This really bugs me: i've read and heard two seperate individuals say that the Island is like the Matrix. All i have to say is... Hello! Are you even watching the same movie i am?!?
The Matrix is set inside a computer program. The Island isn't.
In The Matrix computers control all of humanity's existance. In The Island humans control clones.
In The Matrix humans are used for batteries. In The Island clones are used for spare body parts.
Granted, the humans in the matrix don't know they're in the matrix, and the clones don't know the island is fake, but how are these two movies alike?
Oh, there's a highway chase scene in The Matrix Reloaded and The Island. Well in The Matrix heroine protects keymaker, mentor fights baddies, heroine escapes, mentor and keymaker are saved by hero. There are cadillacs, motorcycles and colliding semis involved. In The Island hero and heroine jump onto semi to escape and don't do any hand to hand combat. They drop train wheels on the people who are chasing them. They steal a jet-propelled air-motorcycle. There's no mentor or keymaker involved and the sequence is totally different.
The Matrix is about humanity as a whole surviving against an enemy it can't see. The Island is about two people saving a bunch of clones that humanity doesn't know about. But for some reason people don't seem to care as much about clones as "real people" in today's PC society; they'd rather endorse stem cell research that kills babies and a woman's right to choose than watch a movie about clones body parts being harvested. Go figure.
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