The Island
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Movie Reviews of The Island
Movie Review: Action packed movie with a good story.
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow. This is another great movie people should of watched instead of listening to the Critics. If You Like Transformers or Bad Boy II This is the movie for you.Movie Review: Congratulations You're Going To The Island
Summary: 5 Stars
Michael Bay's action packed sci-fi vehicle is sure worth every penny. Even though there are some similarities between this and the 6th day and many other science fiction movies of the past it still manages to bring in something new to the genre. The movie begins in a facility where supposedly the last humans are living, of course this is a lie, and they are in fact clones of rich industrialist who want either to live longer or need a new organ to live on. The interesting thing is that the clones don't know they are clones, and the real copies don't know there are clones of them living in a military bunker. without giving any more details this movie is worth buying, the action is very reminiscent to other Michael Bay's movies (Bad Boys II, Transformers) in my opinion this is probably bay's 2nd best movie (the first being transformers) if you liked the 6th day or enjoy high adrenaline action sequences with an interesting and intelligent plot then this movie is for you
MY PERSONAL RATING: 4 ? OUT OF 5
Movie Review: No bad...
Summary: 3 Stars
Not a bad movie... I would not pay more than $10.00 for it but not a bad way to spend 90 minutes or so.Movie Review: People will do anything to survive (4.5 stars)
Summary: 4 Stars
Lincoln Six-Echo leads a very organized life. His sleep is monitored. His urine is checked so his diet can be adjusted. Even his clothing is put up in his cabinet in an orderly utilitarian fashion.
So, why does Six-Echo want to win the lottery and go to the island? He's been told all his life that this is the place where the human race will continue and survive.
And that's not quite a lie. Lincoln Six-Echo and the others like him are living to continue the human race. They're 'property' (aka clones), bought and paid for by the richest and wealthiest as an insurance policy against damage to their own persons.
Initially, clients buying into the insurance were told that their clones would be kept in a persistent vegetative state; however, by the E generation, the scientists realized they needed to give the donors memory and awareness.
And that's where the problem comes in. Lincoln Six-Echo is dreaming of boats, learning Latin phrases when his lessons are deliberately kept at only a barely functional level. He's gaining awareness--and memory that's not his.
When Lincoln Six-Echo stumbles across the truth, he stops his best friend Jordan Two-Delta from going to the island and they both escape into the real world. Their challenge is to find their sponsors and convince them to help them.
But, the corporation that developed them will do anything to keep their business and keep the secret of the clones quiet. That includes hiring a crack team of Ex-Special Forces agents to hunt down and kill the escapees.
Albert Laurent (Djimon Hounsou) leads the squad. He puts the two ill-prepared clones through their paces.
"The Island" is fast-paced and very well done. Imagery is beautifully filmed. I honestly wish I had not missed this film on the big screen. One of the best futuristic chase scenes, including cars, trucks, and helos is here.
I was especially impressed with Ewan McGregor's performance as both Lincoln Six-Echo and Tom Lincoln. Very subtle moves convey the differences between the original and the copy.
Overall, "The Island" is well worth the time to watch. My half-star deduction is for a somewhat slow start.
Movie Review: No Film Is An Island
Summary: 3 Stars
The old saying goes, "Nowadays even the future ain't what it used to be." Indeed, as imagined by director Michael Bay in The Island, it's downright ghoulish. Fans of sci-fi thrillers will notice many influences - The Matrix and Bladerunner are just two. It has their visual style, brilliant art direction, and dazzling special effects. Where it differs is the level of commitment to concept. In Matrix and Bladerunner you have interesting philosophical puzzles examined with precision, in the Island an interesting moral puzzle is introduced and then dropped the way a child with ADD might drop a video game to spend a little while grinding marbles in the garbage disposal.
If you've ever wondered about the ethical consequences of using stem cells, and speculated about the inevitable impact of this practice on society, this movie was supposed to be for you, but isn't. For that matter, if you've ever thought about the difference between "important people" and "disposable people" - i.e., rich Americans vs. third world teenage kids working in slave labor conditions, meticulously crafting day-glow costumes for "Hip-Hop Barbie" - this movie could have been for you had it been written and directed by someone else. As it stands, if you like snazzy visuals, bodacious chase scenes, and plot holes large enough for an armored car flipping end over end to pass through, sloppily wrapped in a pseudo-futuristic snack pack, this movie IS for you.
All films are written in 3 acts; usually viewers don't notice the transitions. Here it looks like the three acts were shot on different sets in different countries, written by different people, and directed by different people. Act 1 is classic high sci-fi, visually convincing and intriguing. Something is rotten in Denmark, we don't know what it is but it's cool, and we want to find out. Act 2 is a chase scene on steroids. Oddly, in the future some things are very different while some things haven't changed at all. (Sadly, the Cadillac logo is the same, puzzling, since it looked old fashioned 50 years ago.) In Act 3 many things blow up, the film even attempts a brief reconciliation with its basic premise. Bay's chutzpah is such that he briefly reminds us of WWII death camps. Had the film addressed its theme seriously, this might have been forgivable.
If The Island has any enduring message at all it is this - whether we live underground in a controlled environment out of time, or above ground in a semi-futuristic kluge - one thing will always be constant - Steve Buscemi. His brief appearance, (one assumes he was making a cameo in another mediocre movie nearby when this was being shot), is like everything else you've ever seen him do. Even the bar he haunts and the bikers he drinks with are present day. But, can we be sure it's him? Is it even possible for Buscemi to be in so many movies at once? Perhaps he was a prototype in the Echo series. Now that is scary.