Your time will come...

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michael Clarke Duncan, Steve Buscemi, Ethan Phillips, Brian Stepanek, Noa Tishby, Shawnee Smith

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ - good

"The only thing you can count on is that people will do anything to survive. I just want to live. I don't care how." – Lindoln Six-Echo

Why watch this film? It's a good techno-thriller about a possible future.

Plot Summary: Lincoln Six Echo lives in a sealed utopian compound in the year 2019, but his entire existence is abruptly challenged when he discovers the community's true, horrifying purpose after a friend gives birth. He soon realizes that all inhabitants, including himself, are actually clones meant for organ harvesting, leading him to escape the facility with a female clone named Jordan Two Delta. The pair then embarks on a desperate journey into the outside world to expose the corporation responsible and fight for their right to live as real human beings.

Dad's Preview: This film has a wonderful sci-fi dystopian premise, superb stars, and a solid action director in Michael Bay (The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998)). I particularly love the concept that squeaky-white utopia is a lie, concealing greedy corporate enrichment. However, the film shifts gears midway through. It devolves into (and I hate to use this word) a ridiculous action film. The protagonists become almost super-human, as they run from their pursuers and perform unnatural acrobatic feats. They somehow manage to escape injury amid flying car crashes and falling from a 40-story building. Bay missed a huge opportunity to make a memorable, even classic, sci-fi film. Instead we got a very watchable, if bombastic, mess that I'm sure made executives and brain-dead movie-goers happy. For me, I'm a little saddened by what could have been.

DreamWorks Pictures, Parkes/MacDonald Prod.; Warner Bros.