The Island, 2005

I'm not sure who exactly tried to ruin this movie, but I'm blaming Michael Bay, because it's convenient. The setting of the story is really good, with the dissident protagonist starting to question the social construct around him, finally evolving into outright rebellion against a system that he sees as opressive. The first 35 minutes of the (2h 15min) movie are really exellent piece of movie storytelling, but after that point it's starts to decline. The bad guys seem to get all the tough breaks. Where as the protagonists seem to implausibly luck out all the time, up to the point where they crash a flying motorcycle into a skyscraper and then proceed to fall off said skyscraper, and surviving without a scratch. It was so over the top that after that point most of the tension and drama were just gone. The cast was great, with Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson as the main protagonists, and Steve Buscemi as the conveniently placed wise old sage to give the naïve protagonist help and advice that saved the day in the end. And Sean Bean as the evil Dr. Merrick, who in the end throws away his lab coat and grabs a gun to go fight Ewan McGregor personally. I didn't really get whether he was supposed to be a doctor or some sort of a supervillain. But I quess that the last 30 minutes of the movie was mosly supposed to be this big action finale, and wasn't really part of the main story, and it wouln't have been fair to leave Sean Bean without a fight scene. But even with the over the top action and implausibly convenient plot carriage, it still manages to be more than just entertaining. It's not great, but pretty good.

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