The Island

2.67
    The Island
    2005

    Synopsis

    In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.

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    Cast

    • Ewan McGregorLincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
    • Scarlett JohanssonJordan Two Delta / Sarah Jordan
    • Djimon HounsouAlbert Laurent
    • Sean BeanDr. Bernard Merrick
    • Steve BuscemiJames 'Mac' McCord
    • Michael Clarke DuncanStarkweather Two Delta / Jamal Starkweather
    • Ethan PhillipsJones Three Echo
    • Brian StepanekGandu Three Echo
    • Noa TishbyCommunity Announcer
    • Siobhan FlynnLima One Alpha

    Recommendations

    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Starts off an aggressively derivative sci-fi thriller, then morphs into an above-average chase melodrama.
    • 63

      ReelViews

      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.
    • 60

      Variety

      Frenetic actioner about refugees from a genetic cloning plant starts off intriguingly, burns up its ideas in the first hour and pads out the rest with joltingly repetitive action sequences.
    • 60

      Village Voice

      This is pure essence of Bay--it's big, it's loud, it has no context, and if you show up tanked, I'm sure it's really quite poetic.
    • 50

      Time

      For all the menace of its techno-prattle, its implicit boosts for humanism and its swell production design, the picture is finally a bore. Sci-fi was more powerful when its special effects were cheap and crude, its ideas simple but potently stated.
    • 50

      Entertainment Weekly

      The Island begins with a whimper of interest as a cool-hued, cautionary exploration of the ethics of cloning, and ends, in a hail of product placement, with a dumb bang.
    • 50

      Dallas Observer

      As usual, Hollywood hitmeister Bay is more interested in blowing stuff up than in addressing deep questions like the morality of science and the false myths of civilization, and these explosions go on for over two hours.
    • 50

      L.A. Weekly

      Nary an original idea abounds in The Island.

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