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In 2019 a mercenary pursues two clones who escaped from a research facility after learning their true fate of that they are kept under wraps to provide needed organs when the person who supplied their DNA falls ill.
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.
July 28, 2005
Urban Cinefile
A stunning futuristic thriller about cloning and immortality, The Island combines spectacle with controversy.
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 28, 2005
Cinema Crazed
Only in a Bay movie can we sit for two hours watching super models trying to survive a world of supermodels and fast cars.
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.
July 25, 2005
Salon.com
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.
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.