Movie: The Island

	Distributor:	Dreamworks SKG
	Release:	July 22, 2005
	Genre:	Action/Adventure, Thriller
	MPAA Rating:	PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexuality and language

The title reminds me of those B horror movies that take place on an island, I wondered if some of that will surface in the film. Well nothing of that genre here, thankfully.

Cool premise: clones are being raised in a facility and they exist so that the original people they were cloned from could have spare parts. They're treated like kids although they have adult bodies. The movie, although entertaining, fails to sustain the plausibility (there will parts you'll be saying "Puh-leez").

Ewan McGregor shows here a bit his ability to shift character, including change in accent. Not surprising considering that the past movies he's done, taken together, show he could play either a misfit, rogue, rascal, respectable mentor, or hopeless romantic.

To complete the cast are Scarlett Johansson - the Lost in Translation girl, Sean Bean - who's back to his intellectual bad guy roles, Steve Buscemi - a character actor who has appeared in so many movies his face is more familiar than his name (he's got lots of speaking parts in this movie, yay!), and Djimon Hounsou - who's appeared in movies like Amistad and Hotel Rwanda.

Some of the questions that popped into my mind:

• When did Lincoln start visiting McCord (the character played by Buscemi)? Why would McCord encourage the visits if he didn't like the trouble?
  
• Why didn't the other workers report the visits?
  
• Why was Lincoln able to hold on to the key to the maintenance area indefinitely?
  
• Why did the clones have the same hair style as their sponsors? If they're being grown just for spare parts, why bother making their hair style reflect that of the sponsor?
  
• Why was it easy for Lincoln and Jordan to figure out how to make love considering they weren't exposed to sex? Whereas, I've read in some newspaper that there are Chinese or Singaporean couples who had to be told how to do it by a doctor because no one told them how?