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Summary: important message, average performance
Review: Human cloning is a very real thing and this film is taking it (and it's implications) very seriously. That is a good thing and, if you chose to believe it (you should!), it carries a very important message - be careful what you wish for... However, although this is one of the better Arnold's latest films, his performance is constantly declining. On the other side, the film is full of splendid special effects and if you are into this kind of stuff, you will not be disappointed. See for yourself and if you don't like it, you can always get your money back!
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Summary: Could have been a classic if only...
Review: This film is not about cloning, we can already do that and it's a boring premis for a film. No, this movie is about the ability to store one's memmory/emotions/mind/Being onto a medium and writing it back into a body; the ability to live beyond the body and become immortal. In many ways like you can find in e.g. the Neuromancer trilogy by William Gibson, this is a modern classic SF theme and is handled in an interesing way from different perspectives. I enjoyed the doctors view (Duval) and liked the tycoon vs. tycoon bits. There is some good stuff here.Too bad they decided to say that it's all about cloning (hey, people will understand that, right?) and even worse that apart from the above EVERYTHING ELSE is a mess. Bad dialogues, a father who suddenly murders without any remorse, mindless technological gadget-madness. And why does every dumb SF-movie abuse the terms virtual and hologram? Also, the situation with two identical Arnie's is poorly resolved at the end. This movie has more good storyelements than Bladerunner but that movie benefitted from an inspired director and a good crew (and a director's cut). Here, everything seems to have gone downhill after the first draft. Sure, it still entertains, I enjoyed it, but most of all, it's a crying shame this movie didn't turn out better. This could have been a classic.
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Summary: thoughtful action film
Review: Pity poor Arnold Schwarzenegger - it seems like every time he makes a movie lately some writer goes ahead and implants a plot device that ends up making the film seem irrelevant and obsolete a mere six months after its release. In 1999's "End of Days," the premise involved the return of Satan on midnight, New Years Day 2000. Now in "The 6th Day," set some time in the near future, the movie opens up with a scene set at a game of the (now defunct) XFL. Luckily for Arnold, this gaffe plays only a minor part in the overall proceedings. Actually, taken as a whole, "The 6th Day" stands as one of the better sci-fi action flicks of the past several years. In both plot and style, it strikes echoes of "Total Recall," not a bad choice for imitation really since that was clearly one of Arnold's all time better vehicles. Like "Recall," "The 6th Day" is set in a future world where technology has begun to run amuck but which still shares enough of the basic values of our time to allow us to relate to the characters. Also, in "Recall," we were never quite sure if Arnold's character were really living out all the wild experiences of which he seemed to be a part, or whether he was merely dreaming it all as part of a virtual reality "vacation" courtesy of a high tech brain implant. In "The 6th Day," we are never quite sure whether Adam Gibson is a man struggling to reassert his place which seems to have been usurped by a clone - or whether the Adam we know and are following is actually the clone himself. Credit Cormac and Marianne Wibberley for composing a screenplay that is dense, clever and, for the most part, comprehensible and Roger Spottiswoode for keeping the action percolating along at a very fast clip. As with most of these movies, the first two thirds is the most impressive, as the details of the mind-bending plot reveal themselves one by one. We really have to think while watching this movie, not only about who is who or about what is real and what is fake, but also about some of the finer ethical issues that arise when science and technology seem to be outpacing mankind's moral ability to keep up with it all. It's not too often that we are asked to engage our brains in the context of an action film, so we'll take our pleasures where we can find them. For, alas, when all is said and done, "The 6th Day" is, after all, an action film, which explains the inevitable tendency for it to falter in its last third as ideas are replaced by hardware and as the "villains" fall into their predictable behavior patterns. Rest assured, once the guns start blazing, "The 6th Day" can't help but lose our interest. The film is also, unfortunately, saddled with Arnold himself who, although he can still pull off the action scenes well enough, simply cannot deliver on the many "emotional" moments that come his way in this film. Yet, why quibble when "The 6th Day" provides so much more food for thought than we are used to on a menu such as this one? I, for one, am thankful for the nourishment.
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Summary: WARNING: RCE version
Review: A warning to international buyers. This is an RCE DVD
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Summary: entertaining, but when you think about it....
Review: The 6th Day is definetly entertaining enough, but when you think about it, it just doesn't work. The first problem is in the very beginning. Why would drucker (tony goldwyn), one of the richest men in the world, with all these anti-cloning protests going on, walk around with only one body guard? It took one guy to kill everybody on the copter, what good was he? The fact is, it wouldn't be that easy. Also, after cloning Adam Gibson, couldn't they actually TELL that the dead pilot they had and the one that just came out of the tubes were just a little TOTALLY DIFFERENT? Maybe Drucker was still being cloned at the time, his henchmen obviously weren't cut out for the job. Another thing that drives me crazy is something all action movies contain. Adam Gibson, pilot, family man, someone who has probably never shot a gun before in his life, can break into the replacement technologies building, with all these guards TRAINED to shoot people if needed, and not get a scratch on him while killing off most of them? Ok, now what I thought was good about the movie. Although Arnold wouldn't be my first choice for that role, he didn't do a bad job. His little jokes were a bit overly thought out, but tolerable. Tony Goldwyn did a good job playing the bad guy...again. Lots of people say his acting is a bit stiff, but for this part I'd say it was fine. Of course Robert Duvall was good, he usually is. Michael Rooker got a couple laughs from me, as he seemed to be whining most of the time. all in all, i think The 6th Day is worth seeing.
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Summary: More depth than you think ...
Review: Uninspired action sequences, but raises some surprisingly interesting questions and dilemmas about cloning.
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Summary: They doubled Arnold, now they doubled their trouble!
Review: THE 6TH DAY is the story of a pilot, Adam Gibson (Schwarzenegger) in the year 2010, who is cloned by scientist Dr. Weir (Robert Duvall). After figuring out that the cloning was a mistake, Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) sends out assassins to capture Gibson. But now there are two Arnold's. Each one believes that they are in fact Adam Gibson. Now, after (their) family has been kidnapped, Gibson and his clone join forces to save (their) wife and daughter and save the world from an illegal cloning facility! MY REVIEW: "This movie isn't the best film from the SCHWARZENEGGER collection, but it is definetly worth seeing! Double SCHWARZENEGGER means a big action blockbuster! What was really interestingly cool about the film was it's realistic depiction of the future world- from being able to order milk over your refridgerator, to hollogram girlfriends! SCHWARZENEGGER's performance was very good this time around! He IS really an actor, showing in the past that his best performance is a cyborg from the future. Well, SCHWARZENEGGER is a caring, loving and simple- average husband and father. He's no John Matrix like in Commando or super-spy like in True Lies, he's realistic now (considering the storyline). The weapons in this film were the only things in this film that didn't seem real. LASERS??? Come on, that is really pushing it for 8 1/2 years. But overall, this film is fun, action loaded, funny, romantic and is a big twist a minute thriller that is fun to watch. So check this film out and wonder if you are, who you think you are...!"- MJV & the Movies
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Summary: This Film Deserved Better
Review: First I should say that although I appreciate and respect der Arnold's work, I am not someone who automatically runs out and sees every movie he's in. This review is not written out of hero-worship or whatever; I'm writing it because I think the film is underrated. "The Sixth Day" is an action/science fiction movie and like "The Matrix" or "Total Recall" it raises some interesting philosophical and ethical questions for those who want to deal with them. In a future society, pets can be cloned but cloning humans is strictly illegal. Nonetheless, Arnold's character is cloned without him knowing it by the covert wing of a large corporation. Because of the (highly plausible) plot mechanics, we don't know when we're dealing with the real Arnold or the cloned Arnold. And since the clone is a flesh-bearing human with the same thoughts, memories, skills, and ideals as the original, the audience as well as the cast is confronted with the question: can we really say the clone is inferior to the original in any meaningful way? I thoroughly enjoyed the futuristic design of this flick, which looks a lot like the present, but enhanced with the kind of technological goodies we've been promised for quite a while. Hovering jet-copters like the Osprey are so common (and so much safer!) that well-heeled folk use them for sport. Holographs are in every home. People can order groceries by touching the refrigerator. Cars can drive themselves on pre-determined routes. Guns a lot more deadly. Smoking is illegal, period. Cloned "Re-pets" have become so common that parents commonly switch dead pets with them in the middle of the day to avoid telling their kids the facts of life and death, at least for now. This mild satire on our materialistic, let's-not-look-at-death-it's-icky society offers welcome comic relief from the often gruesome action scenes, in which the malfeasant corporation tries its best to get rid of at least one of the Arnolds. Now, the idea of "is he or isn't he" is important throughout the movie but it is told with with skill, and I certainly don't think it is too challenging or outre for a mass audience to deal with. Indeed, "The Matrix" and "Total Recall" had far more difficult premises, and audiences loved those flicks. The action sequences were pretty standard action sequences, but not at all boring. The city scenes were absolutely beautiful, skyscrapers fronting on glaciated bays surrounded by evergreens (Vancouver, B.C., Canada). I thoroughly enjoyed this flick and believe it will stick with me as well as "Total Recall." It is not a routine flick. And to me, that's a compliment.
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Summary: Future concept doesn't have future, TERMINATOR is the movie
Review: I always like to watch Arnold because from the old days of Conan to this movie has been a long journey but sincerily I think that this movie remains half between a serious futuristic movie and collapse the other half in an action movie but: this is not Terminator! In Terminator the posibilities of a bad use of a technology remains always like a threat, in The 6th Day you can allways think: how convenient to have two Arnolds. At the end is a big collage of spots of the near future in some manner false but with some good action that excuse you of not to think about the moral of cloning.
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Summary: Arnold fans it's all yours
Review: If you're a fan of Arnold, you'll like this. I mean he's the same in his roles...and the action is the same...and the writing is the same. GIVE ME A BREAK!
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