The life of an ordinary man Lincoln Six Zero, who like dozens of men work in a strange colony, where the LG act as slaves and they are not allowed to get away from it, has been changed completely when he wins the lottery held regular, so he will travel to Jordan to Delta, where is thought to be a paradise, as he shocked by finding out the truth.
Since Michael Bay never knows when enough is enough, every chase is restaged over and again and the narrative matrix is as simplistic as it is repetitive.
Urban Cinefile
October 18, 2008
A stunning futuristic thriller about cloning and immortality, The Island combines spectacle with controversy.
What the clone lovers find is a new world -- it's 2019 -- of highway collisions, flying motorbikes, exploding buildings, bad acting and moral incoherence, very much like old Bay movies.
Cinema Crazed
April 29, 2009
Only in a Bay movie can we sit for two hours watching super models trying to survive a world of supermodels and fast cars.
You have Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, these terrific actors reduced to saying, 'Go, go and duck' and hanging from buildings and all that stuff. And it just falls apart.
Salon.com
July 22, 2005
The Island is nothing so dull as a total failure. But it has enough surprises up its clingy white sleeve to make you wish it were better.
The pace of this roller coaster ride becomes too furious to remember that it all started out as an adventure addressing some pertinent ethical issues about the pitfalls of stem cell research, cloning, and bio-genetics.
