The Island (2005)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 192
Fresh: 77 | Rotten: 115
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.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 24
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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Blockbuster action director Michael Bay delivers a striking look at a strange world of the future in this sci-fi action drama. Midway through the 21st century, Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) lives in a confined indoor community after ongoing abuse of the Earth has rendered most of the planet uninhabitable. One of the only places in the outside world still capable of sustaining life is an idyllic island where citizens are chosen to live through a lottery. Or at least that's what Lincoln and his
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Ewan McGregor
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Scarlett Johansson
Jordan Two Delta, Sarah... -
Sean Bean
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Steve Buscemi
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Djimon Hounsou
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Michael Clarke Duncan
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Katy Boyer
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Taylor Gilbert
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Mary Pat Gleason
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Tim Halligan
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Mark Christopher Lawrence
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Shelby Leverington
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Mitzi Martin
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Glenn Morshower
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Ethan Phillips
Jones Three Echo -
Shawnee Smith
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Kelvin Han Yee
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Chris Ellis
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Don Michael Paul
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Alex Carter
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Michael Canavan
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Kevin McCorkle
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Randy Oglesby
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Max Baker
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Don Creech
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Kenneth Hughes
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Richard V. Licata
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Whitney Dylan
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Brian Leckner
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Grant Garrison
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Ray Xifo
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Jimmy Smagula
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Svetlana Efremova
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Trent Ford
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Kevin Daniels
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Kirk Ward
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Rich Hutchman
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Marty Papazian
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Siobhan Flynn
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Eric Stonestreet
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Troy T. Blendell
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James McBride
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Wendy Haines
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Richard F. Whiten
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Gonzalo Menendez
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Brian Stepanek
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Ashley Yegan
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Kathleen Rose Perkins
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Gary Nickens
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Darren Mitchell
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Yvette Nicole Brown
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Olivia Tracey
Dept. of Operations Agn... -
Kevin Dorman
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Phil Abrams
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Ben Tolpin
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Noa Tishby
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Lew Dauber
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Eamon Behrens
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Phil Somerville
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Ryan Tasz
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James Granoff
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James V. Hart
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Craig Reynolds
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Sage Thomas
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Robert Sherman
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All Critics (195) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (77) | Rotten (115) | DVD (26)
What the clone lovers find is a new world -- it's 2019 -- of highway collisions, flying motorbikes, exploding buildings, bad acting and moral incoherence, very much like old Bay movies.
Top CriticSince Michael Bay never knows when enough is enough, every chase is restaged over and again and the narrative matrix is as simplistic as it is repetitive.
You have Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, these terrific actors reduced to saying, 'Go, go and duck' and hanging from buildings and all that stuff. And it just falls apart.
The Island is nothing so dull as a total failure. But it has enough surprises up its clingy white sleeve to make you wish it were better.
If you find yourself at The Island I have only three words of advice: Vote yourself off.
If The Island qualifies as cheese deluxe even by Michael Bay standards, it's because it's the only one in his lavishly decadent oeuvre that actually pretends to trade in ideas.
For the second half of the film, it's all chase and chase and chase some more, with little audience involvement in how it turns out.
The Island is very much a Michael Bay film, with all of the stylistic touches that entails.
A stunning futuristic thriller about cloning and immortality, The Island combines spectacle with controversy.
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.
Actually a fairly decent sci-fi thriller for its first half.
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.
... 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.
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.
Bay must have taken one look at the sci-fi script with its overtones of bleak Orwellian dystopia, and thought, "I wonder how many car crashes I can cram into this."
heart-breaking experience for all the fans of classic science fiction films
Like its slack-jawed clones, The Island is full of energy and incredibly pretty but burdened with only the minimum of smarts.
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.
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
As usual, Bay stages the action at a breakneck pace that's never frenetic enough to obscure his film's plot holes and logical lapses.
Si "robar" ideas de varias películas fuera un delito en Hollywood, los productores de La Isla estarían condenados a cadena perpetua.
The story is crap, but the sight of two hot-looking stars running around the screen in their tighty-whities is something of a relief.
What a Fun Ride, I think it's Bay's Best!
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This is a futuristic thriller about cloning, which is ironic given that The Island is a clone of half a dozen much better sci-fi movies.
It's extremely well acted by McGregor and Johansson, both of whom bring more to their roles than the script really deserves.
Audience Reviews for The Island
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- Tom Lincoln: Lots and lots of sex.
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- Lincoln Six Echo: What's God?
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- Jordan Two Delta: What's a court of law?
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- Tom Lincoln: Don't shoot him, he is my clone!
- Lincoln Six Echo: I'm Tom Lincoln!
- Tom Lincoln: What? He's lying, I'm Tom Lincoln!
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