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movie review - The Island

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a 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.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl