The Island

[The White Album]

Just saw a sneak peek of this tonight. Very entertaining and by far the best film Michael Bay has ever done. Loses its focus in the third act with a few cheap dramatic developments, but the set-up is extremely intriguing, peppered with amazing action set-pieces that had the audience's jaws dropping. For optimum enjoyment, I'd highly suggest knowing as little as possible about this film going in. I had no idea what "The Island" actually was and that's part of the fun.

Production design was mind-blowing. The look of this film is worth the ticket price alone. You can tell every dollar spent is on that screen. Scarlett has never looked sexier.

[supergeri]

I saw the sneak preview too, and although the set up was kind of unfocused and it stole ideas from just about every scifi actioner under the sun, I enjoyed it too. If I had known less about it I would have probably enjoyed it more. Pesky ad gave everything away.

When Bay is in his chase element he is king. The sequences are definitely white-knuckle stuff. McGregor is good, but better in the 2nd role if you know what I mean. Scarlett is my favorite young actress and a real screen presence. I wouldn't say it's Bay's best though. That honor is still held by the "The Rock", but it sure beats the pants off "Bad Boys 2" and "Pearl Harbor."

[Biohazard]

by far the best film Michael Bay has ever done.

I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not. Few things are worse than the sh-t that Bay has done the past few.....well, in his whole life.

[The White Album]

That honor is still held by the "The Rock", but it sure beats the pants off "Bad Boys 2" and "Pearl Harbor."

I know I'm in the minority, but I hated THE ROCK. BAD BOYS 2 was fun until the silly Cuban ending.

[Kelsey]

There was a sneak preview?

Dang iiiit.

[TwoBitHack]

It was nice to see the shot in the trailer of Johansson and Mcgregor silhouetted againsted the massive seeting sun, an obvious homage to George Lucas' THX-1138. At least Bay has done some homework. I will definitely see this film and expect it to be a good ride.

[Biohazard]

It was nice to see the shot in the trailer of Johansson and Mcgregor silhouetted againsted the massive seeting sun, an obvious homage to George Lucas' THX-1138. At least Bay has done some homework. I will definitely see this film and expect it to be a good ride.

Since when is an obvious rip-off and blatant display of unoriginality a good thing?

[TwoBitHack]

Homage is fine.

[whistlelock]

Homage, yeah but not a blatant rip. He ripped Parts: the clonus horror.

[Biohazard]

Homage is fine.

Immitation is the nicest form of flattery, but duplication. Recreating something from another movie is simply being unoriginal for the sake of it.