on the island

well, nobody have to guess what i do last night. movie night of course. title? the island. a month ago, i watch the trailer for this movie and i thought, yeah, this looks like another action packed movie by michael bay. weird that he is not with his usual conterpart (that is jerry bruckheimer). branch out maybe. plus the movie got scarlett johansson (ahh…yummy) and ewan mcgregor (this dude is awesome). i was hoping to see any “bits” of johansson though but of course, the sensorship board might will take that joy from me. while i think this is just like any other action movie, boy was i wrong. okay, to ruin the suprise, here goes the plot. the year is on 2000 something where people cruise around on concept car that we see today (most of them are chevrolet) and use the latest gadget by cisco, microsoft, puma, samsung, etc. (ahh…product placement in movies are fun).

on a some secret bunker, there is a place/institute where human being are cloned or grown to be more exact (the matrix?). the purpose of the clones are for replacement parts or surrogical mother for their original host. for example, if the host have a liver disease, he/she can pay money to the institute to have them cloned and take the new liver from the clone after some years. all looks fine but some of the clones have defects, that is having the human nature to think and learn. at the institute, the clones are make belive that they are some survivors from the contamination or stuff like that. the island is some sort of lottery reward for the clones where they could move to a beautiful island and live a new life. that is bollocks. when a client demand a replacement parts from their clones, the clones are make belive that they are the chosen one as a lottery winner but actually their body will be hacked and parts like liver or heart is taken from the clone. so, when a clone escapes from the institute to go find their host, all hell broke loose. expect lots of explosion after that. woohoo…

i arrived late at the theater thinking i already miss some 10 minutes of the movie but they start it 15 minutes late. well, thats lucky. anywhoo, at the beginning of the movie, they put this disclaimer that this movie might be disturbing and not suitable for some people. i laughed with shimi thinking that is some funny sentences. but after viewing half of the movie, yes i agree. this movie is disturbing. but, don’t be afraid. just watch it and have fun!