The Island (2005)
An ordinary young man who like dozens of men work in a secret colony, where they are treated as slaves and they are not allowed to get away from it without permission, as each time, they make a lottery, as the winner will be rewarded to leave the colony and go to live in the Jordan to Delta, but when he goes there, everything changes.
24 April 1959, Dallas, Texas, USA
2 January 1967, Pasadena, California, USA
22 May 1977, Ramat-Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
1 September 1976, Michigan, USA
24 October 1974, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
21 October 1948, Portland, Oregon, USA
October 3, 1981 in West Covina, California, USA
15 January 1979, Akron, Ohio, USA
15 January 1976, Lyndhurst, New Jersey, USA
30 August 1964, Cuba
22 November 1984, New York City, New York, USA
4 April 1979, Michigan, USA
17 April 1963, Newport Beach, California, USA
12 August 1971, East Cleveland, Ohio, USA
10 December 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 June 1969, Fresno, California, USA
8 November 1971, Miami, Florida, USA
23 November 1948, Brooklyn, New York, USA
March 27, 2011
The Island is very much a Michael Bay film, with all of the stylistic touches that entails.
July 28, 2005
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 22, 2005
If you find yourself at The Island I have only three words of advice: Vote yourself off.
April 29, 2009
Only in a Bay movie can we sit for two hours watching super models trying to survive a world of supermodels and fast cars.
December 04, 2014
A grim example of the worst impulses of Hollywood filmmaking in the 2000s given unfettered room to flourish.
September 26, 2005
As usual, Bay stages the action at a breakneck pace that's never frenetic enough to obscure his film's plot holes and logical lapses.
July 28, 2005
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.
June 24, 2011
For the second half of the film, it's all chase and chase and chase some more, with little audience involvement in how it turns out.
November 12, 2007
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.
July 22, 2005
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.
October 18, 2008
A stunning futuristic thriller about cloning and immortality, The Island combines spectacle with controversy.
July 25, 2005
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.
