The Island (2005)

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Opened up my mind. Has lots of twist and turns! Deff should watch !

This movie is ridiculous. While the theme has merit and the acting is pretty good. The editor and the special effects man ruined it. The camera man should not be blamed because of the ditor. Who ever edited this movie and put the stupid small cuts one after another should never work again. Do you really want to see the quick small advertisement that flashes . We don't like that advertisement and we hate it in movies. I am not sure if it was the the director, editor or sponsor who made it not a B movie but a C movie. It was not the actors nor the script. Something went wrong with the video presentation. What could have been a good movie failed.

Apparently this movie came out 10 years ago, but I had no knowledge of it until today. I'm normally not a big fan of these high budget mainstream action flicks, however this movie has an original entertaining premise, that had me enthralled. I just looked this up on IMDb and, while it's ranked pretty decent, I'm surprised this didn't do very well in the theater. Meanwhile a complete piece of crap like Armageddon can do 200,000,000. I guess I'll never figure it out. I noticed other reviewers saying that this felt like a 2 part movie, but I didn't think anything of it until I saw some reviews saying that. The first half went pretty fast for me, even though it's the slower portion of the movie. It may just be me, but I was more entertained during the non action sequences, but they have some really big budget action sequences going on. I acting was top notch all around. I enjoyed the Steve Buscemi character a lot (relatively small role, but was a major plot driver in the movie). Anyways, if you're someone who is prone to like action movies, I don't know how you pass this one up and who knows you may still enjoy otherwise. Maybe it helps if you find the premise intriguing, which I definitely did.

Is the first thing that comes to my mind when i think about The Island, because this movie is so amazing that i can't get together that it's from the same guy who made Bad Boys and Transformers...Which is a big compliment, because this is, without a doubt, his best film, but sadly also the reason he now does nothing else then Transformers, because this movie didn't made it all that well at the box-office....but Toys do...The story is really interesting and works fairly well, it's a kinda mix out of The 6th Day and Logan's Run (which i both also enjoy).The special effects are so great that my mom thought this movie was new and wondered why it's on live-TV already...The action is also great as always (mostly the Freeway chase scene) BUT, like the story, also untypical for a Bay-flick, is that the main Protagonist never use guns or anything to directly kill anyone, because that would go against their characters...which is mind blowing if you think about it...Also the actors are all very good, especially Ewan McGregor (who also played Dr. Sam Foster in "Stay" and Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Revenge of the Sith" in the same year!) and Scarlett Johansson who are incredibly believable as two clones who aren't even teenagers if you think about it.A weakness of the movie is the fast pacing which let's no room for real dramatic tension, many scenes wrap up very quickly and the characters often have no chance to properly react to the strange things which are going on around them...But apart from this, it's a very entertaining, thought provoking, sci-fi-actioner, and Michael Bays best effort...