The Island (2005)

If you were rich and famous wouldn't you want to live forever?

This was the central question that the movie directed by Michael Bay tried to answer.

The year was 2022 and Americans had perfected the technology of cloning. A multi-billion dollar corporation, Merrick Incorporated, was raking in a lot of profit after it had built an underground facility to clone humans and harvest their internal organs. The filthy rich and powerful people had availed of Merrick's promise of eternal life and the CEO, Merrick (Sean Bean) and his board of directors, were willing to deliver exactly that promise to them.

Under the Sector Four section, the clones were ignorant of the scheme. They were made to believe that a viral contamination wiped out the entire human population. Down below, they were safe from infection. They lived like zombies and automatons who ate, drank, played, worked, went to school but forbidden to get too close to one another. Under this set up everything seemed peaceful and orderly, except for people like Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor), who was bothered by frequent nightmares and irregularities in the facility.

People at the facility lived normal yet surreal lives. Theirs was a life of boring routine. So to keep their spirits up, a lottery was devised to "choose" "special" people to live and populate The Island, Earth's last remaining frontier. Lincoln's friend Jordan (Scarlett Johannson), was chosen to be onThe Island. However, Lincoln discovered the ruse and secret of Merrick and how people were disposed off after their organs were harvested. He convinced Jordan to escape from imminent death. Together the two, with the help of a mechanic, McCord (Steve Buscemi), planned to look for their sponsors and spill Merrick's dark secrets to the public.

Merrick on the other hand wanted Jordan to be back in the lab because her sponsor, the one who commissioned cloning her, needed Jordan's internal organs within 48 hours or she'll be forever in coma. Merrick hired the service of agent Laurent (Djimon Hounsou) to track Lincoln and Jordan down and to prevent disaster from happening.

What the two fugitives found at the real world was more shocking that what they had expected to find in the facility.

Verdict: Watch it and talk about it!