The Island (2005)
Driving by his deep will of going to Jordan to Delta, in order to get rid of his daily life routine, Lincoln Six Zero, a courageous man, who like dozens of men work in a colony, where they work as slaves, wins the lottery and goes there, to be shocked by revealing the truth of that organization.
15 January 1979, Akron, Ohio, USA
8 February 1955, Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
4 April 1979, Michigan, USA
2 April 1972, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
22 May 1977, Ramat-Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
18 April 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
December 04, 2014
A grim example of the worst impulses of Hollywood filmmaking in the 2000s given unfettered room to flourish.
March 27, 2011
The Island is very much a Michael Bay film, with all of the stylistic touches that entails.
July 28, 2005
Since 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.
October 18, 2008
A stunning futuristic thriller about cloning and immortality, The Island combines spectacle with controversy.
July 22, 2005
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.
July 28, 2005
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.
July 22, 2005
If you find yourself at The Island I have only three words of advice: Vote yourself off.
July 25, 2005
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.
June 24, 2011
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.
November 12, 2007
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.
September 26, 2005
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.
April 29, 2009
Only in a Bay movie can we sit for two hours watching super models trying to survive a world of supermodels and fast cars.
