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Summary: Very good film. Action packed and smart.
Review: I thought that this was a good film by Arnold. I have heard a lot of the critics saw that his career is in the toilet, but I beg to differ. This movie was very smart and had a well-written storyline. Also it was full of action and the special effects were out of this world. Back to the old days of The Terminator!
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Summary: UGHHH!
Review: What I thought was going to be an intelligent Arnold film turned out to be too long and dull. The story didn't develop until it was too late. Thank God Predator and Commando are on DVD
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Summary: Re-Terminator: Very good underrated film
Review: How can a mindless cringe prompter like "Stuart Little" rake in all-time level box office revenues, while this film ranks nowhere in sight?I saw "The Sixth Day" again the other night to double-check whether temporary delirium caused my excellent impression first time around. No mirage - just as good. Happy testimony from two co-watchers backs me up. One is a chick-flick lover/Arnie-loather who I had to plead with to give this film a chance. The other just could not understand how he hadn't heard about it before. "The Sixth Day" provides a detailed, sensitive and thoughtful presentation of the subject of cloning. At the same time, the film is action-packed, funny and replete with imaginative and quite plausible futuristic touches. Packaged in a tightly woven plot and screenplay. How many films have you seen recently combining so many great aspects? The film's world is one where the first human was imperfectly cloned in an experiment a decade ago and "sixth day laws" (per Genesis:....& the Lord created Man on the sixth day....) have since been put in place to prevent it happening again. But cloning is a legal fact of life in other ways: pet cloning has become a huge business, as has the cloning of human organs for transplant purposes. Prominent in the film are the "fundamentalists" who vehemently oppose these things and who suspect - correctly - that the featured company providing these services has secretly perfected and is practising the illegal art of human cloning. While the film's population at large believes that successful human cloning is still a myth and perhaps unachievable, the pet-cloning company owns a football team whose star player gets hugely smashed up in a scrimmage and yet shows up fresh as a daisy the following week. A fundamentalist claims to have shot dead the company's CEO, even as the fellow goes about business as usual. A congressman with a dying wife suddenly reverses his opposition to the sixth day laws. Unsuspectingly forced to navigate the imbroglio - in a fantastically cool remote control helicopter-airplane - is super-pilot Arnie. He delivers trademark good-hearted monotones as he terminates (and re-terminates!)the bad guys and tries to get his life and his wife back. In Sixth Day world a featureless full-grown human body cocooned in an oversized water-held embryo is called a "blank". All the blank needs to replicate a human is a dose of the individual's DNA plus a disk recording (called "simcording", or something like that)of the contents of the person's mind and memory. The simcording contents are extracted by funky-looking eyeglass styled cameras. "And with the DNA and the simcording", explains scientist Robert Duvall to a laser gun wielding Schwarzenegger, "we can produce a perfect clone in under two hours." Perfect except for the deliberately built-in defects. For, you know, business and contractual leverage..... Very different to Gattaca, but if that film stimulated your thinking this probably will too. Perhaps "The Sixth Day" could have been marketed much more effectively. Director Roger Spottiswoode also delivered "Air America", a film I saw long ago and (think I!?) liked, though few seem to remember it even though it features 2 fine actors in Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.
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Summary: Interesting without being insulting.
Review: "The 6th Day" is a futuristic action thriller set in the near future ("sooner than you think," say the informative opening captions), in a world where cloning of humans is against the law, yet one's everyday activity could include a trip to RePet, where your dead Chihuahua may be cloned back to life, or your daughter may purchase a Sim-Pal Cindy doll, a life-size toy that grows real hair and talks. In this world, people rely on computers moreso than the people of today, and the portrait is humorous and, at the same time, chillingly potent. But that's not all Roger Spottiswoode's action vehicle has to offer; in addition to its wonderful brand of comedic relief, the movie also packs a punch with plenty of thrilling set pieces, chases, and pyrotechnics featuring the all-time action great Arnold Schwarzenegger. The real shocker behind all of this is that its story, instead of being a mere structure for the array of stunts and thrillrides, actually carries a good deal of interesting twists and turns that are interesting without coming off as insulting to one's intelligence. Schwarzenegger stars as Adam Gibson, a family man who owns a small airport outside of the city where he and his wife and child live. Unlike his friends and those who have taken an extreme liking to the recent developments in genetics and technology, Gibson doesn't warm to the idea of cloned pets or life-like dolls; when the family dog takes ill and must be put down, he is hesitant to have it restored. As a lightening of the emotional load for his daughter, he buys her a doll; later that night, he returns home to find his dog very much alive again, and he, himself, inside his house blowing out the candles on his birthday cake. Soon, he is being pursued by a group of gun-toting thugs out to keep him from destroying their master plans of proving to the world that human cloning is a legitimate business. At the top of this are two men: wealthy visionary Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) and brilliant scientist Dr. Griffin Weir (Robert Duvall), who both believe in their theories to the extent that they break the law by producing human clones. At one point, we discover that Weir has gone so far as to clone his own wife, a deed that will have its repercussions once things start getting out of hand, and the race to prevent Gibson from spoiling their plans becomes heated. One of the good things about the movie is its director, who spends his time working story and style together without trying to outdo one or the other. Never once do we get the impression that Spottiswoode is trying to dazzle us with a vision of the future in which humans drive around in flying saucers instead of cars; no, the world as seen in "The 6th Day" could very well be the near future as it so foresees it. The humor that lies with the inclusion of the Sim-Pal Cindy doll, as well as a series of questions that takes the place of a 9-1-1 operator, is superbly funny, yet also carries a certain degree of unsettling realism that resonates from the fact that we, as a society, are pretty much headed towards. Spottiswoode also avoids the usual pitfalls of action and science fiction, many of which come back to that fine line between style and substance; here, the two find a common nesting ground. The set pieces are a combination of elements that include standard car pursuits crossed with frenzied, quick-cut pacing, all of which adds to a frenetic pacing that keeps the material moving at a brisk pace. The story itself merits the rather-lengthy running time, keeping us involved by bringing us from one subplot to the next without overlapping too many at one time. It all leads up to a standard, shoot-'em-up-blow-it-up ending that we know is coming, but fits the material. And then we have Schwarzenegger, who is at the top of his game as a father and a hero rolled into one. The hard edge that has become is trademark is slipping away with his youth, no doubt, but his presence is still strong, as is his humor, which manages to get the film's biggest laughs. At one point, when confronted by two security guards while escaping with his family, he says, "I don't want to expose my daughter to any kind of graphic violence. She already gets enough of that from the media." This is the kind of movie where people come out of the theater and start arguing over its ideas. "The 6th Day," in all its visual and intense glory, manages to keep us involved with the material by incorporating a story that is thought-provoking and eerie. It's also a great Arnie vehicle, replete with plenty of star power and thrills, and while the presence of a baffling plot twist in the beginning of the movie's third act (is the Adam Gibson we have come to believe as real actually the clone as Drucker says?), you can bet it qualifies as terrific entertainment.
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Summary: 6th Day Laws Passes: Human Cloning Banned
Review: Ok, ok, so I know most people want medical, dental... but Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) is giving his employees more than that. And it's not because he's humanitarian, he's just protecting his interests. And his wallet. Let's just say that when one of the players of his football team gets injured, he order his henchmen to kill him so they can later replace him for a new, healthy clon. So when Drucker thinks his pilot Adam Gibson (Schwarzenegger) is dead, he clones him immediately. Bad move! It was all a big misunderstanding, but there are now two Adam Gibson on the city. Since cloning humans is illegal, Drucker sends his henchmen to eliminate the one Gibson that knows the truth. I know, I know, sounds like a basic Schwarzenegger movie, and yes, it is. But is also way better than a lot of the sci-fi movies I've seen lately. And besides, you can see that Schwarzenegger's acting is a little better since he had his heart surgery. His character is a very old-fashioned man against all this new technology that experiments with life. It's not a very deep and profound movie, but it has great moments. Of course, I don't think this is one that movie critis will love, but I do love it. We know Schwarzenegger and Stallone were great during the 80s, but their careers went south recently. Now Schwarzenegger seems to be back since End Of Days and he seems to have a decent audience. And so far, his movies are not that bad. Not too bad at all.
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Summary: Good Arnie Vehicle
Review: I saw this film directly after seeing Pearl Harbour and by comparason it appeared a work of towering genious. Probably this swayed me a bit and the film seemed well written, well paced and it also had some interesting ideas and plot switches. Arnie's previous outing the End of Days was a bit below par and this was a return to a good action yarn. Unfortunately Arnie is getting on a bit now. He must be in his mid 50's by now. His face in close ups looks a bit on the hagged side. He does not seem to have quite the stage prescence that he had in earlier films like Predator and the Terminator movies. Despite all that the film has an interesting plot. Arnie finds that he has been cloned and then is hunted down by the orgnisation which has made the clone. The key to action adventure films is to have a convincing villain. This film has a number including a number of trained killers who have the power to come back from the dead. The only weak bit in the film is Arnie's acting. In his best film he gets through on grunting and charisma. In other films such as Kindergarten cop and Twins his bad acting wasn't a problem as it blended into the comedy. In this film the scences in which he "acts" are a bit painfull. Never the less after watching Pearl Harbour and Moulin Rouge this seemed to be a towering near Shakespearian work briming with ideas.
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Summary: ANOTHER 2 HOUR FUN RIDE IN THE SCHWARZENEGGER ROLLER COASTER
Review: The movie is not a crowning achievement, I'll tell you that, but it is fairly good, good old Arnold action, finally the cloning theme is exploited by filmmakers, the actors are not terrible, the actually do good, sure, not to run for best performance, but again, this is an Arnold film, just sit and relax while he gets the bad guys, plus he is getting out of his macho killing machine shell, he is now a family man with feelings, thing that makes Arnold better, he has tried to do different roles, different approaches, like in Jingle all the Way, Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Batman and Robin, and although all of these may not be good, at lest he is diverse, unlike Stallone, which will always be a killing machine, with no feelings, or a very expressive boxer, never a family fan, an please, let's hope he never gets to be one. But back to the movie, the good thing is that it is a new topic, so is not the old boring thing, plus, the soundtrack is fairly good, Trevor Rabin is not bad, also, the DVD has fairly good features, trailers for some movies beside this one, a some sort of featurette, talent files, a commentary, an isolated music score, better that what Paramount can come up with, plus, the sound and the picture are stunning, a great job of the DVD producers, also, the RCE, region coding enhancement was not a problem for my free-region DVD player. Some say that this movie about bad clones, is itself a bad clone of Total Recall, sure, the movies are very much a like, perhaps too much a like, if you have seen both you know what I mean, and sure, Total Recall is much better, I don't why, probably because it came first, and because action movies from Arnold were newer when Recall came out, about 10 years ago, but what the heck, this film is not BAD at all, if you are a fan of Arnold, or of action/sci-fi movies, or you are interested in cloning, the movie will suit you quite well.
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Summary: The 6th Day
Review: This is a sci-fi movie. Cloning animals is common but cloning of human beings is illegal. After ordering a hit on helicopter pilot Arnold Schwarzenegger, megalomaniac tycoon Goldwyn has a copy made; now there are two Arnolds on the loose, seeking revenge.---Very good movie---
Buy this one
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Summary: 6th Day- Great Movie about the Future
Review: I loved this movie. It was excellent. One of Arnold's greatest performances ever. Not like Terminator movies or Predator, but better than most things he makes. The only thing I can say I didn't like about this movie was the way it started. I didn't see any point of putting that thing going on in the football field. That was totaly pointless. It had no connection wih the movie really. If I were able to edit parts out, I would definitely remove that one. I can remember the last time I watched this I also watched Commando on the same day. That was good, but not great. The only acton movie he made I really ddn't like was Eraser. I don't think I'll ever be watching that again. This was an excellent story though. The real characer never really got in any danger. I thoguht it was strange how they had you thinking the clone was the real character and the real guy was the duplicate. I kinda could figure that out that the one going around tryin to figure everything out had to be the clone. The one they were trying to make you think was thedplicate just seemed too normal to be a fake. I do liek it that in this duplicate story the two got along when they found out about eachother. Most duplicate stories the real guy and cone become enemies and try to take out the other. Like knocking the real gu out, trapping him in somewhere, then the duplicate goes outliving the real guy's life. This story doesn't do that. They find eachoter and actully help eachother out with their problems. The real charcter is able to get past all the security systems when going to rescue his family from the baddies cause he had the duplicate destroy all the cameras. But I did like this movie and thought all the ideas about the future were great. I watched this movie twice back in the summer. And I could see it again somtime in the future. The future! Get it! Heh heh! I've had an obsession with views of the futre since BTTF 2. Now I see movies about the future with ideas of a post-apocalyptic world where everything has been trashed out.
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Summary: Nice twist. Highly entertaining
Review: Typical of Arnold Schwarzeneger films, this one is full of blasts & actions, with Arnold always managing to survive from his attackers & rising out triumphant in the end. There is just a small twist which I found a big plus in the plot. Ending quite predictable but it made the entire film a 'feel-good' story. The concept of cloning is highly debatable. & though scientists mean well, the entire process is very risky when it falls into the wrong hands.
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