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Fairly Good Action Thriller
Aug 02, 2005 11:48 AM 1970 Views
(Updated Aug 02, 2005 11:48 AM)

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This is a true Sci-Fi Action movie guaranteed to glue you to your seat. You won’t even feel like getting up in the interval to get your coke in case you come back a little late and miss a few seconds of the movie. The movie opens with hordes of people in white uniforms living in some sort of ‘facility’ which is surgically clean. They are very well looked after but we wonders who they are and why they have to endure a mechanical boring life. They are not allowed to mate or form close friendships. In fact they seem to have no feelings of curiosity, no sex drive or aggressive feelings. They simply obey instructions and look forward to one thing – going to a beautiful island. They are told that they are all survivors of a ‘contamination’ of the earth but there is one space which is not contaminated and this is a beautiful island.


They will get to go there and live if they win a ‘lottery’. This lottery draw happens regularly and someone is taken from the group. We know something is wrong with this right away. Lucky for us there is a hero Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) who feels the same way. He starts asking questions about the island. No one wants him to find out the truth…but Lincoln manages to escape and meet up with one of the workers who helps run the place. From him he finds out the truth…that it's all a lie…the story of the contamination of the earth, the story about the island. The people in white have been brainwashed to believe these stories. Lincoln also finds out that they are after all not human and will all finally die. It is a terrifying thought to come to grips with but Lincoln is determined to save himself and his friends from this terrible fate.


There is an evil corporation behind this operation…a corporation which makes millions of dollars by doing what it does. If I write more about why the corporation does it, the plot will be completely revealed and I don’t want to do that. But suffice to say - the rest of the movie is full of action and increasing suspense as we wonder if Tom will finally succeed in his goal of saving his friends. When he sets out on his mission he takes a girl Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johannson) along and there is some element of romance as they discover what love is all about. As Lincoln and Jordan run from the evil people there is a lot of smoke, fire and explosions … cars flying over each other, buildings toppling, flying machines crashing and ofcourse exciting high speed chases across a future world of 2050. The car chase in the last half of the movie is sheer nail-biting suspense.


Thankfully there is not that much of blood and gore though a lot is left to the imagination. The action has been handled with finesse and style by the director Michael Bay, who has also directed The Rock. To sum up this is what one would call good popcorn entertainment with good acting and good action scenes. But don’t expect a thinking Sci-Fi movie like the Matrix or even Minority Report or you will be disappointed.


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