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The Island (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 180 Fresh: 72  Rotten:108 Average Rating: 5.4/10
 
Consensus: A clone of THX 1183, Coma, and Logan's Run, The Island is another loud and bombastic Michael Bay movie where explosions and chases matter more than characters, dialogue, or plot.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins

Synopsis: Michael Bay ("Armageddon," "Pearl Harbor") directs the futuristic action thriller "The Island," starring Ewan McGregor ("Star Wars: Episodes I, II & III," "Moulin Rouge!") and Scarlett Johansson ("Lost in Translation," "Girl With a Pearl Earring"). Lincoln Six-Echo (McGregor) is... Michael Bay ("Armageddon," "Pearl Harbor") directs the futuristic action thriller "The Island," starring Ewan McGregor ("Star Wars: Episodes I, II & III," "Moulin Rouge!") and Scarlett Johansson ("Lost in Translation," "Girl With a Pearl Earring"). Lincoln Six-Echo (McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island"—reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet—until he makes a terrible discovery that everything about his existence is a lie…and that he is actually more valuable dead than alive. Together with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson), Lincoln makes a daring escape to the outside world he's never known. Now, with the forces of the institute that once housed them relentlessly hunting them down, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a desperate race for their lives. Rounding out the main cast of "The Island" are Oscar® nominee Djimon Hounsou ("In America," "Gladiator") as the leader of the security team pursuing Lincoln and Jordan; Sean Bean ("National Treasure," "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy) as the head of the Institute; Steve Buscemi ("Ghost World," "Armageddon") as a man who befriends Lincoln despite working for the institute; and Oscar® nominee Michael Clarke Duncan ("The Green Mile," "Armageddon") as another resident who is elated and envied when he is selected to go to "The Island." Michael Bay directed "The Island" from a screenplay by Caspian Tredwell-Owen and Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, based on a story by Tredwell-Owen. Walter F. Parkes, Michael Bay and Ian Bryce produced the film, with Laurie MacDonald serving as executive producer. "The Island" is a co-production of DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, with DreamWorks distributing the film domestically and Warner Bros. handling the international release. -- © Dreamworks [More]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi

Director: Michael Bay
Screenwriter: Robert Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Story: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Producer: Walter F. Parkes, Michael Bay, Ian Bryce, Laurie MacDonald

DVD Info

Release:

Oct 1, 2006

[DVD Details]

UMD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
  • Dual Side - Single Layer

Audio:

  • Stereo 2.0 - English
  • Stereo 2.0 - French
  • Subtitles - English (SDH)
  • Subtitles - French
  • Subtitles - Spanish

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David Edwards
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It’s extremely well acted by McGregor and Johansson, both of whom bring more to their roles than the script really deserves.

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08/13/05
Matthew Turner
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[T]here's plenty to enjoy in the more intimate, character-based moments, if you can cope with the relentlessly overblown action that surrounds them.

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08/09/05
Nev Pierce
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Unapologetically action-oriented but it has a passionate subtext too - this Michael Bay's take on every sci-fi movie ever made.

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08/07/05
Joe Utichi
FilmFocus
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2.5/5

An intelligent, provocative premise wrapped in a bone-chillingly stupid action movie.

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07/28/05
Rich Cline
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Garth Franklin
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The pace of this roller coaster ride becomes too furious to remember that it all started out as an adventure addressing some pertinent ethical issues about the pitfalls of stem cell research, cloning, and bio-genetics.

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11/12/07
Kam Williams
Princeton Town Topics
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Actually a fairly decent sci-fi thriller for its first half.

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09/24/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
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It seems to assume that its audience is made of idiots, constantly reminding us of the simple plot details and having characters define things for each other.

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09/12/07
Jeffrey Overstreet
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Trevor Johnston
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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
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2.0/4.0

... a darker, R-rated sci-fi dramatic cut of The Island exists somewhere... buried right next to the only copy of the Schwarzenegger-free print of The 6th Day.

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12/30/06
Kevin A. Ranson
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The film remains a patchwork of clichés -- evil corporations, evil Frankenstein-like scientists, and so forth -- which is the one kind of cloning that Hollywood does accept.

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09/25/06
Peter T. Chattaway
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05/12/06
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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heart-breaking experience for all the fans of classic science fiction films

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02/11/06
Dragan Antulov
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12/09/05
JoBlo
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If only some of that product placement coin was spent on working on a few more drafts of the screenplay, The Island could have been a much better film.

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12/06/05
Michael Ferraro
Film Threat
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3/4

Pone el dedo en la llaga respecto a uno de los temas más controvertidos de la ciencia actual y los grupos religiosos más importantes: la actitud del hombre de jugar a ser Dios

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11/26/05
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola
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