The Island
film — USA — 2005

6.0
Ewan McGreggor and Scarlet Johannsen. Isn`t that a perfect pair? No, it is not. You can`t pick up two great actors and make a great film without giving anything else. Ok, I liked the film at first. It starts off as a sci-fi story about some perfect world that seems to be lifted of Aldous Huxley but in the end it all ties up as a "Matrix meets xXx" kind of stuff. You have a lot of SFX, you have two Ewan McGreggors but you don`t have much more. As for the story - there was a global catastrophe, so they say, and only few people survived it. So they live under the ground and the only hope of every man and woman is going to the only unspoiled island. Yet Lincoln (McGreggor) discovers that there is no spoon, and that they are only clones for other people in the normal world that need spare parts for their eldering bodies. Sad, isn`t it? If it were original I`d probably like this thing. But here you get a Hollywood treatment of Huxley and Orwell, and Hollywood treatment of an anti-utopy sucks balls per se.
2005-08-24
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