Review : The Island - Page 2

Now of course this is a Michael Bay movie, so don't expect to have the spiritual side of the story, but the rest is all there in a cleverly packaged action rock'em sock'em roller-coaster ride. And I mean it's all there. The shadows, the cave, the escape, the blinding light, crash-coarse in ultimate truth and reality and the eventual liberation of all. (No spoilage there, it's a Hollywood movie, they are never surprising when it comes to storytelling)

Now on to the meat, the review. Bear with me, it's not over yet.

First off, the story... if you've gotten this far, you get the gist of it, but I'll clarify it some more though because it's not happening in 500 BCE. And it involves Eugenics. And the story, considering it's a Bay movie, is actually palatable and savoury like a good Hawg of ribs from Bar-B-Barn's.

In the future and if you are among the super rich, you can have clones made for spare parts and basically lengthen your life by about 70 years through this process. Now the clones live in an isolated environment deep underground in this super-structure where their lives are basically a huge gym with evil trainers. You don't know you are a clone, you believe you are a survivor of a plague ravaged earth and you are being maintained and cared for the eventual repopulation of the earth. All you know and want is to go to The Island to which you can only be chosen by a lottery system. The lucky few get to live topside on an island paradise. And of course it's all bullshit. And of course our hero who is a bit curious finds out what evil lies in those "dark satanic mills" - to borrow from William Blake. I won't say more because that would be telling and this review is long enough already and I'm not done yet.

So what about the actors? Well what a killer line up. You have Ob-Ewan McGregor playing Lincoln, our hero with dead-cat tattooed on his ass. You have Sean Bean, once again playing a really nasty dude (seems it's all he plays - his name is becoming synonymous with the word asshole) the mill's shrink, the ever impressive Djimon Hounsou as the bounty-hunter Laurent. Steve Buscemi playing the wacky technician who reveals the truth to our hero and heroin... oh yeah the heroine. Scarlett Johansson plays Jordan. WOW! This woman is the hottest, sexiest walking wet-dream I've seen on screen in a long, long time and she can actually act, not like a certain bimbo which won't be mentioned COUGHJessicaAlbaCOUGH. Now Scarlett is an island on to herself. Mountains, valleys, golden beach... mmmmmmmmm, but I digress, my libidinous praising aside, she can act and is completely convincing as a female action hero, not Ripley Female Action Hero, but pretty damn close. And there is also some good small roles filled by Ethan Phillips (Neelix from Star Trek: Voyager) and of course the mammoth-sized Michael Clarke Duncan whose small role is funny and then tragic.

Article Author: David Desjardins

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