In the near future, cloning is now technically advanced, but human cloning is still illegal. Adam Gibson (Schwarzenegger) returns home after working with his friend Hank Morgan (Rapaport), only to find a clone of himself with his family. Before he has chance to find out the truth, he is attacked by a group who want him dead. Adam must escape and find out the truth from the creator of the clones, Michael Drucker (Goldwyn). Adam knows for sure he couldn't have been cloned, but isn't ready for what he's about to hear. In the world of the very near future, cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must now destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him. This film had a lot of potential, the stroy of cloning is a hot issue and Arnie has back in the action/maybe sci-fi-ish genre. Unfortunately, and to my bemusment, Arnold acts very poorly. Now I know he has recievd flack in the past for his acting but, in True Lies, he was great, I thought he proved that he could act and was more americanised than ever b4, but in The 6th Day, Arnie is awful… the scenes where he is talking to himself are atrocious, although, here you could blame direction and editing!<br/><br/>All in all, you can be entertained by this film but, i must protest that Arnie's performance or the film don't warrent the $25,000,000 fee he recieved!<br/><br/>Also their are many many farcical elements through-out. One being.. Arnies everyman character breaking a bad guys neck with no question of regret or fear… a poor film with poor acting… except for Duvall who is the only one who cares.<br/><br/>5/10 I wasted two hours of my life. They will never be recovered. They are gone forever. I went to see The 6th Day with Arnold Schwarznegger. It was not that it was awful, but it was the sort of film one expects to watch on a boring Sunday on television. A lot camera work was intentionally and unnecessarily blurry, but the writing was blurrier still. There were plot holes galore and no characters one could identify with save Arnold-yes, save Arnold, but for what-another bad film? Director, Roger Spottiswoode, has been primarily a television director and it shows and writer/director team Cormac and Marianne Wibberley have only two fairly unheard of films to their names.<br/><br/>The 6th Day is about cloning and seems to have derived its premise from an A.E. Van Vogt trilogy called Null-A, about a man, Gilbert Gosseyn (pronounced Go-Sane), who has a seemingly endless supply of cloned replacement body with minds linked to his, so that if and when his current body died, the next in line awakens with his thoughts right up to the last moment. Still, Gosseyn wonders if the replacement will really be him or just a duplicate with his thoughts and finally determines he had better not die again. In The 6th Day, none of this is given any thought to that. Get killed, get cloned. Lose an arm or a leg, get recloned. And if the old version is still alive when the new one is reborn with memories loaded off of a disk, one is supposed to believe that the old version will just die happy, knowing that a new version is inhabiting the earth. Puleeze! Never are we led to believe that this form of cloning involves any form of immortality for the individual. It just makes a copy. Why then are the players so willing to die again and again if all that is happening is they are being replaced by think-alikes? And this is where the premise falls apart. It would have been easily remedied in this aspect-a living, conscious connection having to be made, but the writers did not think of that. Oh, well.<br/><br/>Did I really care in the end who lived or who died? Not really. Perhaps it would have worked, though, if someone had just cloned a different production team. No wonder there are Seventh Day Adventists! Offers high-speed helicopter chases, fireballing explosions, deadly laser guns, futuristic technology gone amok, multiple car crashes, two Arnold Schwarzeneggers for the price of one - almost everything except a plot that makes sense.
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