The Island

"Your time will come..."

2005 2h 16m EN

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6.8

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★6.7TMDB · 6,106●50Metacritic★6.8IMDB · 340,935

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Synopsis

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In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.

“Your time will come...”

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Cast

Ewan McGregor
Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
Scarlett Johansson
Jordan Two Delta / Sarah Jordan
Djimon Hounsou
Albert Laurent
Sean Bean
Dr. Bernard Merrick
Steve Buscemi
James 'Mac' McCord
Michael Clarke Duncan
Starkweather Two Delta / Jamal Starkweather
Ethan Phillips
Jones Three Echo
Brian Stepanek
Gandu Three Echo

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Roberto Orci, Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$126M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 21 years ago.

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3 / 8

CAST

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640+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Michael Bay, shot by Mauro Fiore. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Steve Jablonsky. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Christian Wagner shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson and Djimon Hounsou carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Your time will come...".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Michael Bay directs. Mauro Fiore behind the camera. Steve Jablonsky scores. Christian Wagner cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$126M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Released 21 years ago.
3640+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
4Directed by Michael Bay, shot by Mauro Fiore. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Steve Jablonsky. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Christian Wagner shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson and Djimon Hounsou carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Your time will come...".
9IMDB entry: tt0399201 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 14 themes, including "genetics", "love of one's life", "escape", "freedom".

The technical file

Cinematography: Mauro Fiore
Original score: Steve Jablonsky
Editing: Christian Wagner
Production design: Nigel Phelps
Costume design: Deborah L. Scott
Makeup / hair: Greg Funk
VFX supervisor: Eric Brevig
Sound: Gary C. Bourgeois
Stunt coordinator: Kurt Bryant
Runtime: 136 min · 2h 16m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $126,000,000
Box office: $162,949,164
Return: 129% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Island (2005)
Metacritic: 50/100
IMDB rating: 6.8/10 · 340,935 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

1 win & 6 nominations total

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What people are saying

markuspm2013-12-23
I have watched this movie soooo many times already and I am still not tired of it. OK I confess I really am a big fan of "Jordan Two Delta".
John Chard2019-09-23
★ 7/10
Lincoln Six Echo and the Utopian Redemption. Lincoln Six Echo is having vivid dreams about a past existence, here in this Utopian world he lives in, he's starting to question the function of his world. In this perfectly formed existence the inhabitants dream of winning the lottery, the prize? Relocation to an outside paradise known as The Island. After stumbling upon something sinister, Lincoln escapes with fellow inmate Jordan Two Delta, and now the consequences for both of them are as dangerous as it is for the rulers of this strange and intriguing place. If you are entering a movie that is directed by Michael Bay then one can reasonably assume you know what you are going to get, cue explosions, ear splitting sound mix and a host of carnage set pieces. Bay's formula works and mostly his efforts have entertained the popcorn masses. So it's interesting to find that "The Island" does have some intellectual nous in amongst the Bayhem that the director is famed for. Working from a tantalising cloning story written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen (though the similarities to Robert Fiveson's "The Clonus Horror" resulted in a law suit being filed), "The Island" now more than ever is highly engrossing sci-fi in premise, where certainly the ethics of the story's core are worth scrutinising. One of course can argue that Bay was the wrong director for such interesting material, and yes it's a point to note that the characters and plot arcs are not given any depth or a serious second glance, but really we are here for the bang to go with the buck are we not?. Ewan McGregor (Lincoln) and Scarlett Johansson (Jordan) play it just about right, the bemusement of their situation is coupled with daring do heroics, while suitably tongue in cheek performances come from Sean Bean, Djimon Hounsou and a picture stealing Steve Buscemi. This is not a film that is easy to recommend because it can frustrate as much as it entertains, but entertain it does, and with big screen TVs and glorious home cinema a staple requirement for the movie fanatic, "The Island" is something of an essential purchase - check out the highly octane outrageousness of the road pursuit here, it's fabulous through the speakers. A serious topic is given a nonsense sheen for sure, but hell what a blast it is. 7/10
Kamurai2020-07-24
★ 8/10
Great watch, will watch again, and can recommend. Even though this is from 2005, it's amazing that when you have a futuristic world, it holds up over time as the 2020 new tech doesn't seem to matter as much, or you design characters that wouldn't have average technology, this sort of does both. Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johannson, Djimon Hounsou, even Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi and Michael Clark Duncan. This has a great cast and clearly had too much money to work with. There are all sorts of sci-fi effects, crazy constructed sets, and some really over the top action sequences for this premise. And this premise is excellent: a clone discovers he's a clone and makes an escape attempt, it's a race for survival. The writing is excellently paced, and structure with a little too much of an establishing act, but it's useful and not boring, so that's still good. The leads truly embody the characters, showing a line between ignorance and intelligence: they are ignorant of societal constructs but incredibly intelligent as they've spent the last 3 years attempting to escape a puzzle box. The mechanisms to keep the pursuit of the fugitives going are all rather seemless, and there is open discussion of morality of the facility's actions by most of the cast without harping on about it. There is science and action abound, please enjoy.