The Island

Send in the clones. This movie was cool as $hit to me. Featuring "it girl" Scarlett Jo (Lost In Translation) and charming Ewan McGregor (Revenge of the Sith), The Island takes place in the not-so-distant year of 2019. McGregor and Johansson are two "humans" living amongst others in a sort of pristine bio-dome type of place. The world as we know it ended years ago, and McGregor and Johansson are two survivors of the great contamination that ended human civilization...or so they think! Turns out they're clones (I'm not giving away anything here-you can glean as much from the trailer) of real people. As we learned in movies such as A.I., clones/robots have feelings too! The truth doesn't sit to well with our heroes once they discover it, and we watch them flee for their carbon-copied lives. They run. And they run some more. The movie tends to drag towards the end, peppered with a few explosions for those who missed their morning testosterone milkshake. Also featured are Djimon Honsou (Amistad, Gladiator) and Steve Buscemi (most notably of Reservoir Dogs). A few script details don't quite add up. For example, the clones are prohibited from having sex, yet some of the females are pregnant. I guess the powers-that-be are in no short supply of turkey basters, I dunno. Aside from the pacing and a few plot holes, I think it was pretty good though it begins better than it ends.