The Island (2005)

The Island
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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Studio: DreamWorks SKG
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Jul 22, 2005
Running Time: 127 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Lincoln Six-Echo and Jordan Two-Delta are among the hundreds of residents of a contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, everything about their day-to-day lives is monitored, seemingly for their own good. The only way out--and the hope they all share--is to be chosen to go to The Island, reportedly the last uncontaminated spot in the world following an ecological disaster that took the lives of everyone on the planet except them. Recently plagued by unexplained nightmares, Lincoln is restless and increasingly questioning of the restrictions placed on his life. But he is unprepared for the truth when his growing curiosity leads to the terrible discovery that everything about his existence is a lie, that The Island is a cruel hoax and that he, Jordan and everyone they know are actually more valuable dead than alive. With time running out, Lincoln and Jordan make a daring escape to the outside world they've never known. Once they are away from the prying eyes of the institute, the innocent friendship the two shared begins to deepen into something more. But with the forces of the institute relentlessly hunting them down, Lincoln and Jordan have one overriding mission: to live.
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Lincoln Six-Echo/Tom Lincoln
Jordan Two-Delta/Sarah Jordan
Albert Laurent
Merrick
McCord
Starkweather
Jones Three Echo
Gandu Three Alpha
The Community Announcer
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The Island is about two clones who don't know they are clones, and upon finding out the truth, escape their high-security surroundings and are chased all over Los Angeles. It doesn't make a lick of sense, of course, but we don't care. This is the real Attack of the Clones, baby!

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Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two-Delta (Scarlett Johansson)--and with names like that, you've got to be somewhat suspicious--are among the hundreds of residents of a contained facility somewhere in… Continued

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rating  PETER TRAVERS - July 22, 2005
Early buzz indicated that Michael Bay had finally directed an epic that didn't sink to the idiot shallows of Pearl Harbor and Armageddon. Fat chance. I've elevated the rating by half a star because Scarlett Johansson is a luminous camera subject that even Bay can't sully, and because the plot contains a glimmer of an actual idea. A borrowed idea -- hello, Blade Runner, hi there, Matrix -- but an idea nonetheless: A greedy scientist (Sean Bean) has learned how to clone the rich and famous so they… Continued