Highly Overrated But Still Good

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Second Nature is a low grade Bourne clone that benefits from two great actors in the lead roles. Slight, airy and inconsequential, it inhabits the clandestine corner reserved for middle-of-the-road espionage ventures neatly. Alec Baldwin plays a mysterious man who recovers from a plane crash that killed his family, left with heavy amnesia and confusion surrounding his past. When a shadowy agency bigwig (Powers Boothe) contacts him claiming he used to be an assassin for his outfit, he's thrown back in the world of high profile contract killing, the world he came from, allegedly anyway. Nothing is as it seems though, and of course his boss turns out to be a bad dude, which gives Boothe a chance to ratchet up the intensity. The film is pretty much average throughout, until we find out Baldwin's origins and arrive at a fairly thoughtful ending with some work put into storytelling, the first signs of a creative pulse in the film beyond garden variety plot twists. Baldwin is always great, whether on the protagonist's or antagonist's bench, and he sells the material well enough.

(spoilers??)Without that stupid backstory, this movie might have been pretty good. Somehow though, the folks in the looney barn decided to make the film with a sci fi slant. Can you imagine a very bad crook, having plastic surgery to look like Alec Baldwin? Were they senile?The film does pretty good to keep us guessing, but when it's revealed about the brainwashing/plastic surgery crap, the movie goes to hell in a handbasket. Certainly better than some of Steven Seagal's films, but stupid nonetheless.5/106/10 (story 1/10) Entertainment: 5/10 Replayable: 2/10

I thought this movie had an above average plot, and actually looked like it would be better than the Borne Identity at first. However, shoddy acting and an anticlimatic finish to the movie really don't help it any.If you're looking for an action movie, don't rent this as it has very little. If you're looking for a psychological thriller, don't rent this as the plot twists become contrived at the end to help along the plot. As a matter of fact, I simply can't think of anyone who would feel compelled to see this. Just an average movie that would be worth watching if you catch it on TV and don't have anything else to do.Don't let your expectations get too high early, however.

Short summary - no spoilers.Baldwin plays an assassin who recover from a plane crash where all his family dies. But he can't kill on his first assignment after the recovery and find out something is not what is seems to be.I find this movie at the local video rental store under the name "Manden uden navn" which in English would be "The man without a name".Baldwin does not have one of his best performances in this TV movie but it is okay as a time killer for a week night.I gave it 5 IMDB stars.