The 6th Day

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Summary: Arnold's back and better than ever
Review: After watching recently a sub-par apocolyptic action thriller that will remain nameless, I figured Arnold Schwarzenegger had run his course in the action movie genre. It was a predictable action flick, with the required explosions, car chases, etc. Then I heard he was coming out with a movie in the style of Total Recall at the end of 2000, and I became interested, yet unsure what to expect. It had turned out to be one the most intellegent films to come out of a dismal year of moviemaking. The filmmaker takes a hot-button topic like cloning and turns it into a thriller with a mind and a heart. Pets in the not-too-distant future can be brought back to life in new bodies, but human cloning has been banned, for obvious moral/scientific reasons. He plays a pilot who is assigned a charter to ferry a billionare. Things after that become very intense,resulting in the cloning of Arnold, and with mind-blowing action scenes not seen since T2-Judgement Day. There is really no slow spots to the film; it moves along a fluid-like pace. The special effects are very good, and I don't need to tell you what an action movie with 2 Arnold Schwarzenegger's fighting along side is like. Watch out bad guys! This is a film on the same intellect as total recall, and with the action scenes and heart to match T2. I think this film will do much better on DVD/video now that the word is out about this film.

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Summary: Total Recall Part 2???
Review: It seems they took total recall, repackaged it and sent it out as this movie. The plot is fairly predictable, but overall the film is entertaining. The problem is that Arnold is now 50 and is starting to show signs of age. After making the classic action movie Terminator 2, movie-goers are now demanding action movies with a good plot that is not predictable. I am not sure why Arnold doesn't try to make some more complex action movies, actually just ones that we cannot figure out what is gonna happen after the first 15-20 mins. I would say this movie would make a nice rental, but not worth buying it.

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Summary: I liked this one a lot.
Review: I didn't even know Arnold had a new movie out until I happened to catch glimpse of a poster at the movie theater. They must not have advertised this one very well. Usually it seems that when a Arnold movie is coming out I hear about it months in advance. Needless to say my girlfriend and I decided to see this one instead of "The Grinch" (Thank God). We both had a really good time and enjoyed it. I can't wait until Arnold's next movie. I hear he will be making True Lies 2 and Terminator 3 within the next couple of years.

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Summary: A must for DVD owners!!
Review: The 6th day is a good movie. The Acting is typical for the Genre(Big tough guy with emotions about his family)but the special effects in this one raise the level a little for future action movies. 6th day managed to pull off some simply stunning effects. If you are an Arnold fan (and if you are reading this review you most likely are!) then this is a must have on DVD. Not only do you get to see the movie but you get an inside look at how they made the special effects. I won't go as far as to say Arnold is back but he's definitely on the way!

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Summary: Awesome movie
Review: Arnold is still the king of action. Even though this isn't one of his best it is still very entertaining and manages to get a message across.

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Summary: ... with an expected "Twist"
Review: Supposedly there is a twist to this film about who really isthe clone and a couple days after watching it, I could care less. Ireally like Arnold movies... but I was a bit disappointed with thisone. Even Robert Duvall couldn't make it impressive. It is yourtypical, bang bang shoot 'em up Arnold flick. To me it seems likethey wanted to make something that really throws you off, keeps youguessing all the while you say to yourself, maybe this could reallyhappen. ... thats it. But you really doget captivated by any of the characters. If you wanna see Arnold dothe same old thing shooting people and blowing ... up.... this isjust for you....

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Summary: The 6th Day- too soft-too twist????
Review: THE 6th DAY is an action adventure movie that can be varied different ways from different perspectives. This movie can be real heavy on one side- too light on others.

The 6th Day is the story of a charter pilot, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger- Predator, T2, End of Days, Collateral Damage) who returns to his home one day to find someone else that looks just like him enjoying his birthday party with his family and friends. Suddenly the suspense picks up as cloned terrorists are chasing down the evidence in the hope to destroy and cover up their secret, and Gibson is the evidence... Featuring an all-star cast Michael Rooker (Cliffhanger), Robert Duvall (Gone in 60 Seconds), Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Wendy Crewson (Air Force One)- THE 6th DAY is a gauranteed fun-filled adventure!

MY OPINION: This is obviously an Arnold film... In the future... some weird weapons... and action...

But this film has certain gaps in the film that leave you watching the movie and wonder what was the whole point???? Why was Adam Gibson cloned in the first place??? Yet there's suspense and totally unexpected twists and thrills- not to mention comedy which makes up for some of the missing pieces. I was hoping for more action in this film... I was expecting more than in Arnold's previous film END OF DAYS- which I didn't think was too terrible. The weapons in this film were too cheezy and un-real even for a futuristic film. I was hoping for machine gun lasers and big tanks and stuff- but there's just pistol like laser guns... oh well... you'll still most likely enjoy the film because the acting, unexpected twists and thrills, comedy and story make it worth while.

"I MIGHT be back..." Arnold Schwarzenegger's line for THE 6th DAY.

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Summary: Reminded Me Why I Started Going To The Movies.
Review: Growing Up on a Steady Diet of "Commando", "Running Man", "Predator" and (of course) "The Terminator", these films have Inevitable Shaped My Life. So when buying my ticket for "The 6th Day" I knew I'd have a great time, and my high expectations were met. I haven't seen a film like this on the big screen for a while. It's an "80's film trapped in the body of a 90's film". (or is that the other way around) Any way you look at it, it's a great Action film. Arnold is back, doing what we love best, the Supporting cast are Above Average, (Tony Goldwyn and Robert Duvall are standouts) and the Action Set-pieces are also Above Average. It get's a 4 instead of a 5 because it tries to hard to top "Total Recall" and that is an Impossibility. Keep it up Arnold, you've got another 20 years of Action Films in ya.

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Summary: AWESOME, fun, and everything else
Review: Great movie, which takes us to the future and all the cool things we can look forward too. Great story, awwesome special effects, and good characters. Trully a very fun, fun, movie to watch.

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Summary: Don't be afraid of tomorrow - Arnie is still here!
Review: You can enjoy this film and leave the theater with the 5-star feeling if you use my advice. Which is simple - enjoy the visuals but don't even try to think! Because below the garish cover made of shooting/kicking/blasting/goofing stir the most mind-shattering problems of today's humanity - the uniqueness, the immortality. They are voiced, but the "intellectual" aspect of the movie is drowned in action flick cliches.

I see that film as a session of mass psychotherapy in pop style. Yes, guys, there are some eggheads obsessed with the very unsettling issues but we still have our good old Arnie to spill their overdeveloped brain all over the set.

In every action movie the hero fights the villain. In 6th Day the director did everything possible to make the bespectacled guy fit that role:

1) He is made to resemble the "much-loved" computer mogul as closely as they can afford without being taken to court by Mr. Bill Gates. The populist Arnie vs. the corporate power in it's most disturbing personification.

2) Being aware that the guy is not horrible enough to be killed without remorse in the last minutes they've transformed him into the mummy, covered in slime - not a pleasant sight, and we all wished the monster's screen life to be terminated ASAP.

3) He is coolly effecient, superbly informed and thinks strategically, he knows what it takes and is willing to pay the price. He is not interested in cheap gratification - he is on a mission of the global scale. Not a very endearing figure.

The "evil one" is opposed by Adam, the "natural man", the traditionalist, the defender of God's plan for mankind. The problem is that his traditionalism can not stand the test of having to admit to his daughter their dog is dead. Quenching the scruples, Adam is on his way to pet duplication outlet in the nearest mall. I think you have no problem to foretell what his reaction would be if something bad is to happen to his little girl. His chief difference from Drucker - besides IQ - is the amount of the information available and the time spent to process it in his head. All Adam's traditionalism is rooted in his ignorance. The body of thought and the attitude towards the uniqueness and physical immortality is based on the facts of life as they were known for the past thousands years. Now everything is changed and the new Prometheus arise to announce the New Word to the masses. He is ultimately practical, his methods are harsh but...show me a revolutionary in a velvet gloves. Drucker is as kind as he can afford to be.

Adam smashes the bad guy's laboratory with all it's staff but the replicated cat and dog are left to live at his home and the friendly clone is too good - exactly as good as Adam himself - to be taken to the 6th Day law's enforcers. The two Arnies are engulfed in the warm waves of pop paradise, there is no tomorrow, and today's perils are cancelled by the sheer goofiness of the weirdest happy end I've seen in years.

-" Hey, what about that deadly virus that will kill me in the next few years?" - says the clone. -" Relax, big guy - there is no virus. The medics told you, remember?" - - " Oh, yeah...Great! Wow! How come?" - - " I dunno."- - "Me neither" - - Such is the healing power of 100% pure cheesiness. And do you know they clone the helicopters too? How else we can explain that after one of 2 machines exploded Arnie still manage to present one of these to his ...twin (remember him putting the new logo over the old one?) and fly above the guy in his second copter. Of course he could buy for himself the new one...And to give his...well...brother the old. But no, that does not look like Arnie, not at all.

So do not spoil the pleasure, stop thinking. Find a theater with a great sound system and enjoy what is basically a good Arnie movie, be his guest in the neverland of simple answers to harsh questions.