So…how much for a clone of Scarlett Johansson?There are two ways to review a film: The first is to judge it on whether it met your expectations going in and the second is to look at the film and ask if it still works despite its flaws. Under the first category The Island fails early on, but under the second it succeeds spectacularly. I went to see what I thought was going to be a big budget high-thinking moral sci-fi tale about cloning, but what I got was a huge summer action adventure chase movie inside a sci-fi structure that just blew me away for two hours. Does it deal with the moral issues? Kinda’. Would I have liked to see them develop the philosophical and ethical implications more deeply? Probably. But did I enjoy the movie? You better damn believe I did. I had a blast.
Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) is unhappy. He’s one of the lucky ones; he survived the cataclysm and radiation that devastated the earth and lives in relative comfort with the other survivors who hope every night that they can win a chance to live outside on the island, the last free uncontaminated zone on the planet.
