Sunday 15 October 2006

The Island (2005)

Michael Bay's first directorial outing without producer Jerry Bruckheimer is as much a flashy production as one has come to expect from the pair of them -- but this one is all flash, without much substance.  We meet our main protagonists Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson when they are living in a controlled environment, the remnants -- we are led to believe -- of a society devastated by war.  The only hope these people have is to someday go to The Island where a better life awaits them.  McGregor starts to question the status quo and when Johansson's name is drawn, he fears the worst and they escape to a very real outside world of which they knew nothing.  Turns out they are all clones, grown for their spare parts by their "sponsors" who hope to live forever.  So they start the search for their counterparts and McGregor meets the real McGregor (who obviously looks exactly the same but who has a stronger Scots accent).  The latter is horrified and says, "People who eat burgers don't want to meet the cow".  Quite!  Of course our heroes and all the other doomed clones revolt and live happily ever after.  If you can believe that, you can believe anything, but it is probably not worth thinking about -- just more disposable so-called entertainment.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

OKAY...I JUST WATCHED THIS YESTERDAY TOO....LOL...I THOUGHT THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER MOVIE...SOMETHING WAS JUST LACKING FOR ME..BUT YET THE PLOT KEEP ME WATCHING..THE IDEA THAT SOMETHING COULD HAPPEN LIKE THAT....IT HAD SOME GOOD ACTING AND SOME BAD ACTING...SOME THINGS THAT SEEMED COULD BE DONE DIFFERENTLY AND THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD A WINNER!!! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND...TERRYANN