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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The movie is more about how many things Michael Bay can smash up -- lots. That might not be a talent most people respect, but it gets through to people anyway, and here Bay does it exceptionally well. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The Island runs 136 minutes, but that's not long for a double feature. The first half of Michael Bay's new film is a spare, creepy science fiction parable, and then it shifts into a high-tech action picture. Both halves work. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Starts off an aggressively derivative sci-fi thriller, then morphs into an above-average chase melodrama. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Glossy, witty eye candy with some moderately chewy stuff in the middle. This lavish, exhaustingly kinetic film is smarter than you might expect, and at the same time dumber than it could be. It's an impressive product: a triumph of cloning that almost convinces you that it possesses a soul. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Justin Chang

    Frenetic actioner about refugees from a genetic cloning plant starts off intriguingly, burns up its ideas in the first hour and pads out the rest with joltingly repetitive action sequences. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The Island begins with a whimper of interest as a cool-hued, cautionary exploration of the ethics of cloning, and ends, in a hail of product placement, with a dumb bang. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Chases, crashes and explosions are thick on the land in the second half of this movie, but though they are expertly done, their size, frequency and increasing disconnection from what was once a coherent story leave you feeling pummeled rather than exhilarated. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    This frenzied fiesta of firepower is about cloning people for spare parts, but the movie is a clone itself. Possessing no new ideas, it reworks and borrows from such films as "Blade Runner," "The Matrix" and "Logan's Run." Read full review

  • 38
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    A borrowed idea -- hello, "Blade Runner," hi there, "Matrix" -- but an idea nonetheless. Read full review

  • 20
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    If you find yourself at "The Island" I have only three words of advice: Vote yourself off. Read full review

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