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The 6th Day (2000)
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Reviews Counted:112
Fresh:45
Rotten:67
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: This offering from Arnold Schwarzenegger contains an intriguing, disturbing premise, but the film's execution is too routine and formulaic to make good use of it.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] strong action violence, brief strong language, and some sexuality
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Theatrical Release:Nov 17, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $33,813,823
Synopsis: In the not-too-distant future, when pets can be cloned after they die and "virtual girlfriends" can be installed and programmed, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works as a helicopter tour... In the not-too-distant future, when pets can be cloned after they die and "virtual girlfriends" can be installed and programmed, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works as a helicopter tour pilot. On his birthday he comes home to discover an identical version of himself--an illegal human clone--celebrating with his family and friends. The next thing he knows, a squad of killers is after him in order to hide the evidence of their cloning activities, funded by Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn), a powerful businessman who hopes to make billions from human cloning in collaboration with his medical expert, Dr. Griffin Weir (Robert Duvall). Of course, nobody believes Adam when he says there's an impostor living his life, and soon he has to take matters into his own hands while being chased by bad guys who won't stay dead thanks to the magic of cloning and Syncordings, instant memory downloads. THE 6TH DAY is an intriguing sci-fi thriller, combining science fact and fiction with everything viewers could want from a Schwarzenegger movie: terrific special effects and an action-packed story, with two Arnolds for twice the fun. [More]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Duvall, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Duvall, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport, Wendy Crewson, Michael Rooker, Sarah Wynter
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Screenwriter: Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley
Producer: Mike Medavoy
Studio: Columbia Pictures
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A fast-action, well-paced, clever sci-fi thriller that should go far toward erasing the bad aftertaste caused by last year's End Of Days.
Despite Arnold's shortcomings in the warmth category, The 6th Day is a solid adventure yarn, a good futuristic flick and a strong visual experience.
The 6th Day takes place in a future where quarterbacks earn $300 million a season, cars drive themselves, smoking is illegal and people still can't write a decent screenplay.
The few glints of promise in The 6th Day are lost in the blinding flash of Hollywood overproduction.
A well-crafted entertainment containing enough ideas to qualify it as science fiction and not just as a futurist thriller.
Spottiswoode and Schwarzenegger deliver a clever and colorful conspiratorial thriller with high-energy action scenes, car crashes a go-go, spectacular technology and big explosions, packaged with ferocious glee and spoofing humor.
Though the filmmakers deliver a 'man should not play God' message, the movie's unsettling brand of gallows humor makes it hard to take such pronouncements seriously.
Under the tight wraps provided by a veteran director and a generally clever script, [Arnold] has, in The 6th Day, his best picture in many years.
A clone itself, borrowing elements from Arnold's Total Recall plus a few ideas from Blade Runner and Face/Off, all of which are much better movies.
An intelligent and high energy science fiction tale that is a lot of good old fashioned fun.
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