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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
Although there are some slight flaws to the movie, and though it does follow other known films like Logan's Run and Coma, it still stands on its own. The bottom line is, what is the final product of cloning? In a world where life is cheapened by abortion, which nothing more than murder behind closed doors, this goes a step beyond that. It asks the question of whom do men think is god when they deny the Existence of the true God who created us and told us not to kill each other because we are made in His image. Men worship themselves and their own abilities, they worship their own science!
I've heard in other places that their are racial overtones to the movie, I don't see it. Yes, there is a black guy that helps them up after being saved in an unlikely that says, "Jesus must love you! I KNOW Jesus must love you!" If you are squamish about religious overtones, this and one other instance are the only references to God or Jesus, the other was where the head administrator is asked about playing God. This is none-the-less an action movie, and emotionally moving regarding freeing people from a life locked up with a future of being harvested and killed.
As for the product placement, there were two that I really noticed, one was for a certain water company and the other a certain "X" product. I think the "X" product was sort of funny, but then what are they doing advertizing to those locked up in a facility with no means of income. The water one makes some sense, if the product is brought in from the outside, I think it does bring some realism to the movie, otherwise the movie is just a non-descript fruture place and future time. It just goes to show that even in the future, comercialism still lingers. : P
Imaginative and Wildly Creative
this film is well worth the rental. the story is intense, intelligent, and exciting. there are several twists ands turns just as you think you have the whole thing figured out. this is great movie if you're looking for something different.
Typical Action-Packed Michael Bay Film
The Island starring Ewan McGreggor and Scarlett Johanson is a very well thought out movie, and really exeeds expectations, at least in my book. It didn't do to well in the box office, but that's because, like a lot of movies now a days, marketed the movie for something it's not. Anyway, this is like anything you'd expect from Michael Bay, but unlike The Rock, Armaggeddon, Bad Boys and all his movies, it does have a very good plot in my opinion. Here's the story:
In a very odd isolated world, lives a bunch of people who live in very uncolorfull world. They are told that they are survivors from an apocalypse. But, what they all wait for is their chance to go to the Island, the only land left on earth, and they have a poll every week to choose someone to go. What they don't know is that they're actually clones of wealthy people, and when they are called to the island, the real person who owns the clone is injured, and they use the clones body parts or insides that the person has lost. When Licoln Six Echo sees a butterfly inside the prison-type-holdment, he gets curious, as all living things are supposed to be dead. He one day, ventures out into the real world, only to find danger and the truth.
The first half of the movie is waaaaaaay different then the second half. It's like someone else directed the first half, then Michael Bay took over for all the action sequences. But, ti's still a very good movie. The humor is very straight foward and doesn't use any slick jokes, just very clear jokes. The action can at times be over the top, but what do you expect. All these people who say that it was too over the top or stupid, have you ever seen any of Michael Bay's other work, because every movie he's done has been over the top. Anyway, I strongly recommend it for action fans.
Despite super effects, a huge budget, and the cinematic pedigree of alien-happy Steven Spielberg, this take on H.G. Wells's novel is basically a horror film packaged as a sci-fi thrill ride. Instead of a mad slasher, however, Spielberg (along with writers Josh Friedman & David Koepp) utilizes aliens hell-bent on quickly destroying humanity, and the terrifying results that prey upon adult fears, especially in the post-9/11 world. The realistic results could be a new genre, the grim popcorn thriller; often you feel like you're watching Schindler's List more than Spielberg's other thrill-machine movies (Jaws, Jurassic Park). The film centers on Ray Ferrier, a divorced father (Tom Cruise, oh so comfortable) who witnesses one giant craft destroy his New Jersey town and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Tom Cruise - Dakota Fanning - Tim Robbins Director(s): Steven Spielberg DVD Release Date: 22 November 2005
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Released amidst rumors of romance between costars Angelina Jolie and soon-to-be-divorced Brad Pitt, Mr. and Mrs. Smith offers automatic weapons and high explosives as the cure for marital boredom. The premise of this exhausting action-comedy (no relation to the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock comedy starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery) is that the unhappily married Smiths (Pitt and Jolie) will improve their relationship once they discover their mutually-hidden identities as world-class assassins, but things get complicated when their secret-agency bosses order them to rub each other out. There's plenty of amusing banter in the otherwise disposable screenplay by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, Fantastic Four), and director Doug Liman (The Bourne... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Doug Liman DVD Release Date: Released the 29 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Fantastic Four is a light-hearted and funny take on Marvel Comics' first family of superherodom. It begins when down-on-his-luck genius Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd, Horatio Hornblower) has to enlist the financial and intellectual help of former schoolmate and rival Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon, Nip/Tuck) in order to pursue outer-space research involving human DNA. Also on the trip are Reed's best friend, Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis, The Shield); his former lover, Sue Storm (Jessica Alba, Dark Angel, Sin City), who's now Doom's employee and love interest; and her hotshot-pilot brother, Johnny Storm (Chris Evans, Cellular). Things don't go as planned, of course, and the quartet becomes blessed--or is it cursed?--with superhuman powers:... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ioan Gruffudd - Jessica Alba - Chris Evans - Michael Chiklis - Hamish Linklater Director(s): Tim Story DVD Release Date: 06 December 2005
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Batman Begins discards the previous four films in the series and recasts the Caped Crusader as a fearsome avenging angel. That's good news, because the series, which had gotten off to a rousing start under Tim Burton, had gradually dissolved into self-parody by 1997's Batman & Robin. As the title implies, Batman Begins tells the story anew, when Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) flees Western civilization following the murder of his parents. He is taken in by a mysterious instructor named Ducard (Liam Neeson in another mentor role) and urged to become a ninja in the League of Shadows, but he instead returns to his native Gotham City resolved to end the mob rule that is strangling it. But are there forces even more sinister at hand?
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Featuring the best special effects that money can buy and a screenplay that any six-year-old could follow, Stealth is a pure action thriller that starts fast and never slows down. Moving up from The Fast and the Furious and xXx, director Rob Cohen proves himself as a master of popcorn entertainment for teenagers, turning this derivative military sci-fi action thriller into a dazzling showcase for impressive aerial action sequences, featuring digital effects and highly detailed model work (by James Cameron's Digital Domain effects company, among others) that are so realistic you could swear the movie's high-tech aircraft are absolutely real. The plot serves the effects (it should be the other way around), and it's a cheesy hybrid of Top Gun, The Right... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Josh Lucas - Jessica Biel - Jamie Foxx Director(s): Rob Cohen DVD Release Date: 15 November 2005
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