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The Island (2005)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C+ Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "Hardly paradise." more... D+ Boston Globe Wesley Morris "...frequently thrilling, completely bananas demolition derby..." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...while the climax satisfies the requirements of the second half of the story, it leaves a few questions unanswered." more... B   Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt "...as fond as I am of escapist junk, and as much as there is to admire in The Island, in the end it's just a big, loud mess." more... C   E! Online "Spare yourself--and your clone for that matter--from taking a trip to The Island." more... D   Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "... ends, in a hail of product placement, with a dumb bang." more... C   filmcritic.com Christopher Null "...while The Island isn't exactly a great film, the case for (Scarlett) Johansson as action starlet has been made, handily." more... B- Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "Reasonably diverting..." more... B- New York Post Kyle Smith "Some of the plot links are spongy, but the central idea plays out with much wit." more... B   New York Times A.O. Scott "Michael Bay's lavish, exhaustingly kinetic film is smarter than you might expect, and at the same time dumber than it could be." more... B- ReelViews James Berardinelli "...there's enough fun to be had that it's almost possible to ignore the stupidity of the story and the cavity that replaces character development." more... B- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "I've elevated the rating by half a star because Scarlett Johansson is a luminous camera subject that even Bay can't sully..." more... C- San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...on its own terms, The Island is just fine." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...it does its job without insulting our intelligence or unpleasantly jangling our nerves..." more... B- USA Today Claudia Puig "Possessing no new ideas, it reworks and borrows from such films as Blade Runner, The Matrix and Logan's Run." more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)