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The Island (2005) | User Rating
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Original title: Island, The Directed by
Michael Bay Written by
Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman Cast
Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi [more]
Release Date
• USA: Jul 22, 2005
• UK: 12 Aug 2005
DVD Release Date
• R1: Dec 13, 2005
Budget $100,000,000
BoxOffice: $35.8M
Official Website:
The Island Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexuality and language.
Running Time
2 hours, 7 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
DreamWorks SKG, Warner Bros. Pictures, Parkes/MacDonald Productions
Studio DreamWorks Distribution LLC
More info on IMDb.com
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• The Island (2005)
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The Island Reviews |
Reviews, including this one, are bound to give away some of the story, but part of the fun of The Island is getting swept up into the action as it happens. I highly recommend two things: seeing this movie on a hot summer afternoon and knowing as little about it as possible beforehand. As for the latter recommendation, try to forget everything I just said. Sorry! [read review] 
--SARAH CHAUNCEY (Reel.com)
In a perfect world, The Island could have been a sort of Minority Report meets The Truman Show. Instead, it ends up being a big-budget Logan's Run, albeit one with a great opening third. But it doesn't last. After 2 1/2 grueling hours of this, you'll be begging for a trip to the island yourself. A real island, I mean. Not the movie. [read review] 
--Christopher Null (FilmCritic.com)
...The Island is glossy, energetic and decently entertaining, despite being over-produced, uneven and vaguely guilt-inducing. Given current low-riding box office receipts though, The Island ought to have no trouble soaring through the summer season with respectable grosses and reasonably satisfied product-sponsored audiences [read review] 
Overall I'd have to say The Island is a very enjoyable summer action movie and a tier higher than anything Micheal Bay has done. If you have already seen Batman and War Of The Worlds this is definitely another sweet movie this summer to add to the list. [read review] 7.5/10
Perhaps The Island will get you thinking about the adverse effects of human cloning. Oh, who are we kidding? We just want to see cars crash, stuff get blown up and Scarlett Johansson. This is a Michael Bay movie, after all. [read review] 
--Kit Bowen (Hollywood.com)
"The Island" is sketchy and messy on several levels, but it's also plain ol' escapist fare that boasts a lot of zing, two characters you'll actually care about, and just enough of a brain to keep me from being insulted. [read review] 
--Scott Weinberg (eFilmCritic.com)
...The Island is nowhere near as bad as its poor box office suggests, it’s simply that director, Michael Bay insists on squandering the film’s intelligent premise in favour of overblown action sequences. [read review]
--Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
And while it is too long and runs on automatic pilot toward the predictably concussive conclusion, it is just taut, succinct and entertaining enough to obscure how ridiculous it is. [read review] 
I won't spoil the surprises - such as they are. I will tell you that this mixture of sci-fi musing and crash- and-burn chaos packs a wallop only when metal crashes against metal. [read review] C+
If only some of that product placement coin was spent on working on a few more drafts of the screenplay, “The Island” could have been a much better film. [read review] 
--Michael Ferraro (FilmThreat.com)
Besides a lively Scarlett Johansson, there's not much to derivative clone film 'The Island' [read review]
Don't expect filet mignon with The Island; this is hamburger. [read review]
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
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