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Add a little bit of cloning to Total Recall and you get Arnold Schwarzenegger in The 6th Day. This film that is set in the very near future has a ton of futuristic gadgets to go with a bunch of action sequences, but not a whole lot of great acting. Basically Adam Gibson (Arnold, End of Days) is a helicopter pilot with his friend Hank (Michael Rapaport, Men of Honor), who both get caught up in a illegal cloning operation. In the beginning of the film we learn that the world has passed anti-human cloning laws after a failed attempt at human cloning. But a wealthy young mogul by the name of Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) wants to live forever and continues research into the matter and with the help of Dr. Weir (Robert Duvall, Gone in Sixty Seconds) is able to perfect the process. But no one can know about this secret so all that find out are killed. Adam finds out after returning home one day to find that he was already home. So now Drucker needs Adam dead so that the clones won't be killed. But as you know from most of his other films that you can't kill Arnold, you can only piss him off (and that's exactly what happens). Now you have an angry Adam Gibson trying to rescue his wife Natalie (Wendy Crewson, What Lies Beneath) and daughter Clara (Taylor Anne Reid), plus he wants to destroy Drucker. The director Roger Spottiswoode attempts to touch on the issue of cloning, but frankly fails in that attempt. Arnold tries to be funny, but he just isn't a very good comedic actor. Frankly the writers, Cormac and Marianne Wibberley, tried to put in to many things into this film. Rarely can you have great humor, touch on an important issue effectively, and have great action sequences. The 6th Day only did well on that last part, the action. In conclusion, I'll give the movie five couches for trying and for the great special effects, but they do get knocked down for the Arnold humor and the lack of naked breasts. Till we meet again.
Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:49:55 AM |
