much of the 1990s, does a decent job as usual, but the rest of the cast seem clueless as to what is going on here.

The plot is a good one and the acting is good,but the movie does not quite live up to it's potential. The story is similar to another film entitled "The Manchurian Candidate". Which is about a man who is brainwashed or psychologically programmed into carrying out an assassination. My recommendation is to rent or watch "The Manchurian Candidate" instead of this one, which seems like a pale imitation. This movie seems like a production that was hastily put together without much thought or planning. The result is that the movie doesn't seem quite convincing and instead rather weak. Watch this only if you have nothing else better to do with your time.

Oh man! Do NOT watch this movie! Do NOT rent this movie! Do NOT buy this movie! It's so terrible! It's the worst movie I've ever seen (along with Arrival II).I was suckered in by the box art and because it was in the science fiction section of the video store, so I rented it. There is no science fiction in it whatsoever! Terrible plot, terrible acting, terrible everything!Thing is, I recognized one or two actors in this movie that I thought were decent, but in this movie, they seriously suck!Do NOT make the same mistake I did. Save your money and rent some REAL science fiction, if that's what you're after.