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Rating:  - WOW DANG ONE OF THE BEST TV DVD-MOVE FOR SHORE EVER DONE
NOW I COULD EASYLY SAY THIS WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE GRATEST MOVE EVER MADE IN THE WORLD THAT IS SO FOR SHORE & THAT IS PUTTING IT LIGHTLY
Rating:  - Better Than Average Schwarzenneger Flick !
Really decent effort from the king of the action movie ! Really involved story line...something one might not expect from this genere. I was pleasently surprised by this movie. Definetely one of Arnold's better opus's. It's not as good as End Of Days (Arnold's best in my opinion), but it is at least as good as the Termenator series. Give it a try...You won't be sorry. 4 Stars.
Rating: - More relevant than ever!
6th Day sheds light (as it should do) on the reality and subsequently the threat of cloning. A helicopter pilot in the not-so-distant future finds himself on the run by a powerful clone-producing corporation.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and the rest of the cast have truly outdone themselves with their performances, which are outstanding to say the least! All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows (the chemistry is AMAZING)! Very well written and very well presented, the movie is without a doubt guaranteed to provide more than just a few thrills.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues, and the music are all wonderful!
Similarly to movies like Outbreak, The Day After Tomorrow, The Island, The Lord of War, and Blood Diamond to name a few, 6th Day draws attention to some pretty important issues facing humanity.
In short, 6th Day is a movie definitely worth watching and one to seriously consider adding to your movie collection!
Rating: - IF YOU LIKE ARNOLD AND PAUL VERHOEVEN FLICKS...YOU'LL DIG THIS ONE
MOVIE ***1/2
EXTRAS BUMP OVERALL RATING UP TO ****
This 2-disc set of the Roger Spottiswoode-directed sci-fi/action flick THE 6TH DAY replaces the lame original bare-bones edition.
Arnold gets a pretty bad rap nowadays (what doesn't from the 80's??), but this is a pretty good flick with great special effects and directed nicely from Roger Spottiswoode (who also did Tomorrow Never Dies). Canadian-born Spottiswoode broke onto the scene in 1980 with one of my all-time favorite horror flicks: Terror Train. Since then he's directed many solid, but average flicks like Shoot To Kill, Turner & Hooch and Air America (to name a few). He does a great job here mixing action, special effects, a loaded cast, and not just one Arnold...but TWO Arnolds! He definitely took some cues from Paul Verhoeven with the futuristic commercials, and 3-d ads sprinkled throughout these 123 minutes. Fans of Robocop, Starship Troopers and more specifically Total Recall should certainly not be disappointed.
He has a lot to work with as the cast is filled with very solid actors. Michael Rapaport (True Romance), Tony Goldwyn (The Pelican Brief), Michael Rooker (Days Of Thunder) and Robert Duvall (too many flicks to pick one-a Hollywood LEGEND) all play key roles. I don't even need to mention Arnold as his resume is well known (read: provides great action, but his delivery...), plus, there's TWO Arnolds to contend with here as he's been illegally cloned (some scenes kinda remind me of Marty McFly's in BTTF2).
The story is about the philosophical ramifications of cloning. How it affects ourselves, the ones we love, and the ones we don't even know. It's played from both angles; one, the tender angle to keep the ones we love (and ourselves) alive for as long as we can, and the other angle of deceit and manipulation as forced upon us by government, corporations, etc. This makes for an interesting debate issue (albeit, not a new one), and since the movie debuted in 2000, the cloning issue has somewhat dissipated.
There's a whole second disc of extras and this is really a great-looking, great-sounding overall package. 9 featurettes, Showtime special, storyboard comparisons and animatics, RePet infomercials & TV spot, trailers, filmographies, and a nice DVD-ROM section.
In short, if you like futuristic sci-fi and action flicks and can handle two Arnolds (much better than handling two Van Dammes!) then this one's highly recommended for a rental and if you find it cheap: definitely pick it up for purchase.
Rating: - This movie is a clone of "Total Recall"
This is an intense action/sci-fi movie. The plot is similar to that of "Total Recall". Except that the action happens on Earth, not on Mars. And the double personalities in this film exist as physically separate persons (one of which is a clone of the other). That is the difference with "Total Recall", where Arnold is just one guy with a double personality implanted in his brain.
This is one of the few Arnold's movies where he smiles and says "thanks". Most of the time he is a ruthless macho man, but here we get a touch of politeness.
However, I remove one star from the rating, for the following reasons:
1) The action gets very intense and it is difficult to follow who gets cloned and who gets killed.
2) I detected hidden beer commercials in the movie. The question "would you like a beer?" is repeated several times. This is because one of the sponsors is ANHEUSER-BUSCH, the company which makes the Budweiser beer.
3) The DVD which I bought was encoded with some restriction and my DVD-player refused to play it. I actually had to buy a VHS tape, in order to see the film.
Overall, I recommend the movie. It will not disappoint you with action, special effects and plot twists.
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