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Release Date: July 22nd, 2005

Running Time: 2 hrs. 7 min.

U.S. Box Office: $35,799,026

Rating: PG-13 for Intense sequences of violence and action, some sexuality and language.

Director: Michael Bay

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi

Critics Reviews: 6 out of 10

Reelviews If there are lots of flashes and bangs, and smoke and fire, either your car has just rear-ended a Pinto or Michael Bay has made a new movie. Sometimes, both are disasters. In the case of The Island, there's enough fun to be had that it's almost possible to ignore the stupidity of the story and the cavity that replaces character development. James Berardinelli

Chicago Sun-Times "The Island" runs 136 minutes, but that's not long for a double feature. 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. Whether they work together is a good question. Roger Ebert

San Francisco Chronicle The glass-half-empty way of thinking about "The Island" is that it's a science fiction movie with a brilliant premise that collapses into a series of amusing but empty action-film cliches. The glass-half-full way is to observe the same thing but to see the film as an unusually amusing action movie with some brains behind it... Mick LaSalle

USA Today The overwrought sci-fi action thriller The Island could be renamed Revenge of the Clones. This frenzied fiesta of firepower is about cloning people for spare parts, but the movie is a clone itself. Claudia Puig

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