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.
12 November 1964, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
22 May 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 April 1969, Venice, California, USA
12 August 1971, East Cleveland, Ohio, USA
22 July 1957, Burbank, California, USA
1 September 1976, Michigan, USA
2 April 1972, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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.
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.
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.
March 27, 2011
The Island is very much a Michael Bay film, with all of the stylistic touches that entails.
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.
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.
October 18, 2008
A stunning futuristic thriller about cloning and immortality, The Island combines spectacle with controversy.
December 04, 2014
A grim example of the worst impulses of Hollywood filmmaking in the 2000s given unfettered room to flourish.
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.
