Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Fantastic!

A Masterpiece!

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

tomorrow... There is a new technology to exchange consciousness between two bodies. XChange allows people to travel great distances by doing a mind transfer. Fisk (Kyle MacLachlan) is a terrorist using guided missiles on targeted assassinations. Toffler (Kim Coates) is a member of the entitled corporate class. He reluctantly uses XChange to travel from New York to San Francisco. Unbeknowst to him, the other side is Fisk. Upon returning to New York, he is detained to keep the incident secret. He manages to escape and download his mind into a temporary clone (Stephen Baldwin). He gets help from anti-XChange journalist Madeleine Renard (Pascale Bussières) to track down his body before the clone terminates.This is a Canadian sci-fi. The idea seems compelling at first but it doesn't make a second pass at the logic test. The STD alone is enough to end the system. Transferring into the Baldwin clones would make more sense. I've seen that movie, too. A lot of this are old sci-fi tropes. The production is lower budget. The special effects are second tier. The most troubling is that the three leads play the same guy at one point or another. I don't see Kim Coates, Kyle MacLachlan, and Stephen Baldwin playing the same Toffler. It may be asking too much for Baldwin to do good acting. I simply don't buy they are the same character. This lesser sci-fi tries a couple of interesting ideas but it doesn't completely succeed.

actually - surprisingly good! xchange has an interesting story, very good in the details. it is overall well thought - as a set, story and 'futuristic society' elements. it does say 'made-for-tv' and 'low-budget' all over it, but it is un-deserved to treat it like a bad movie, in fact i'd say it overachieves, and this is mainly due to the story. given better budget this could be a movie hit, alas all the sex scenes would've been cut then :) it is a kind of surprising about these sex scenes, as they don't add anything to the story. actually they make this already low-budget movie seem like a high-budget erotic movie if you're really biased to look at things this wayanyway - as a sci-fi fan i enjoyed 'xchange', and thats all i have to say about that

Xchange starts, & I quote, 'Tomorrow' in New York (complete with the Twin Towers...) where powerful businessman Eisner Scott (Scot Denton) is assassinated one night after dinner, it is thought that a terrorist organisation known as the 'NIA' was responsible. To smooth things over with the press Eisner's son Quayle (Charles Powell) calls in PR man Stewart Toffler (Kim Coates), unfortunately Quayle & the press conference is in San Francisco while Toffler is in New York so Toffler uses a process called Xchange where his consciousness is swapped with another person in San Francisco & thus swapping bodies too. Everything goes extremely well to start with & the press conference is a success but upon his return to be Xchanged back into his proper body Toffler (Kyle MacLachlan) discovers that his old body is now being used by terrorist named Fisk, as the company wants to keep the incident quiet Toffler is put under armed guard but manages to escape by Xchanging into a genetically engineered clone (Stephen Baldwin) that only lasts for 48 hours. Toffler contacts a friend named Madeleine Renard (Pascale Bussieres) a journalist who opposes the Xchange process, together they must locate Toffler's real body before time runs out...This Canadian produced film was directed by Allan Moyle & is an OK time waster but the whole thing feels empty & distinctly average. The script by Christopher Pelham is alright, the film reveals it's twists too early as by the half way mark you know pretty much everything. Not that it's difficult to guess where Xchange is going, in fact it's far too easy work out what's going to happen. The budget obviously wasn't high as although Xchange is meant to be set in the future everything looks exactly like it does now apart from the interiors of the Xchange building & some of the props & technology. The central idea is solid & makes for a decent story but I couldn't help feel I was watching some cheap shot-for-TV film with it's lacklustre production design, generally poor special effects, dull cinematography, music I can't even remember even though I only watched it a few hours ago, desperate has been actors & a complete lack of anything exciting. There are a few sex scenes here but even they can't save Xchange from being throughly average, the sort of film that you would put on but wouldn't mind pooping out to the kitchen to make dinner while it's on or reading a book at the same time, there's just something about Xchange that totally failed to grip or engage me in anyway. There are a couple of nice moments, like when Toffler's boss Xchange's bodies with his personal trainer so he can work out in his body while he sits back & relaxes. Director Moyle fails to inject any sort of pace, excitement or suspense into the proceedings which obviously doesn't help Xchange's entertainment value. Oh OK I'll say it, I didn't want to but I will, Xchange looks like a cheap X-Files (1993 - 2002) episode. There is a touch of violence with a severed finger & a couple of gunfights but nothing that would worry or impress anybody these days. The acting is pretty poor throughout, the bad guy is bland & dull & I just never felt anything for anyone. Xchange is not a great film but then it's not a really bad one either, it's a film which left me somewhat cold & indifferent. It's an OK way to pass 100 odd minutes if you have nothing better to do or watch but I doubt it will blow anyone's socks off. Xchange is average at best, bland nonsense at worst but usually stuck somewhere between the two.

The movie is as mixed as it's comments here. First you think it's science fiction, but soon you realize it's a pure thriller; yet it's basic premise is pure SF, and good one at that - simple, yet somehow unused in SF before... makes you wonder how come no one else thought of this before. And also makes you wish somebody else did, because they might have gotten more out of it. Yet, it was watchable...The story has many holes though - one of the most stupid details for me was the thing with the clone's countdown clock: when it turns out that the clock can be tracked via satellite - and therefore also the body carrying it - Baldwin (with the help of his gf) cuts it out of his arm, including about 100g of arm flesh; but then he carries it around in his pocket for the rest of the movie... why the hell did he cut it off if he keeps it with him afterwards??? :)