Since this movie was released most of 5 years ago, it won't receive any nominations this year, and you will probably be pleased to hear that as I recall, it didn't make the final nominating ballot in the year of it's release.  And Welcome to the board.

The idea of human cloning is a hot and controversial topic at the moment, and this film capitalizes on that in a big way. The first half of the film while very technical and detailed still manages to hold viewers’ interest and set up the story in an engrossing manner. Unfortunately, the film does not make good on its early promise. Things start out well as we meet Lincoln Six Echo ( Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johansson), best friends in a Utopian facility.

In this strange new world, friendship is the highest form of human relationships. Lincoln and Jordan are clones who think they are human, among the last survivors of a world wide calamity. Their lives in the Utopian facility are highly structured and routine. The one big break in this near perfect but mundane world is The Lottery. On occasion, a lottery is held in the facility with the “winners” being sent to what is assumed to be the last paradise on earth – a legendary place known as The Island. As you may suspect by now, all is not what it appears to be and Lincoln and Jordan will soon find that out for themselves.

As I stated previously, the first half of this film is well thought out and well structured. Human cloning is a complicated process, and the exploration of it here is complicated as well. The movie presents us with a frightening new idea -the idea of human cloning as a common practice, and the perception of these clones as objects rather than people. The second part of the film veers off into an entirely different direction reflecting Michael Bay’s usual preferance for violence. The film erupts into action, action, and more action; explosions and more explosions; violence and more violence. The film begins to look like it was pieced together – careless and shoddy. At one point, Johansson and McGregor fall off a building- McGregor is carved up, but Johansson has no scratches whatsoever!

I believe this movie had the potential to be a great sci-fi adventure film but half way through – it lost its way. The actors are outstanding but unfortunately, the script does not live up to their talents. It has recently been announced that Michael Bay plans a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece The Birds, I certainly hope that he will study the techniques of that great director before undertaking such a venture. As for “The Island” itself, I’m sure Hitchcock would have done a much better job!

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexuality and language. Running Time 136 minutes

yeah he is right some critics liked the film most reviews for the movie were mixed

This being a candidate to the Razzies? You're joking right? Anyone with one brain, two eyes and two ears can teel The Island is nowhere near being Razzie-material. This being on here is just for the dumb reason that you can't forgive Bay for Armageddon or Pearl Harbor. It has been so many bad movies this year, from Alone in the Dark to Sound of Thunder to The Perfect Man and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, and you choose to have The Island with these movies? Seriously, what are you smoking? It maybe wasn't the most original movie out there but it was not anywhere near being Razzie-material; the first hour was intriguing and creepy, and the second had some great action scenes.

It's all up to you now. If you want to make it official that you know absolutely nothing about movies (which was discussed heavily last year when you nominated a 10 second interview clip of Britney Spears in Fahrenheit 9/11) I guess you can nominate The Island, which was a good film; you have to have some brains to understand it though, but if you can proove that you are clever and serious you let it be and nominate the truly bad movies of the year.

C'mon, even an idiot could tell that The Island is nowhere near being Razzie-material. Get a grip for heaven sake.