[Film] The Island

*** (out of 5)

A really nice opening 30 minutes, completely ruined by the idiots at Dreamworks who cut the trailer. Then we have about an hour of top-notch, state-of-the-art action sequences as the movie morphs from science fiction to a really entertaining chase film.

But it all falls apart at the end, as the scriptwriters and Michael Bay replace smarts with spectacle, turn Sean Bean into an action villain and lose all of the ironic humour that was running through the rest of the film. However I did like the very last two minutes.

Conclusion: The Island totally had the audience for three-quarters of its running time. Then it didn't. Amazing score and production design, though.