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DVD The 6th Day (Special Edition)
For a movie about cloning, it's only appropriate that The 6th Day, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, is instilled with a strong sense of déjà vu, namely from Arnold's previous "Who am I?" outing, Total Recall. In that movie, Arnold is a normal Joe who discovers that his entire reality has been co-opted by an evil conspiracy, and has to take his life back by force. The same premise applies here for Roger Spottiswoode's clever if overlong sci-fi thriller--Arnold thinks he's a regular guy leading a regular life, until a twist of fate puts him on the lam from a vast conspiracy that's replaced him with a clone. While he's trying to evade the evil genetics corporation--and its trendy, deadly, clone-friendly assassins (who don't care how many times they're killed: there's more where that came from)--his double is snuggling at home with his wife and daughter. And new legislation outlaws the existence of human clones, so somebody's got to go. But who gets to be live and who gets to be the dead Memorex man?
Why does said genetics corporation want to clone people? How does the kindly scientist (Robert Duvall) fit in? What's the mystery behind the slick billionaire (Tony Goldwyn) who runs everything? It's all kind of irrelevant in the end, as long as it provides a chance for Arnold to indulge in some energetic mayhem and explosive action. What distinguishes The 6th Day is its sneaky, humorous--and chilling--look at the near future, taking everyday technological advances and turning them up just a couple notches, envisioning an era with cloned pets, virtual girlfriends, and computers running most everything, from the refrigerator to your car. Arnold is supposed to be a throwback to the "real" world--you can tell because he cherishes his vintage, navigation-system-free Cadillac--but as usual, he just brings his behemoth presence to the role and not much else. Still, he's a friendly enough hero, and he rolls with the punches (literally) all the way through to the end. Too bad the film overstays its welcome by about half an hour--a little shorter and it could have been a breezy sci-fi/action romp. With scene stealers Michael Rooker, Sarah Wynter, and Rod Rowland as the trio of cloned assassins who always come back--again and again. --Mark Englehart
I LOVE THIS MOVIE GREAT SPECIAL EFFECTS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
I HAVE BEEN A FAN OF ARNOLDS MOVIES FOR MANY YEARS.THIS SCI-FI THRILLER IS A LOT OF FUN GREAT SPECIAL EFFECTS WHILE THIS MOVIE IS SCI-FI AS OF 10/27/05 THE STORY OF CLONING AND REPLACING PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES AND MORE COULD COME TRUE TOMORROW IF NOT IN FACT THIS MOVIE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED .
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One hardly knows whether laugh or weep. This "thing" is so terrible on every level that I can hardly formulate a comment. But I'll try. Horrible script, horrible casting, horrible direction, horrible production, shall I go on? Arnold looks like a vain 70 year old lady...thanks for going in to the political arena where people appreciate tasteless behavior, the fakery and falseness of material infused semi-conscious self indulgence and prositutionary greed based decision making....Robert D......shame on you! Any of you who think this awful "product" has any redeeming qualities whatsoever, should drop their remote and seek help before it's too late. Thanks for your indulgence.
Starts promisingly and then turns into a wreck.
Cloning is not a particularly new theme for science-fiction, but it is a theme that hasn't been explored very fully. Most science-fiction uses it as a weak plot device (Alien: Resurrection) or just kind of throws it into the story as a sidenote (Judge Dredd). And so far, there hasn't really been a good movie---science-fiction or otherwise---that deals with cloning on a deep level.
"The 6th Day" starts out great. Even after the first car chase, the movie still fools you into thinking it might actually do something with cloning other than degenerate into a cheap action movie with bad acting. Even the presence of Arnie isn't enough to detract you; the movie provides some innovative uses of cloning to create a story and constructs a believable world for the future.
The synchording (spelling?) devices that are introduced sufficiently explain how a clone could have the memories of its source. This is great---most movies just assume that cloning means you take a strand of DNA, pop it in a machine, and come out with an exact replica of whoever donated the DNA. "The 6th Day" initially respects our intelligence by providing us with a good, albeit fictional and far-fetched, system by which clones can be created.
And when the Evil Corporation Cliche comes around and we see how cloning functions as a service it provides, the whole affair is intriguing. It raises some interesting philosophical questions and moral dilemmas. Should cloning be banned or regulated? How could cloning affect the economy, or politics? What rights should a clone have?
But then we hit the forty minute mark in the movie, and the screenwriters go, "Ha!" It was a trick. Duh---the movie stars Arnold friggin' Schwarzenegger! Of course it's not going to be intellectually deep or satisfying.
So then the movie just turns into an all-out action movie, with a lot of lame one-liners and boring shoot-outs and chases. The Evil Corporation just becomes more cliched and Arnie just seems to get dumber.
It's all very boring up until the very end of the movie. Then, Arnie finally meets Evil CEO Cliche, and there's a scene which is actually very engaging. Unfortunately, it's clumsily handled and comes off as more annoying than anything else.
You see, during this scene, Arnie demands an explanation from the Evil CEO about why he is making clones to begin with. And what happens? The Evil CEO delivers a speech that is logical, well-explained, well-rationalized, and appealing. He actually gives a lot of reasons why cloning is a pretty useful thing and why we should be able to do it.
In fact, that's what his character is like all throughout the movie; anytime somebody expresses doubt about cloning, he'll explain a reason why we should embrace it. "The world was starving until we cloned a bunch of fish, and now everyone can eat." Or, "We can now clone organs for surgery instead of waiting for healthy people to die." Or, "We can step around death and we don't have to lose important leaders." Good arguments. If the Evil CEO didn't spend the rest of the time doing stereotypical Evil CEO things (like murder) then he would be the most likeable character in the whole movie.
So, what's Arnie's response to the actually-pretty-convincing speech? "What about God?" he says. And then he proceeds to blow up everything and the movie ends.
It's pretty lame. It's not that theological implications aren't important to an issue like cloning, it's just that you can't simplify a complicated moral issue like this.
In the end, "The 6th Day" tried to balance a brainy script with Arnie-fueled action, and it didn't work. So instead of trying to make a movie that actually explored all of the ramifications and possible uses or misuses of cloning, they just made a subpar adventure.
I give it two stars for at least trying. Sadly, this is still the best movie about cloning out there.
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