The Island Review

For the first act this is a real science fiction film. A sterile white facility, residents told the outside world is contaminated, a lottery that supposedly sends winners to the last clean island, and a man who starts noticing that the machinery does not add up. The reveal, that they are clones grown for spare parts and kept childlike so nobody objects, is a solid premise well staged, and McGregor is good playing both a clone and the original who thinks of him as inventory.

Then the pair escape and the film becomes a Bay chase picture with product placement so relentless that the placement became the story of the release. The second half is the freeway sequence, the flying bikes and a villain explaining ethics while sprinting. The story's resemblance to a 1979 low budget film called Parts, The Clonus Horror led to a settled lawsuit. It flopped hard, and the good forty five minutes still deserve better company.