Saturday, August 2, 2008

The Island (2005)

Uh so I was pretty sure this was about a bunch of guys on a Pacific island killing each other but it turned out to be a sci-fi movie about eugenics. Hell, thats right up my alley. Half Minority Report and half The Matrix, this is about hundreds of people living in a post-apocalyptic utopia.
Things in the utopia are great. Life is mundane, activities are structured, and everything is clean. But....some things don't make sense. For example, hundreds of people work in this factory where they pipet nutrients into tubes all day. Glucosamine and D-Tyrosine and shit. Then there the bar, where there are no alcoholic drinks. Everything is pomegranate juice and health food. What's with that?
The curtain falls when one of the citizens finds out about the outside world, revealing that utopian society is nothing more than a cloning facility. A clone war ensues.

You know what, this is just a cheap copy of Matrix.
Rating: 50%

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

watch equilibrium or dark city