Review of The Island (2005) by Richard Schickel for Time — 30 Aug 2008
For all the menace of its techno-prattle, its implicit boosts for humanism and its swell production design, the picture is finally a bore. Sci-fi was more powerful when its special effects were cheap and crude, its ideas simple but potently stated.
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This review of The Island (2005) was written by Richard Schickel and published by Time on 30 Aug 2008.
The Island has generally received positive reviews.
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