"The Outer Limits" Identity Crisis (TV Episode 1998) Poster

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All Motives Military!
Hitchcoc30 May 2014
Lou Diamond Phillips is a bit of a Guinea pig. He is part of a project to transfer the mind of a human into the body of an indestructible android. This would allow a battalion of these things to engage in battle. Of course, they are always interested in killing machines. Phillips sits in a booth and his mind goes into this new body that is impervious to nearly everything, including huge jolts of electricity. After the experiments, his mind is returned to him and his life is normal. One day he leaves his beautiful wife and wonderful home and goes back to the lab. This time something goes wrong. Everything goes haywire and his earthly body is destroyed. Now he is stuck in his android body and it, too, is malfunctioning. He only has a short time. Meanwhile, the government, seeing the implications of such a thing running loose, set out to destroy him. At this point, everything becomes an even bigger reach. The conclusion is way too pat but see for yourself.
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7/10
TRAPPED IN AN ANDROID
asalerno1016 June 2022
A soldier volunteers for a new military experiment. It is about transferring his mind to the body of an android and in this way getting him to perform tasks impossible for a human being, and then reversing the process and returning his mind to his own body. The experiment works at first until one day, due to an apparent sabotage, the capsule where his human body is located suffers a short circuit that carbonizes his body, leaving his mind forever trapped in an artificial body that begins to appear defective over time. A good story that also shows the drama of the soldier not being able to continue with his normal life with his family. The descenlace is well done and is a happy ending.
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