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The Island
Michael Bay has to be one of my least favourite directors. Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor - they're all pretty naff. This time, however, Jerry Bruckheimer is not involved and The Island manages to carry a decent story in a thrilling and captivating way.
The Island feels like Michael Bay's belated coming of age. It retains his previous flair for action, but combines it with a good (though a tad embryonic) plot and an underlying feeling of completeness. The critics are giving The Island a bit of a pasting, but I think that's because they're analysing the film rather than immersing themselves in it. Most audiences are having a most enjoyable couple of hours, and I predict you will too. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: Thrills and spills the Michael Bay way. To enjoy this film you should: let the action distract you from thinking too much. And DON'T WATCH THE TRAILER!
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Firstly, I liked The Rock ...... and secondly I love the Bikes in The Island, they are a must see. When I say I liked the Rock I don't mean that the story was anything special but the action was excellent. The Island is a lot better in terms of action and the way it all hangs together but the story is terrible and the continuity department should be fired, given all the high tech gadgets and the leaps made by technology in 2019 I'd have thought that small self seeking projectiles would have been around, alas no and whilst technology has moved on the ability of ex SEAL's and French EHS to actually hit their target has remained the same. The acting is very good and does hold together!
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The Island introduces us to a futuristic world in which humanity is contained within a man-made world as a protection
against the contamination that has affected the planet. Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson play two citizens of this
world, named Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta respectively, with Sean Bean providing medical support to the
community. That's as much plot as you want to know before seeing it, because half the fun is learning what's going on
with the characters. The trailer for The Island gives away far, far too much of the plot and as such I urge you to
look away and stick your fingers in your ears when it comes on TV, because it will seriously dent your enjoyment of
the movie otherwise. Suffice to say there is plenty of interesting plot in there, tied together with adrenaline-pumping
action segments - and the action scenes are necessary to hold the interest, because the plot's central idea (which I'm
not going to reveal) creates some great opportunities, which are not exploited nearly as inventively or thoughtfully
as they could have been.
The acting throughout is as polished as you would expect from this team, but they are all somewhat upstaged by the
futuristic world itself. Computer graphics seem to have come a long way lately -
