Hey folks... Harry here... What follows here are 5 reviews from our spies at last night's THE SIXTH DAY test screening.... Now the film is in it's primordial stages of creation... Spotiswoode is checking to see what is working and what isn't.... and from the 5 reviews... I can tell that some people really dig it... and some think it's middle of the road and at least one thought it was a complete waste of celluloid. So... When you have a wildly divergent set of reviews like this... what do you do? What are you to think? Well... The really negative review by Stimpy, up first, well... this guy could be that person who you most don't trust as a reviewer... or he could be exactly like you. Same goes for the positives... these are just random readers that got into the screening... The other point is... the score isn't in place, the effects are mainly temp effects with wireframes and half-rendered moments and the editing isn't quite there... In otherwords... the movie has a long way to go till completion... Right now... the film sounds like it could be a good bubblegum Arnold action flick.... not great, but good... Hopefully with what Roger learned from this screening, these and other online reviews and just observing the audience he has the info to make this the best Arnie flick in quite some time... We'll see... BEWARE OF SPOILERS... Nearly all the reviews have major spoilers... though I have edited some of the harshest spoilers out just so the twists aren't all given away....
"Stimpy" here.
Saw the new Arnold movie "The 6th Day" yesterday at a "focus group" screening. This is an important note as some things about the movie may change depending of what the focus group says as a whole and a lot of the FX were of the "temp" variety. Anyway, on to the film.
Movie takes place in a undetermined near future (looks just like today except for some tacky props, set dressing and cars, in fact, it looks just like Vancouver). Arnie plays a happily married ex military pilot now running a heliskiing operation in an unnamed Pacific Northwest city (like Seattle or say, Vancouver) with his womanizing buddy Hank.
Arnie returns home one night (on his birthday)only to find out he's been replaced by a clone (Cloning pets is a big business in the future while cloning humans is banned by the so called "6th day" laws - see Genesis). Before you can say "Omigod, there's 2 Arnies, does that mean he got $40 million?", thugs show up trying to kill him and the chase is on.
Seems an "evil corporation" headed by Tony Goldwyn (the bad guy from "Ghost"), has been secretly cloning humans and Arnie was mistakenly cloned (they thought they were cloning his partner Hank who unbeknowst to Arnie has been killed in a corporation related assasination). Realizing their mistake, the corporation sends a team of killers to ice Arnie so their illegal activities won't be discovered. A running bit through the movie is no matter how many times Arnie kills the thugs, including a nasty if ineffectual hitwoman, they keep coming back as clones.
After several weak assed action scenes (generic car chases,hand to hand fights, shootouts, etc), Arnie finds a kindly scientist (Robert Duvall obviously cashing a cheque in an extended cameo)whose work has been ursurped by the corporation who explains why the bad guys are after him. Arnie manages to steal a "syncording", proof that humans are being cloned.
Arnie also confronts his double. Instead of the "arnie vs arnie" knock down, drag out fight we've been hoping for/speculating about on the internet, the two team up in a sort of "bad joke-buddy cop-I-Don't-like-you" way to stop the bad guys who've resorted to kidnapping Arnie's wife and daughter.
More weak assed action follows, including the lamest gunfight on record (everyone must have gone to "Star Wars Stormtrooper Academy" to be this bad with a laser gun) culminating in a fight in the clone lab and an overlong badly cut chopper (it's a funny looking CG chopper/jet thingy that supposed to be futuristic but looks like a reject from the old "Thunderbirds" show) building rooftop gunfight. More bad marksmanship ensues. You can be sure this ain't the "Die Hard" finale rooftop scene.
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That dull thud you heard was the IQ level of this movie.
This is smelly bad, mystery science theater bad, ripped off from "total recall" bad. It reeks of cheapness with the future shown is EXACTLY like today except for some awfully fake looking paper mache set dressings. The bad guys are generic (the hit gang includes "henry:portrait of a serial killer" Michael Rooker in a wasted role) and pretty useless. This if ARNOLD here, the man who beat, lets see, The Devil, the Predator, the T1000 and managed to emerge from Last Action Hero intact. There's no wit here, no intellegence, nor any hint that the filmakers (this mess was directed by Roger "Tomorrow Never Dies" Spotiswoode; obviously we need to give the Bond stunt team more credit judging from this) even tried or cared for that matter.
Characters are cardboard. You don't care about anyone and zero character arcs exist. The bad guys are evil for the sake of being evil and it's all played completly straight. If they'd gone for a Austin Powers tongue in cheek tone, it might have worked (at least it would have been a different take on an Arnie film).
Even the action is of the "bad cable movie" variety. Dukes of Hazzard car chases and bad laser gun fights are not what I'm paying 8 bucks for. After the action in "Saving Private Ryan", "Gladiator" and "Matrix", Sony must think we're all on crack to buy this as "exciting".
The chopper/jet looks like its made from plastic (yeah it was a CG temp but the "real" prop looks just as fake; and who the hell paints a chopper mint green and bright lemon yellow anyway except maybe a color blind art director) and the so called climax is about as exciting as a Rugrats cartoon.
Rumour is this baby cost $80 million. Trust me: that money isn't up on the screen and sure wasn't put into the "script"(if there was one). Arnie got 20 so where'd the other $60 million go?? What the hell was the studio thinking?? Sony, cut your losses and go directly to cable or video with this one. No wonder Arnie signed for T3 without Cameron after months of saying he wouldn't. He's gonna need a MAJOR comeback vehicle when this turkey is let out of the coop. Barring a major recut (and maybe another $80 million) this one's head for the cinderheap of bad movies.
The worst thing about this movie is the rumour that Touchstone/Bruckheimer is waiting to see how this movie does before greenlighting the futuristic clone themed "Gemini Man". THAT one has a solid script (at least compared to the crayon doodlings of this one) and would love to see it get made (Harrison Ford anyone?). If any execs from Disney are reading this, please don't pull the plug on "Gemini" because of this waste of celluloid. Remember, "Big" was released after the other 3 bad body switch movies and was a HUGE hit.
Stimpy
Here's TJ MACKEY with his review... no spoilers and pretty positive though not glowing... read on...
Hey Kids
Got the chance to see a screening of the new Schwartzineger movie yesterday. Its called the 6th day. The movie is pretty much a movie about cloning and the interference of science in the natural flow of life. I can tell you right away that this movie is better than some (Eraser,Last Action Hero) and not as good as others (T2 Total Recall). The movie was not completely finished which was somewhat humorous watching fuzzy unrendered helicopters fly around.
The Plot takes place ten years in the future where human cloning has been band, but there are certain power hungry bad guys doing it anyway. The source of comedy comes from some of the new technology displayed in the first half of the movie I wont give anything away , but Ill say this much :cyber fucking has a promising future... anyhow there are some mix ups with Arnold and through some mistaken actions Arnold is cloned. He then goes out to find out the truth of what's happening. The movie includes a pod racing type scene and from what I can tell will be pretty cool once it's finished. Also a pretty bitchin car chase scene near the begging. The film does a pretty good job at restraining from too many cliches. The movie is full of pretty good laughs and some great action. I wont say anything about the ending ,but it brought back memories of Fight Club as odd as that sounds.
Final Word fans of Arnold will like it fans of sci-fi will probably get a kick out of it Good Fun nothing ground breaking
Peace
TJ Mackey
Hey folks, Harry here with StorminCow's review of THE SIXTH DAY... his is the least enthusiastic of the bunch... feeling it was too derivative and that they spent too much time explaining things and not enough time doing the bang bang stuff.... He doesn't have too many spoilers... so read on...
Hey Harry...Long time reader, first time poster, yadda yadda yadda.
I found myself in the sneak preview of Auhnold's new movie coming out in November "The Sixth Day" last night outside of L.A. Quite a few people were there, but I didn't see any reviews on the site this morning, so I thought I'd drop you a line.
It was another one of those "not quite finished" prints with low-res special effects and stuff, but it was looking pretty close to final.
Set in the near future, the big German guy plays a pilot of a tourist helicopter/jet thing that takes snowboarders quickly to the top of a mountain near Los Angeles. His pilot buddy Hank (played well by Michael Rapaport) convinces him to take the afternoon off to go check out a cloning place that clones dead animals so kids don't have to deal with death (His daughter's dog died that morning). The rich client that is flying that day (Tony Goldwyn playing Micheal Drucker) is the head of the same cloning company. After landing at the top of the mountain, Hank, the big cheese, and a couple of body guards are killed by a religious extremist in a statement against cloning. It seems difficult to grasp, and...well...it is.
It turns out that Drucker is the third or fourth clone of the original Drucker, and to keep the company (and his life) going, he is cloned again. To keep the incident quiet, the company also clones the pilots, mistakingly thinking Arnold was there as well. When Arnold gets home from the pet place he finds his clone already there.
The company quickly realizes their mistake and goes after the cloned Arnold so no one knows they are cloning humans as well as pets, because it's against the law. Anyway, now that the crazy almost believable but not quite story line is set up, the rest of the movie is the typical Arnold out for revenge to get his life back scenario with a car chase and a couple of gun fights.
Although it was halfway acceptable as a mundane action movie, it certainly didn't live up to past Arnold movies, and it continues his downhill slide. Fans of True Lies looking for the same are not gonna find it with The Sixth Day. The acting is weak except for Robert Duvall's small role as the lead scientist for the lab. The gunfire looks way too much like the blasters in Star Wars. And with such a complicated plot, they have to spend more time explaining stuff than blowing things up.
That's how I see it anyway.
STORMINCOW
Harry here... and this Rat Bastard dug the hell out of the movie... beware of spoilers... there's quite a few... but HE enthuses quite a bit about the film...
My man Harry,
How do you do? Just wanted to drop you a quick line on a test screening that I happened to be a part of this evening. I have managed to get a look at a test screening of a movie you may have heard of called The Sixth Day. This is my first review, and the first time I feel I've had anything to contribute to your funny little freak circus here. I'm a little short of sleep, but here goes:
I was apprehensive about this movie going in-I warn you in advance I am a big fan of Arnold's. The good stuff, mind you, not his alleged comedies, and certainly not that latest travesty called End of Days. Christ, I've seen better film on teeth. So you can see that pairing an aging action star with Roger Spottiswoode, the director of such fine films as Turner and Hooch, Air America, and Stop!Or my Mom Will Shoot may seem like a recipe for disaster.
Wrong. I dug this movie big time. And let me tell you why. This is the Arnold that's been gone for so long. He is in fine form, with the blowing away the bad guys and the one liners and such. This is a return to a kind of movie I thought Arnold would not do again, let alone do it so well.
I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me give you a quick rundown of the story. Spoiler warning if you don't like that sort of thing blah blah plot points blah blah don't read blah blah. OK. It's the future, and all kinds of cloning experiments are done with animals, but because people are jittery about multiple humans running about, cloning humans is illegal. Arnold is a pilot for this company that caters to thrillseekers(snowboarders and such), and as it is set in the future about 25 years or so from what I could tell, he flies this bad ass helicopter/jet plane thingy. If you've seen the trailer, you've seen these military looking aircraft. They don't look as videogame-fake in the movie, but you could tell that the special effects weren't quite done yet. Anyhow, due to a case of mistaken identity, Arnold is cloned. It's rather hard to explain why without ruining the movie for everyone, so I will just say that an evil billionaire (is there any other kind?) who is behind the experimentation with human cloning decides that one of the Arnolds must go, and proceeds to send his incompetent henchmen(are there any other kind?) to rub one of them out. Either one. Doesn't matter. A few car chases, shootouts, and special effects later, the two Arnolds team up to give the snake his comeuppance.
Granted, I have simplified huge parts of the movie, but only cause I did not want to give too many of the plot twists away, and there are a couple. You will probably figure them out, but they're there. More than the usual Arnold film, anyway. Another reason my plot summary is so short is so I can talk about what excited me the most about this picture-the production design did a top notch job showing what our near future will be like. This movie struck me as across between the Fugitive and Total Recall. You see a lot of billboards, ads and TV commercials in this movie that reminded me a lot of Total Recall and even the satire of RoboCop. Arnold spends a lot of time running from the team of hit-people assigned to waste him, so you have that suspense thing going pretty well through the whole film. A lot of the trademark Arnold humor gets thrown in, and I'm all for that. All in all, a great surprise. I still had the bad taste of End of Days in my mouth when I saw this, but The Sixth Day won me over, slowly but surely.
Not to say the film is flawless, or completely original for that matter. When I say this film is Total Recall meets the Fugitive, I mean it sometimes literally. When Arnold eludes his captors by jumping off a cliff in front of a dam, I think, "Hey didn't Harrison Ford do this in a movie once?" And when he wakes up, groggy with amnesia in the back of a cab, I'm looking for the Jonnycab driver from Total Recall. Like I said, sometimes derivative. And the ending seemed a bit on the lame side to me. Without saying too much, if I knew there was a clone of myself running around, I would not feel comfortable with sending him riding off into the sunset to seek his fortune. I'd smoke the sumbitch. All in all, a very good popcorn flick, re-establishing Arnold's cred as king of the sci-fi action movie.
So, to summarize, if you thought Total Recall was one of Arnold's best movies(I am in this group), you must rush out and see this movie opening weekend. Have no doubts, my friends, Arnold is back. If you are the type that likes to snipe at Ah-nult about his age, funny accent, or his string of flops, feel free to do it below. After all, it's a free country. But if you thought that Arnold couldn't do another big action movie with a lot of gunplay in the Politically Correct age we live in, drop a few dollars in November and see the film. A lot of people are going to be surprised by how much they like this one. That's it and that's all. Since all the groovy spy names are taken, you can call me Rat Bastard.
Thanks Harry!
Folks... Harry here again... Dr Not's review is an EXTREME SPOILER FILLED TEXT... I only recommend it for folks that want NO SURPRISES at all.... The reviewer liked the film, but says it isn't TRUE LIES good.... If you must read his opinion... read only the last paragraph.... scan quickly all the way to there.... BEWARE CERTAIN SPOILER DOOM TO FOLLOW...
Hey, Harry,
I am an avid reader of your site. I thought I would chime in with my first review. I had the chance to pick up a couple of screening passes for the new Arnold film "The 6th Day" while attending "Hollow Man" the other day. Here goes with my spoiler filled review............................
My wife and I ventured out to The Block, a trendy, full of neon and eateries yuppie trap that sports a 30 screen multiplex. It is in the heart of Orange County, California...a land populated with mouse parks and berry farms. I think I recall you went there if I am not mistaken. Anyhoo....we arrived early to find a gigantic line waiting for us. I guess nothing draws them in like a free Schwarzennegger film. I knew there was no theatre big enough to hold everyone....I was sure we were to be turned away. Looks like our friends at Columbia had other ideas....they ran the film on two screens! Can't recall that ever being done before! They must have really wanted an across the board review! We took our seats and looked around for any sight of the Austrian one....looks like he decided to sit this one out. The film started promptly at 7:30 PM after the usual "....this is a working print with no credits or final music, etc." speech given by someone who obviously gave this out three times prior this week. You know the phony survey chick smile and everything. The only thing missing were her American Airlines wings and tiny hat. Here's the skinny on the film itself....THE 6TH DAY - the latest action whiz-banger directed by Roger Spottiswood and starring Arnold himself. The film opened with both Phoenix and Columbia logos...so much for no credits! It did not have any formal credits, though. It looked like the film was about 80% finished..the color was off in some scenes, the cgi effects of a helicopter were very video game looking...I almost expected Lara Croft to jump out and help him at any moment! I can only hope the musical score was temporary. It was very forgettable. If it was a recycled one I could not tell you where it was from. Now onto the story..........spoiler filled!
The film opens with a short sequence explaining the steps of cloning. It starts with the sheep Dolly and the map of the human DNA that was recently completed. A nice realistic touch to the film. It moves on with a bit about how the first human clone was a vegetable and was put to death. A law was enacted - "The 6th Day" law that bans human cloning.
It then cuts to a hardcore football game. Lots of jump cuts and blurry motion. To show you that it's the future there is a huge floating head in the middle of the stadium that is supposed to be a hologram of Johnny Phoenix, the most popular athlete in the league - and the first player to make $300 million a season! The helmets are slightly redone to feature a visor that covers their eyes and shows the display of the game score and plays. The coaches on the sidelines transmit plays to the players via computer. Johnny is sacked in a play and injured quite badly. He is rushed to an ambulance and attended by Michael Rooker, the chief thug in the film - think Michael Ironside in "Total Recall" a film that this one has close ties to. Rooker examines Johnny on the way to the hospital and sees that the injuries are severe. He calls his boss, Tony Goldwyn, the major villain of the film and informs him. Goldwyn decides he'd rather not pay that much money to a vegetable player and has Rooker pull the plug on him. Johnny flatlines right in the back of the ambulance...........
Arnold is introduced as Adam (Get the Eden reference?). He's a family man with a wife and two daughters. Today is his birthday and his wife gives him a half smoked cigar...apparently a big deal since smoking is illegal! On his bathroom mirror - where he shaves with an antique razor, he hates most progress - he sees a news report that Johnny Phoenix is okay and will be back in the game shortly. Adam gets cozy with his wife and is about to get an early birthday present when his daughter busts in and hits him right in the crotch with a doorknob. Over breakfast his daughter begs him for a new virtual doll that is on the market. Adam then discovers that his dog is sick. We are then treated to a commercial for a company called "REPET" - they clone animals so children can have life long pets. The commercial is almost an exact copy of the RECALL commercial from "Total Recall". You will definitely be singing "Recall, Recall, Recall." His wife decides to take the dog to the vet today. Adam gets picked up for work by his co-worker Michael Rappaport - looking a little heavy - success has gone to his stomach. Adam owns a helicopter charter service that takes skiers to the top of a snowy peak. Adam shows off a new remote control for the chopper - it all but flashes REMEMBER ME on the screen as we get long lingering looks at it. They drop off a shady looking skier and then have a really good 2 chopper chase through the mountains. The chopper blades fold back into wings and the airships really soar! The cgi was incomplete but look to be very good when finished. They return to find they have to be tested for drugs in order to ferry a customer to the top. They have their blood and eyes checked by a strange device. Adam's wife then calls and says the dog is dead. She wants the dog cloned...he's against it. Rappaport volunteers to take the rich guy to the mountain while Adam goes to see about the dog. The rich customer turns out to be Goldwyn - when they land on the mountain the shady looking skier from earlier kills Goldwyn and Rappaport. There is a big jump edit in the film here...probably something that will be fixed in post. Adam wakes up at the mall. There is no explanation why he is asleep. It's very odd....but comes up later. Adam goes to Repet and has what appears to be a regular conversation with the salesman. He then opts to buy his kid the virtual doll instead. Wait till you see this thing...it has got to be the creepiest looking thing in years. Words cannot describe how eerie this doll appears.
Adam arrives at his house to find the party in full swing. He peeks inside the window and sees HIMSELF AT THE TABLE! He freaks out and is about to enter the house when he is approached by two thugs, an idiot with facial piercing and a real hot goth chick. They beat him up and try to kill him. He escapes and jumps into his Cadillac. The bad guys give chase. This is a pretty good set piece..at one point they drive right through a house. There is a bit of nonsense with the doll - it gets old pretty quick. Adam evades them for a bit - the chase is pretty choppy. At some points the pursuing van - which looks a little like the A-Team with that red stripe - just appears alongside him after being gone for a few seconds. The goth chick ends up in the car with him and is thrown out to her death. The idiot with the piercing is thrown from the van and Adam runs him over for good measure. They are both quite dead. The van, driven by Rooker, chases the Caddy off the road and it plunges down a cliff into a river. Rooker finds Adam hanging from a broken fence and shoots at him. Adam lets go and plunges into the water - very much like "The Fugitive." Rooker collects his dead thugs and drives off to the Clone Lab. Robert Duvall finally makes his appearance as the man who is responsible for the cloning process himself. Goldwyn is the benefactor and he shows up at a benefit with Duvall looking very much alive. There is some nonsense with a Senator's kid that goes nowhere and a strange scene between Duvall and his wife. Rooker arrives with the dead thugs and they clone them back into existence. We see a very cool vat full of "Plain" bodies - they are implanted with info and reborn as the thugs. The goth chick comes back with her hair and make up normal - she makes a funny comment about how expensive and time consuming her hair is. For some reason the idiot is cloned and has all the same piercings and everything. It takes the goth a couple of scenes to get back to her pale self.
Adam surfaces on the bank of the river and goes to the police. He tries to file a report but is met with resistance to his story. They have a very funny scene with a virtual lawyer that becomes a shrink when Adam talks about the clone. The police detain Adam and call the clone lab. The bad guys race to the station. Adam breaks a wall mounted television and goes through the wall to escape. He meets up with the pierced idiot and kills him again. Very funny. Rooker shows up and tries to tell the authorities that it is just a minor wound - then the head flops backwards. Very funny, again.
Adam goes to Rappaport's apartment and there is a funny bit with a virtual sex chick that must be seen to be appreciated. He explains to Rappaport what is going on and they go to Adam's house. They find the clone Adam smoking the cigar and making out with the wife. Adam has the chance to kill the clone but can't bring himself to do it. His daughter shows up and he must take her inside. Rappaport stays behind and watches the couple have sex in the back of a mini van. Very funny. Adam puts his daughter to bed and sees the thugs show up outside. He answers the door and pretends to be the clone. Very clever scene.
They go back to Rappaport's house and try to regroup. The shady skier shows up and kills Rappaport and declares him a clone. Adam fights back and wound the skier. He chases him out to a parking garage. The skier drives a beat up new version of the bug. Very fitting for an enviromental wacko of the future. The skier is mortally wounded and shoots himself in the head as the thugs arrive. Adam shoots the goth chick in the hand and blows off her fingers. He then shoots Rooker's foot clean off. Very cool. He uses the goth chick's thumb to start the car and escapes.
Adam shows up at the Clone lab and uses the severed thumb to gain access to the lab itself. He confronts Duvall and hears the whole story. Goldwyn and Rappaport were killed on the mountain. They assumed it was Adam and had all of them cloned. Duvall reveals that Goldwyn is a fourth generation clone. Adam steals Goldwyn's memory disc - the chip that holds the cloning information - and runs off.
Goldwyn dispatches his thugs to capture Adam's wife and daughter for leverage. They use remote controlled dobermans to corner them. Very cool - but reminded me a bit of those seventies movies "The Amazing Dobermans." Adam shows up and loses them but he confronts his clone. They team up and decide to take down the bad guys. That's right...it's two Arnies for one price. They arrange a trade at the chopper depot. The thugs show up and of course the chopper shows up and is blown up....REMEMBER THE REMOTE almost flashed at the bottom of the screen. I've heard of foreshadowing but this is absurd.
At the lab, Duvall has had enough and quits. Goldwyn shoots him and says he will just erase that memory and clone him so he continue his work. It's a very predictable scene. Would you quit and threaten your boss if you knew he could just clone you? Duvall should have said with his dying breath that he erased his memory disc. No dice.
Adam arrives at the Cloning lab and lands on the rooftop. There is a bit of a shoot out as he tries to shoot as many security cameras as possible. He is captured and taken to see Goldwyn. Goldwyn shows him a video of his wife and daughter being held hostage. He then drops the bomb of the movie.............ADAM IS REALLY THE CLONE! He's the fake one....our hero is actually the stooge. It's a lot like the scene in "Total Recall" where Ronny Cox reveals Quaid to be a double agent. They record Adam's memories and play them back like a DVD player to see where Goldwyn's disc is being stored. Adam fakes them out and it turns out that the other Adam is in the building. The family is saved and a big shootout ensues. The pierced idiot tries to shoot the clone Adam but shoots Goldwyn in the gut. The clone Adam jumps into the lab for safety. Goldwyn shoots the pierced idiot and says not to clone him back to life. Very funny. Goldwyn has twenty minutes to live so he decides to clone himself again - can we say "Dark Empire?" Big shootout in clone lab. Adam dives into the vat and swims with the alien looking human templates. The goth chick is strangled by hoses and shoots the vat. Water rushes everywhere. Goldwyn's cloning is interrupted and incomplete. The clone Adam escapes to the rooftop.
The real Adam drops his family off on the street in a waiting cab - where did that come from? He flies back up to help the clone Adam. Goldwyn transfers himself into the incomplete clone and looks a bit like Jeffrey Jones from the middle of "Howard the Duck." All slimy with Doc Brown hair. Rooker has had enough and tries to quit. Goldwyn shoots him and goes to the roof to finish the clone Adam. Obligatory shootout on the roof. The real Adam shows up in the chopper and the two Adams fight alongside each other. Goldwyn is knocked off a ledge by the remote controlled chopper and lands on a glass ceiling. It cracks and he crashes to his death below. The two Adams jump to the waiting chopper and fly off. There is a bit of nonsense with the chopper racing towards a building but they pull through okay.
The clone Adam takes one of the choppers and decides to live at sea. The real Adam takes Rappaport's cat home to his wife and daughter. A television report says that Goldwyn died as a result of a cloning gone wrong and his company is failing.
FADE OUT.
Some thoughts on the movie - good story.....it's not an event film like T2 or True Lies.....it's more of an Eraser or Jingle All the Way. Not great but entertaining. It's a bit jumpy in some spots - there's never any time to map out the areas before they have a shoot out or chase. The ending is a bit muddled - if you fought for your wife and daughter like that would you just give them up to someone else? I know it's a bit cliched but the clone Adam should have died saving the real Adam. It's the only logical conclusion to be reached. The clone can't live on the water like the Gorganites in Small Soldiers. This is a real person....not some toy or alien. He has thoughts and feelings for people he can't ever see again. I can just see the sequel - "The 7th Day" - the day he came back to reclaim his family. There's never any doubt that the clone is the clone and the real Adam is indeed the real Adam - this is no Bladerunner. It's a good flick....I think it would have done better as a Summer movie. It was much better than the crap we've had lately - Gone in 60, M:I 2, etc. It was definitely better than that awful End of Days. As I left the theatre the suits were congregating and the feedback cards were being tallied. I knew I had to get home and write my email quickly.........I know I'm not the only one. I just know my clone is writing to you from his own computer.
Sign me,
MR. NOT
