The Island

"The first half of Michael Bay's new film is a spare, creepy science fiction parable, and then it shifts into a high-tech action picture. Both halves work (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" 

"This lavish, exhaustingly kinetic film is smarter than you might expect, and at the same time dumber than it could be. It's an impressive product: a triumph of cloning that almost convinces you that it possesses a soul." 

"A borrowed idea — hello, 'Blade Runner', hi there, 'Matrix' — but an idea nonetheless (...) Bad acting and moral incoherence, very much like old Bay movies (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)" 

"Frenetic actioner about refugees from a genetic cloning plant starts off intriguingly, burns up its ideas in the first hour and pads out the rest with joltingly repetitive action sequences" 

"Surrounded by banality on all sides (...) If you find yourself at 'The Island' I have only three words of advice: Vote yourself off." 

"This frenzied fiesta of firepower is about cloning people for spare parts, but the movie is a clone itself. Possessing no new ideas, it reworks and borrows from such films as 'Blade Runner', 'The Matrix' and 'Logan's Run' (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"