Review : The Island - Page 3

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.

Special Effects? VERY FREAKING GOOD. When Lincoln and Linclone are side by side, you cannot tell, you cannot see the special effects. The cityscapes are absolutely fantastic, the cave is impressive and then there's the... well I'll get to that yummy part later.

Any respectable Michael Bay movie has to have a huge over-the-top adrenaline releasing heart-stopping car chase. If you thought the car chase from Bad Boys II was insane... buckle-up Rupert, because Mikey just went PRO. This car chase is the over-the-top car chase to end all over-the-top car chases. It's at least 5 times better than Bad Boys II's car chase and then... then it really goes over the edge because there are speeder-bikes. Yes speeder-bikes, like Return of the Jedi speeder bikes, but BETTER. And then it goes over-the-top even more, even to much, but considering this is a summer roller-coaster movie and everything is just superbly well done, I'm more forgiving. Most prototype cars and trucks in this movie are relics because of the time line but what an abundant source of really cool looking vehicles.

The score is a relentless assault of industrial music (meaning NIN and Manson inspired with a dash of David Bowie) and also a lot of well placed classical music when the action takes a break (there's only 2 breaks in the movie, so don't bring a big gulp in there) which makes for a thunderous score that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

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