2005’s The Island was a rare box office misfire for director Michael Bay, despite the star presence of Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. Ryan looks back at Bay’s sci-fi dystopia…
Few directors are as adept at blowing things up as Michael Bay. Just look back over his back catalogue: Bad Boys. The Rock. Armageddon. Pearl Harbor. Every single one contains at least one gigantic explosion.
Over the past 15 years, Bay has steadily honed his talent for filming destruction on a vast scale, culminating in last year's Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, in which Egypt is flattened by giant robots.
More comfortable with conveying big screen spectacles than human interest, Michael Bay's one attempt at a slightly more nuanced film, the wartime romance, Pearl Harbor, was widely derided.
In 2005, meanwhile, Bay attempted something a little different. A dystopian sci-fi starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, The Island was a...
Few directors are as adept at blowing things up as Michael Bay. Just look back over his back catalogue: Bad Boys. The Rock. Armageddon. Pearl Harbor. Every single one contains at least one gigantic explosion.
Over the past 15 years, Bay has steadily honed his talent for filming destruction on a vast scale, culminating in last year's Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, in which Egypt is flattened by giant robots.
More comfortable with conveying big screen spectacles than human interest, Michael Bay's one attempt at a slightly more nuanced film, the wartime romance, Pearl Harbor, was widely derided.
In 2005, meanwhile, Bay attempted something a little different. A dystopian sci-fi starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, The Island was a...
- 9/22/2010
- Den of Geek
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