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Jul 21, 2005 · The first half of Michael Bay's new film is a spare, creepy science fiction parable, and then it shifts into a high-tech action picture. Both halves work. Whether they work together is a good question.
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Jul 22, 2005 · 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.
- (200)
- Michael Bay
- PG-13
- Ewan Mcgregor
Jul 22, 2005 · The Island: Directed by Michael Bay. With Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean. A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.
- (328K)
- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Michael Bay
- 2005-07-22
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, from a story by Tredwell-Owen. It stars Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Steve Buscemi.
Aug 1, 2005 · Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson go on the run in Michael Bay's explosive, overlong sci-fi actioner.
"The Island" is an original, intriguing and scary view of science, ethic and society in a near future. Using elements of "Logan's Run", "Matrix", "Gattaca" and "The Thirteenth Floor", among other sci-fi movies, and non-stop action, it is a surprisingly great film.
A sci-fi parable about human cloning, The Island is the first Bay film in which ideas actually sort of matter. Even better, its ideas regarding the essential conflicts between human cloning and human dignity are more or less in the right direction.
