movie review - The Island
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Tokyo, 2006.10.17
This is a sci-fi flick that shifts gears half way through. Part Gattaca and part action film, it's beautifully set and shot and so on but the story feels stitched together and incomplete. The stars ooze charisma but it's not enough. I think they should have skipped all the over-the-top action in the second half and continued the more intelligent "first plot".
Not recommended.