Review – The Island

I know I’ve griped several times in the past about movies – especially sci fi flicks – that turn out to be nothing but plot elements “borrowed” from other movies. But this is an especially bad case. Almost everything in this production from the big plot points down to the characters and dialogue comes across as vaguely familiar, recognizable from one previous effort or another (particularly Clonus where the similarities were so close that they inspired a settled-out-of-court lawsuit). As a result, this tale of clones discovering the sinister secret behind their true purpose in life will come across as fresh and entertaining only if you haven’t seen a sci fi movie in the last three or four decades. But if you don’t need a Cliff’s Notes primer on the genre, this won’t seem much more than expensive and stale. Oh, and it probably should have ended a half an hour or so before it actually did. See if desperate