Review of The 6th Day

The 6th Day (2000)
7/10
Fun, if you don't think too hard
12 June 2018
Warning: Spoilers
In the near future, pilot Adam finds he has been cloned and the people responsible are looking to kill him. Solving the puzzle and lots of action follow.

If Arnold Schwarzenegger is the top box office draw in the work (in 2000), then a film featuring 2 Arnies must be twice as good, right?

Well, it's not bad. Its sci-fi plot serves as a satisfactory vehicle to hang lots of action sequences on, as well as the entertaining sight of Arnie meeting himself and acting surprised. Twice. At the same time.

Tony Goldwyn is his usual slimy baddie, Robert Duvall is classy in a take-the-money-and-run kind of way, and Michael Rooker contributes a nasty piece of work.

The science contains large chunks of utter nonsense, and contributes to the widespread misconception of armies of Hitlers - if you clone a human being, what you get is a baby, not a fully functioning adult with all the memories of its DNA source.

But if you put your brain in neutral, then this is fun.
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