Cast: Ewan McGregor (Lincoln Six Echo/Tom Lincoln), Scarlett Johansson (Jordan Two Delta/Sarah Jordan), Djimon Hounsou (Albert Laurent), Sean Bean (Merrick)
For complete cast info, see IMDb's The Island page.
The Island starts off pretty slow and has a lot of exposition for this sci-fi world. I'm glad we stuck with it, though. Who can argue against a movie that has two Ewan McGregors (or for the guys two Scarlett Johanssons)? The plot being slow means that you're always ahead of the characters and figure things out quite a bit before them, which is a bit annoying. Once it gets going, the story is pretty interesting and well done. I think if they'd trimmed some out of the exposition and made it more of an hour and 40 minute movie instead of over 2 hours, it would have been better, but it was still interesting once it got past the exposition.
The cast of The Island is amazing. Almost every time a new major character was introduced I was pleasantly surprised to see who had been cast in the roll. Glad that we kept this on the rental list, but it's definitely worth renting.
Grade: B
Labels: 2005, action, drama, Ewan McGregor, movie, Scarlett Johansson, sci-fi, thriller
Reviewed by Kat at the 7:00 AM show | 0 screams