I was just looking for something to help me chill out from a pretty stressful week at work and school and The Island was it. It starts off in a 1984-like utopian world where Lincoln (Ewan McGregor) goes about his daily life, usually working. However, he also has this penchant to lurking around restricted areas. Then, on one of his explorations, he got a jarring reality check when he discovers the truth about “The Island”. He immediately sets out to rescue Jordan (Scarlett Johansson) who is about to go to “The Island”. This is when the action began in spades and shovels. The action is entertaining enough though they can sometimes be too loud and noisy (including a car chase reminiscent of the looon car chase in Bad Boys 2). The story was essentially just a foundation for these action sequences. Which is too bad since it could have been as nice as that of Equilibrium or The Matrix. Still, as an action fix, it delivered (though not as well as the two aforementioned movies).
One last thing. I know movies are commercialized but can’t they tone commercialization down a bit?!? The movies is peppered with 2-second brand exposures and it got kind of annoying. It even includes ones of MSN Search and XBox. M$!!! Maybe that’s why I was annoyed :P
Rating: 3/5