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Company
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DreamWorks SKG
Genre
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Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Runtime
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136 min
Awards
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3 nominations
Overwiew :Lincoln Six-Echo and Jordan Two-Delta are among the hundreds of residents of a contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, everything about their day-to-day lives is monitored, seemingly for their own good. The only way out--and the hope they all share--is to be chosen to go to The Island, reportedly the last uncontaminated spot in the world following an ecological disaster that took the lives of everyone on the planet except them. Recently plagued by unexplained nightmares, Lincoln is restless and increasingly questioning of the restrictions placed on his life. But he is unprepared for the truth when his growing curiosity leads to the terrible discovery that everything about his existence is a lie, that The Island is a cruel hoax and that he, Jordan and everyone they know are actually more valuable dead than alive. With time running out, Lincoln and Jordan make a daring escape to the outside world they've never known. Once they are away from the prying eyes of the institute, the innocent friendship the two shared begins to deepen into something more. But with the forces of the institute relentlessly hunting them down, Lincoln and Jordan have one overriding mission: to live.
Starring :Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ethan Phillips, Brian Stepanek, Noa Tishby, Shawnee Smith, Siobhan Flynn, Troy T. Blendell, Jamie McBride, Kevin McCorkle, Gary Nickens, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Richard F. Whiten, Max Baker, Phil Abrams, Svetlana Efremova, Katy Boyer, Randy Oglesby, Yvette Nicole Brown, Taylor Gilbert, Wendy Haines, Tim Halligan, Glenn Morshower, Michael Canavan, Jimmy Smagula, Ben Tolpin, Robert Sherman, Richard Hutchman, Gonzalo Menendez, Olivia Tracey, Ray Xifo, Mary Pat Gleason, Ashley Yegan, Whitney Dylan, Mitzi Martin, Lewis Dauber, Shelby Leverington, Richard Licata, Eamon Behrens, Alex Carter, Kevin Daniels, Grant Garrison, Kenneth Hughes, Brian Leckner, Dakota Mitchell, Martin Papazian, Phil Somerville, Ryan Tasz, Kirk Ward, Kelvin Han Yee, Chris Ellis, Don Michael Paul, Eric Stonestreet, James Granoff, James Hart, Craig Reynolds, Trent Ford, Sage Thomas, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Brian Stepanek, Noa Tishby, Siobhan Flynn, Troy Blendell, Jamie McBride, Kevin McCorkle, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Richard Whiten, Phil Abrams, Tim Halligan
Writers :
Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Critic Reviews
Grade
USA Today - Claudia Puig : Possessing no new ideas, it reworks and borrows from such films as Blade Runner, The Matrix and Logan's Run. more...
C
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold : ...it does its job without insulting our intelligence or unpleasantly jangling our nerves... more...
B-
San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle : ...on its own terms, The Island is just fine. more...
B
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers : I've elevated the rating by half a star because Scarlett Johansson is a luminous camera subject that even Bay can't sully... more...
C-
ReelViews - James Berardinelli : ...there's enough fun to be had that it's almost possible to ignore the stupidity of the story and the cavity that replaces character development. more...
B-
New York Times - A.O. Scott : Michael Bay's lavish, exhaustingly kinetic film is smarter than you might expect, and at the same time dumber than it could be. more...
B-
New York Post - Kyle Smith : Some of the plot links are spongy, but the central idea plays out with much wit. more...
B
Hollywood Reporter - Kirk Honeycutt : Reasonably diverting... more...
B-
filmcritic.com - Christopher Null : ...while The Island isn't exactly a great film, the case for (Scarlett) Johansson as action starlet has been made, handily. more...
B-
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum : ... ends, in a hail of product placement, with a dumb bang. more...
C
E! Online - Spare yourself--and your clone for that matter--from taking a trip to The Island. : http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Movies/Reviews/0,1052,88901,00.html more...
Chicago Tribune - Allison Benedikt : ...as fond as I am of escapist junk, and as much as there is to admire in The Island, in the end it's just a big, loud mess. more...
C
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert : ...while the climax satisfies the requirements of the second half of the story, it leaves a few questions unanswered. more...
Roger Ebert - (3 stars) Ash's films are unpolished but involving and untamed. : http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1999/12/121003.html more...
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