Ah, the island... A place of peace and serenity. A place where you can frolic in the meadows of gold while breathing in the pure air.
EKK! WRONG! It's actually a place where you get your spleen ripped apart from your body all because you're a clone, 'product', and belong to your original self who has paid 5 million smackers to live a little bit longer in the world.
So on to the review breakdown yes:
The Good - The Actors
Ewan McGregor - He gave Lincoln 6 Echo a rather boyish take. Which is kind of true since the clones are educated to the level of a 15 year old. As the Tom Lincoln(the dude who paid loads of dough to live longer), his Scottish accent wasn't really that thick. He did say "wankah". Nice.
Scarlett Johansson - Oh.My.Lord.The.Lips.So.Plump.So.Yummy.Body.So.Fantastic.
*Drooling*.
Acting.Ok.La.Lips.Oh.My.*Faints*.
The rest - Ok la. Sean Bean was like Boromir in a suit; the same conviction in what he is doing is right and will do anything to achieve glory. Djimon Hounsou was all right. Steve Buscemi was great and had the best lines.
The Bad - Where do I begin? Honestly speaking, The Island had sooooo much promise; a storyline that's thought provoking but terribly executed. It's like having a DVD player but you're still watching VCDs on it. So much potential what with having some really good actors in it but was bogged down by shoddy dialogue, nonsensical action sequences(i did laugh out loud at one scene where a guy was walking in the office ala lalala then suddenly gets whacked from the back by Ewan McGregor on a hover bike) and Michael Bay's penchant for too clean looking picture quality. It's great really but sometimes too clean makes it feel synthetic.
The Ugly - My sitting position was downright ridiculous. I couldn't see much of Scarlett. :(
Cloning as a business where money will buy you more time on this shitty Earth. The notion where you can create a clone, then have 'it' be removed of its, say eyebrows, is quite sick. It goes to show how rich people will do anything to remain as they are; vain and severly deprived of morality.
Do clones have souls? They feel, they hunger, they thirst, they want, they are alive. But a soul do they possess? Only God knows...
As for me, no thanks. I for one do not want to be cloned. Ever. Imagine two of me. 'Nuff said.
Chris signing off...
PS: Even clones get to have sex after only knowing about it for a couple of hours. The injustice.
2 comments:
So, d'you think it'd be worth it if you were a clone, so you could have a fuck fest two hours into learning how to do it? lol
yeah, the sex thing....I didn't think that was fair either. I agree with most of your points. I wasn't too into scarlett, she was better in lost in translation. but damn was she good eye candy. all thsoe slow-mo, airy-fairy, serene smiles...*sigh*
ewan, steve buscemi and djimon, my fave parts. loved them!!! sean bean wasn't bad, but I just kept calling him boromir. michael clarke duncan as Mr Popular? annoyingly amusing.
it was explosions everywhere, innit? it was like Michael Bay got scared with the deep plot and potential filled storyline so he decided to bomb us with 10 ton barbells. kay them Mr Bay, whatever keeps you off your meds.
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