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The Island
List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $20.99
DVD - 13 December, 2005
Dreamworks Video
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 days
Director: Michael Bay
Number of Media: 1
Features: - AC-3
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| DVD Description When you add up all the best things about The Island, you might just conclude that there's hope yet for Hollywood's most critically reviled hit-maker, Michael Bay. Recruited by Steven Spielberg to direct this lavish and often breathtaking sci-fi action thriller, Bay rises to the occasion with an ambitious production that is, by his standards (and compared to Bay's earlier hits like The Rock and Armageddon), surprisingly intelligent as it explores the repercussions of cloning in a sealed-off society where humans are cultivated for spare parts, surrogate parenthood, and full-body replacements for wealthy clientele. But when two of the clones (Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johanssen) begin to question their fate and the motives of their keepers, they escape into the real world and The Island becomes just another Michael Bay action extravaganza, albeit an impressively exciting one. With elaborate chase scenes and a high-tech feast of CGI to dazzle the eye, The Island recycles much of the plot from 1979's Clonus while borrowing elements from Logan's Run, Gattaca and Minority Report, and while it's not as smartly conceived as those earlier films, there's no denying that, in many ways, it's Bay's best film to date. --Jeff Shannon |
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Why I didn't walk out of this movie There's only one thing that kept me from walking out on this movie: the fact that I was on an airplane at the time. I elected instead to read a book, while keeping the earphones on to see if I could catalog the complete set of sci-fi cliches:
* White utopian future, like THX-1138: check
* Highly monitored, like The Truman Show (and THX-1138): check
* Thought control of inhabitants through inspirational sayings, like 1984: check
* Comatose people in vats of liquid, like The Matrix and Minority Report: check
* Misfit feels he doesn't fit in, like most of the above: check
* Realization that people are being used for an evil purpose, like Soylent Green: check
I did like Steve Buscemi, and since I didn't turn off the headphones I'd have to give it more than one star, but if you've seen any of the movies listed above, you can safely skip this one.
Relentless tedious action and dull human characters
for all practical purposes this movie is really no more than one long chase scene that hits you over the head with a bunch of gun fire and car crashes with drab human characters ("Lincoln" and "Jordan") at the center of it all.
your pretty much killing time watching this.
A Logan's Run adaption Not a bad movie really. Nice sets and effects.....the camera was very shaky during action scenes, which was really annoying. I think the films borrows from previous films as far as plot goes...and it's hard to believe any of this would ever really happen, especially in the year 2014 or so. |
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