The Island

Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson    d/ Michael Bay

For an hour or so this one kept my interest. Good set design/locations, plausible dystopian plot, fast but not too fast editing pace worked for me. Then some asinine chase sequences removed it from all sense of reality and lost me. Nobody cares about the danger faced by a toon...and that's what these characters became.

This same theme...human clones raised for insurance organs...was done with so much more intelligence and sensitivity in Never Let Me Go. The morality of the use of clones, androids, sentient robots of all stripe will soon be upon us and bears serious thought. Junk like this film don't further that discussion.

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