ourchair
Well-Known Member
Just caught The Island this evening, here's a quickshot review:
At first glance, The Island seems to be just another Big Loud Stupid Michael Bay Film.
One of the good things is that Bay drops the cheesy melodrama that hampered Armageddon and forgoes the machismo that drove The Rock and focuses entirely on telling his story instead of pretending that he can craft something with show stopping emotional resonance.
Some critics will probably slam this film because it covers a lot of sci fi tropes --- the value of human life, memories and truth, social and ethical implications of cloning etc --- all of which have been explored better in more ambitious films like Blade Runner and Total Recall, but that's hardly the point.
What Bay does is use the ostensible dramatic weight of a science fiction premise to propel a high-tech action thriller. One that begins with the slow and eerie feel of a suspense mystery and then subsequently launches rapid-fire adrenaline. Fortunately, both parts work to spectacular results.
I give this film 8/10: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon:
At first glance, The Island seems to be just another Big Loud Stupid Michael Bay Film.
One of the good things is that Bay drops the cheesy melodrama that hampered Armageddon and forgoes the machismo that drove The Rock and focuses entirely on telling his story instead of pretending that he can craft something with show stopping emotional resonance.
Some critics will probably slam this film because it covers a lot of sci fi tropes --- the value of human life, memories and truth, social and ethical implications of cloning etc --- all of which have been explored better in more ambitious films like Blade Runner and Total Recall, but that's hardly the point.
What Bay does is use the ostensible dramatic weight of a science fiction premise to propel a high-tech action thriller. One that begins with the slow and eerie feel of a suspense mystery and then subsequently launches rapid-fire adrenaline. Fortunately, both parts work to spectacular results.
I give this film 8/10: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon: :rockon:
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