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The Island
2005
· Movie
· 136 min
C
MEANRANK
62/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3655
- IMDb #2566
- Google retired #1815
- Rotten Tomatoes #3661
- Metacritic #3461
- Letterboxd #4084
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4324
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3145
- Metacritic Critics #3397
- Metacritic Audience #3340
- Criticker #2585
- Kinopoisk #1272
- AlloCiné #1710
- Trakt #2306
Every rating
39–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 39, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 44, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Residents of a isolated, sterile compound live with the promise of being chosen to go to the last uncontaminated place on Earth: “The Island.” One man begins to question the reality of their existence and discovers a horrifying truth about their purpose. He stages a daring escape to the outside world to expose the conspiracy and save his friend.
Details
- Director
- Michael Bay
- Writers
- Alex Kurtzman, Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Roberto Orci
- Released
- 21 July 2005
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $126.0M
- Box office
- $162.9M
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