Day 209: The Island

Directed By- Michael Bay

Writer(s)- Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman, Robert Orci

Starring- Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Bean, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Clarke Duncan, Steve Buscemi

Critics Review- " [Bays] best film since The Rock."- Kyle Smith  "New York Post"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 40%  Audience- 67%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 4 1/2 stars 

My Review- 

This has to be my favorite Michael Bay film since The Rock, so I agree with the critic above 100%. This was not too over the top like Bay's previous films which have been the Transformers trilogy, and it actually had a good story line. It had that Logan's run feel too it which I already watched for this list, especially with the ending I saw it had a sort of Logan's Run feel to it, which grabbed my attention even more once I started watching this movie. It has a lot of really good actors as well, and I did not know that Sean Bean was in the film, which made it even cooler once I saw his character come on screen. Like all of Bay's films this had a lot of action in it most of it over the top as always, however in this film I liked the action more in this one then some of his others. When it came time to reveal what "the island" really was I was in shock and then I felt bad for the people that lived there, (and I won't spoil anything for anyone if you have not seen this movie). I will say this, it is a great story from the two people from the people who would later write Star Trek and the Transformers films, I would like to see them write more films like this or close to this type since I can see now they can write more then just robots fighting. If you have not seen this film, I suggest you watch it since it was one of Michael Bay's better films. One thing I would have like to see more of was Djimon Hounsou, since I think he is a good actor and he can make any character he is likable even if he is the villain or in this case the bad/good guy. After watching this movie I noticed that Sean Bean can be play a bad guy well, sometimes better then the good guy. Like I said before this is worth the watch to see the Michael Bay can make more grounded films where the story is actually good and the actors are likable.