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Jul 21, 2005 · “The Island” runs 136 minutes, but that’s not long for a double feature. The first half of Michael Bay’s new film is a spare, creepy science fiction parable, and then it shifts into a high-tech action picture. Both halves work. Whether they work together is a good question. The more you like one, the less you may like the other.
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Apr 16, 2019 · The Island (2005) Commentator: Michael Bay (director) 1. “I was adamant that we do this bizarre dream sequence,” he says referring to the opening scenes showing Lincoln (Ewan McGregor) on a boat...
Summaries. In 2019, a mercenary pursues a man and woman who escaped a research facility after learning their true fate. Set in a dystopian future, a group of people work in a facility, essentially as slaves.
Oct 26, 2023 · The sci-fi action thriller The Island serves up some gripping quotes that reflect its engaging storyline and dystopian themes.
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, from a story by Tredwell-Owen. It stars Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Steve Buscemi.
The residents all pine every day to win the lottery prize, which everyone believes is release from the colony to the surface’s supposed single uncontaminated place, “The Island,” a paradise where they can live in bliss for the rest of their lives.
Aug 1, 2005 · Dressed in black. And the glitzy lottery, which promises winners life on Earth's last uncontaminated spot, The Island, is advertised with phrases like, "Your time will come". This is what passes...
