The greatest movie ever made..!

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Blistering performances.

This is a terrible film made worse by the fact that its underlying premise- illegal cloning- was actually strong. With a bit more effort this could have been in much the same league as Total Recall; indeed there is much about TSD which, intentionally I think, sets about to remind the viewer about that classic, but this is very much a pale imitation.The problem is that the main premise in presented in a confusing and incoherent way. There seems to be an element of consciousness transference about the cloning process. Although this is not usual with any known cloning process, it could be made to work if it were consistently applied. But it isn't. Some characters seem to be the same person reborn in a fresh body even though they clearly died (and make light of their deaths in not very convincing comedy) while others, such as Schwarzenegger and the baddie can exist in two bodies at the same time. How does this work exactly? This is indicative of the general sloppiness of modern Hollywood.The double dose of Arnie could have been fun but his acting is not up to the task and it comes across as particularly flat and wooden. The action scenes are ok but hardly great.All in all, a waste of good potential

The 6th Day is a brash, in your face sci fi actioner with some deft scientific notions that it plays around with in near satirical fashion. It chooses to shoot most of its scenes in my hometown of Vancouver, including a set piece atop the spiral shaped Vancouver Public Library tat sends sparks raining down into the streets and choppers spinning wildly to their demise. I love when films shoot here, because it gives my city an exciting chance to be a part of escapism, and it's amusing to watch them digitally maim all sorts of landmarks and then chuckle as I see them intact on my way to work the next day. Schwarzenegger, in one of his last great flicks before his deliberate hiatus (we shall not speak of the abomination that is Collateral Damage), plays Adam Gibson, a helicopter tour guide who has a strange blackout in mid flight while transporting the CEO of a swanky scientific corporation (slick Tony Goldwyn). He arrives back home to find a clone of himself living with his family, and things only get weirder from there. He has stumbled into the inner workings of extremely illegal experiments involving human replication, and Goldwyn & Co. are none too pleased about it. Goldwyn has secretly made human cloning an everyday thing for the company, hidden from the aging eyes of the moral upright doctor who founded the company (Robert Duvall). This is all enforced by a ruthless corporate thug for hire (Michael Rooker) and his foxy assistant (Sarah Wynter). Schwarzenegger is faced with the daunting task of taking down this un-sanctioned empire, reclaiming his family and blowing up some stuff along the way. It's a terrific flick, and Arnie gets to say the best line he's ever spoken, directed at Goldwyn, which I won't spoil here but it's pure gold. Goldwyn is hateable and malicious, the horrific third act prosthetics fitting him like a slimy glove. Duvall strikes a noble chord and almost seems to have wandered in from a more serious film. Rooker is intense, evil and scene stealing as always. Watch for Wendy Crewson, Michael Rapaport and Terry Crews as well. In a movie so committed to the trademark Ahnuld fireworks, it's cool to get a whiff of actual thought provoking, Asimov-esque intrigue with the cloning, a concept which is fully utilized and really a lot of fun here.

Watching this film again some 15 years later I was struck by how lousy the script was crafted. Not just the expected stupid one-liners for Arnold, making fun of his earlier film triumphs, but how structurally deficient it is.Major plot hole, through which one could drive a fleet of trucks, is the most basic element of the screenplay. At the beginning we have the setup of colleague played by Michael Rapaport substituting for Schwarzenegger in flying the helicopter. This telegraphs to the audience that something serious will happen - clearly the death of Michael in place of Arnold is way too obvious an expectation. A talented scriptwriter, even for the most rudimentary TV show episode, will slip in such detail oh so subtly or masked by endless other details, so the viewer will only remember it afterward as a key foreshadowing. Not so here.Then for the film's biggest twist during Act III, we have a rather clumsy trotting out of the inevitable issue with clones or doppelgangers (or sometimes even twins) in pulp entertainment. It is revealed that the main protagonist through whom we have been observing all the action for an hour and a half of watching the movie is not the real character but rather Arnold's clone. That is certainly the corniest possible twist in this genre, but the scripters completely muff it. The big reveal is based on an ellipsis wherein the character seems to blacking -we saw a dissolve on screen with him getting out of a cab to go home as the original set-up, used retroactively to explain that it was really the clone in the cab. But here is where this plot twist unravels: while it is theoretically possible that the real Arnold has gone home earlier and is with his family, it is not credible that the evil bad guys led by mastermind Tony Goldwyn (and his scientist Robert Duvall) would send their cloned Arnold out into the world, into the cab and headed back home without checking (or at least double-checking) on what awaits him there. True, scenario posits that they think Arnold is dead in the 'copter crash, because they're unaware that Rapaport switched assignments with him and signed in falsely. But we're supposed to swallow that the mix-up has extended so far that the two Arnolds end up at home together. It's patently ridiculous, and just a gimmick so that the audience later on can feel that frisson of uh-oh! I'm a clone, not the real thing, identifying with the protagonist.Instead of this being a cute twist, it makes the rest of the film fall apart completely. The key element of plot in the final reels that Tony has secretly programmed the DNA of all the clones to make them defective so that they cannot represent a long- term threat creates sympathy for Arnold's clone, since it too is doomed in this manner just as Duvall's wife/clone was, but to create a paper-thin "happy ending" for not just Arnold but also his clone (since after all, we the audience have been and continue to identify with the clone) the scripters concoct a vacation-like trip for the clone at the end of the film "to find himself". Sounds good, if corny, on paper, but all he'll find is some horrible illness given Danny's careful booby-trapping of all his clones. Like the original twist, the screenwriters assume the viewer is an idiot who cannot put facts together to reach a conclusion, but will simply assimilate, scene by scene, whatever b.s. is handed out. That is a Hollywood tradition, but I am compelled to point out how lame these key structural errors (which could have been easily avoided) are in "The 6th Day". I admired director Roger Spottiswoode's early work, but this film evidences a drastic decline in quality later in his career - surely he could have demanded some more rewrites.

In this $82 million, "sooner-than-you-think", Sci-Fi yarn about human cloning, neither fantastic stunts nor expensive visual effects could ever save this utter mess from being reduced to the level of a predictable and decidedly confused "cat & mouse" snore-fest.In "The 6th Day" I quickly lost track of just how many people (especially those in high-ranking positions) were in on this whole cloning conspiracy. This business got so out of hand that, before long, it became quite laughable.And, since "The 6th Day's" storyline was dealing with the controversial subject matter of human DNA and cloning, I just knew that the topic concerning Christianity's "god" would inevitably enter into the equation, as well as the whole tired issue about "family values", too.And, speaking about Arnold Whats-his-name (who was paid $25 million to play the Adam Gibson character) - At 53, I thought the "Austrian Oak" was clearly too old for his part. And the utter nonsense of his character playing a game of deception with his own clone was just too-too stupid for words.It really killed me that in "The 6th Day" cloning was so far advanced that it only took the pressing of but a few buttons and, then, "Presto!", in a 2-hour time-frame, a person was entirely cloned, right down to their memories, their idiosyncrasies, etc., etc., etc..... (Sheesh! Spare me!)