The Island (2005)

Directed by

Michael Bay

Genre

action film, science fiction film, biopunk, post-apocalyptic film, speculative fiction film, dystopian film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 5,922 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people live in a sealed compound believing the outside world is poisoned. They are actually clones kept alive to provide organs and babies for wealthy clients. Two of them discover the truth and try to escape.

fast-pacedtensesuspensefuladrenaline-fueleddystopianexplosivevisceral

What happens

The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, from a story by Tredwell-Owen. It stars Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Steve Buscemi. The film is about two human clones, Lincoln Six Echo (McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Johansson), who live in a dystopian compound isolated from the outside world. After Lincoln learns that the compound inhabitants are clones used for organ harvesting as well as surrogacy for wealthy people, the two escape with the goal of exposing the illegal cloning movement. The Island has been described as a pastiche of "escape-from-dystopia" science fiction films of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Fahrenheit 451, THX 1138, Parts: The Clonus Horror, and Logan's Run. The Island cost $126 million to produce. It opened on July 22, 2005, by DreamWorks Pictures in North America and internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures, to mixed reviews, earning $36 million at the United States box office and $127 million overseas for a $162 million worldwide total. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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