NEW YORK: 'The Island' must surely be Michael Bay's quietest film yet. For there have been no rumors, gossip, high-flying interviews or even romance between co-stars a la Pitt and Jolie, that have accompanied the pre-release time period.
So quiet has the media been that Bay laments that this could hurt the film, "I've heard so many people say, 'God, I never heard about this movie,' and then in the next sentence they'll say, 'I love this movie,' You see, what's going on in the studio system ... we're making reruns of bad TV shows now. I think it's a confusing time in Hollywood," said the ace director of blockbuster films like "Armageddon," "Pearl Harbor" and "Bad Boys." But the movie is now being talked about for its thrilling action sequences as well as breath-taking graphics.
The film revolves around Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson who are living their life in a facility that is guarded more jealously than the Area 51. McGregor is Lincoln Six Echo and Johansson is Jordan Two Delta. The sexes are kept separate in this facility and only get to see each other occasionally that too for few brief moments. The trouble starts when Lincoln starts to develop more than a passing interest in the sexy Jordan. And then the truth comes crashing down; Lincoln and Jordan are clones of their human counterparts and are being kept alive in case their masters need any organs that can be harvested from them.
It also emerges that people on this facility are being given libido suppressants to keep them from mating with each other, which would be catastrophic. Lincoln plots and escapes from the facility with Jordan into the wide, bad real world. The story revolves around what happen to these clones out in the real world.
Commenting on how it felt being directed by Michael Bay, Scarlett Johansson said, "Michael was asking a lot of you. He was asking you to be so physically active and not just that, he's got this huge imagination and you're just like, 'Where does this fit into the movie?' and he's just like, 'Play along. I promise it will all fit together.' It was exhausting, but it was huge. A huge experience." The film itself brings to fore the ethics behind cloning even for research purposes.
But sci-fi fans on the Internet are comparing it to film "The Clonus Horror" that was released in 1979. However, this particular film has got all the ingredients of a Michael Bay classic and we won't be surprised if it turns out to be a grand winner in the summer.
