The Island (2005 film)

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The Island is a 2005 American science fiction science movie directed and produced jointly by Michael Bay. It stars Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michael Clarke Duncan and Steve Buscemi. In the story, Lincoln Six Echo (McGregor) struggles to adapt to the highly structured world he lives in, isolated in a complex, and a series of events that unfold when he questions how honest the world is. After Lincoln learned that the plural population was a clone used for organ harvesting and substitute for the rich in the outside world, he tried to escape with Jordan Two Delta (Johansson) and expose the movement of illegal cloning.

Island costs $ 126 million to generate. The original score was compiled by Steve Jablonsky, who will continue to print more Bay works. Opened on July 22, 2005 to mixed reviews, earning $ 36 million at the US box office and $ 127 million overseas for a total of $ 162 million worldwide. The Island has been described as a pastiche of the "escape-of-dystopia" science fiction film of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Fahrenheit 451 , THX 1138 , Parts: The Clonus Horror , and Logan Run .

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Plot

By 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated complex. Their communities are governed by a strict set of rules. Residents believe the outside world has become too contaminated for human life with the exception of a free island of transmission. Every week, the lottery is done and the winner will leave the complex to stay on the island.

Lincoln began to dream that he knew not from his own experience. Dr. Merrick, a scientist who runs the compound, worries and puts probes in Lincoln's body to monitor his brain activity. While quietly visiting the electricity facility in the basement where his friend, technician James McCord, worked, Lincoln found a live moth in the ventilation hole, which led him to conclude the outside world was not really contaminated. Lincoln follows the moth to another part, where it finds the "lottery" is actually a disguise to remove the inhabitants of the compound, where "winners" are then used for organ harvesting, surrogate mothers, and other purposes for each person's sponsor, who is identical to them in appearance.

Merrick learns Lincoln has discovered the truth, which forced Lincoln to escape. Meanwhile, Jordan has been chosen for the island. Lincoln and Jordan escape from the facility, and appear in the Arizona desert. Lincoln explained the truth to him, and they set out to find the real world. Merrick hired Burkinabà © mercenary and former GIGN operative Albert Laurent to find and return them unscathed to the base.

Lincoln and Jordan find McCord, who explains that all residents of the facility are clones of wealthy and/or desperate sponsors, who remain ignorant of the real world and are conditioned to never question their environment or history. McCord gave the name of Lincoln's sponsor in Los Angeles, and helped them to the Yucca maglev station, before the mercenaries killed him. In New York City, Jordan's sponsor, model Sarah Jordan, is in a coma after a car accident and needs a transplant from Jordan to survive. Lincoln's sponsor, Tom Lincoln, gave Lincoln several explanations about the cloning agency, causing Lincoln to realize that he had gotten Tom's memory. Tom agrees to help Lincoln and Jordan but secretly contacts Merrick, who sends Laurent and mercenaries to their location. Lincoln Laurent tricks into Tom's shooting, allowing him to take on Tom's identity.

Merrick suspects that the cloning defects are responsible for Lincoln's memories and behavior, which resulted in him and every future clone generation questioning their environment and even entering the memories of their sponsors. To prevent this, he decided to eliminate four newest generation of clones. Lincoln and Jordan, however, plan to free their fellow clones. Posing as Tom, Lincoln returns to the complex to destroy a holographic projector that hides the outside world. Jordan allows him to be arrested to help plan Lincoln. Laurent, who has moral doubts about the treatment of clones after witnessing their struggle for survival and learning that Sarah Jordan might not survive even with organ transplants, helped Jordan. Lincoln kills Merrick and the freed clones, seeing the outside world for the first time. Lincoln and Jordan sailed by boat together.

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Cast

• Ewan McGregor as Lincoln Six Echo
• Scarlett Johansson as Jordan Two Delta
• Djimon Hounsou as Albert Laurent
• Sean Bean as Dr. Merrick
• Michael Clarke Duncan as Starkweather Two Delta
• Steve Buscemi as James "Mac" McCord
• Kim Coates as Charles Whitman

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Production

Filming

The ruined building where Jordan and Lincoln sleep after leaving the underground complex is in Rhyolite, Nevada. Part of the city was shot in Detroit, Michigan, with Michigan Central Station one of the famous locations. Another part of the film was taken in Coachella Valley, California.

Product placement

The computer at Merrick's office at the Institute, which features a large tabletop touchscreen display capable of detecting some form of input, is rumored to be a large version of Microsoft PixelSense. The design was actually proposed by a technology adviser at MIT, which aims to produce a futuristic technology vision that can be trusted.

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Release

box office

The Island grossed $ 12,409,070 in more than 3,100 theaters on its opening weekend. The film reached a gross of $ 35,818,913 domestically and $ 127,130,251 in overseas markets, totaling worldwide $ 162,949,164.

In the end, the film is considered a box office bomb, which Edward Jay Epstein of Slate blames on bad publicity. Epstein notes that research polls show little awareness of The Island's upcoming releases between its target targets and that the trailer has little to do with the movie plot. He writes, "What actually fails here is not directing, acting, or story (all of which are acceptable for a summer movie) but a marketing campaign."

Critical reception

The Island draws ambivalent responses from critics. Aggregator reviews Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 40% based on reviews from 197 critics, and an average rating of 5.4 out of 10. The critical consensus of the website reads, "Clones of THX 1138 , Coma , and Logan Run , The Island is a hard and bombastic Michael Bay movie where explosions and chases are more important than characters, dialogs or plots. "Metacritic scores weighted average 50 out of 100 based on 38 criticisms, indicating "mixed or average review."

Roger Ebert said, "[the first half] is a scary and scary science fiction story, and then shifts into a high-tech action image. work. "Whether they work together is a good question." He gave the film three of the four stars and praised the performance of the actors, specifically Michael Clarke Duncan: "[He] only has three or four scenes, but they are very important, and he brings true horror to them. "On the critical side, he said the movie" never satisfies the full circle "and missed the opportunity" to do what the best science fiction is, and use the future as a way to criticize the present. "

Justin Chang calls this film "excessive sensory exercise" and says that Bay takes "heavy moral riddles of human cloning, completes them in a bullet storm, chases cars and more explosions than you can shake a syringe. "He noted McGregor and Buscemi as the highlights of the film, along with the production design of Nigel Phelps. However, he felt the story had no surprises and blamed the "attention-deficit-editing by Paul Rubell and Christian Wagner" for a series of actions that he found less tense and "deeply repetitive".

Salon Stephanie Zacharek also praised the actors but felt that when the movie "is really interesting, Bay thinks she needs to throw in a car crash or a barrage of shots to keep our attention." He feels the film has enough surprises "to make you wish it was better." Similarly, The New York Times' A.O. reviewer Scott said, "the movie is smarter than you think, and at the same time more stupid than it should be."

The reviewer is very critical of placing excessive product in the film.

Copyright infringement law

Michael Marshall Smith's 1996 novel Spares , in which the hero frees clever clones of "reserve farming", chosen by DreamWorks in the late 1990s, but never made. It remains unclear whether this story inspired The Island, and so Marshall Smith did not find it useful to pursue legal action on equality.

Canadian Disabled DVD Release

The Canadian DVD release The Island was originally advertised to include Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English and French audio tracks; but only contains Dolby Digital 2.0 and French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.

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References

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External links

• The Island on IMDb
• The Island at AllMovie

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