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6th Day, The
Columbia Tristar
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for strong action violence, brief strong language and some sensuality
Starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Tony Goldwyn,
Robert Duvall,
and
Michael Rapaport
A provocative, high-octane look at what happens when technology falls into destructive, corrupt hands -- and when one man refuses to be a pawn in the deadly conspiracy. (Columbia TriStar)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Cormac Wibberley
Marianne Wibberley
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Roger Spottiswoode
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 27, 2001
Video: March 27, 2001
Theatrical: November 17, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
124 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Canada / USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
The delight of this awesome thriller is simply that Schwarzenegger--an old hand at this sort of running-around-shooting-henchmen thing--could easily sleepwalk through the movie...but he doesn't.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
This movie knows how to entertain.
75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Puts the fun back into going to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. He said he'd be back, and he is.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Spottiswoode and Schwarzenegger deliver a clever and colorful conspiratorial thriller with high-energy action scenes, car crashes a go-go, spectacular technology and big explosions, packaged with ferocious glee and spoofing humor. Who could ask for more from Ah-nold?
75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Under the tight wraps provided by a veteran director and a generally clever script, he (Arnold) has, in The 6th Day, his best picture in many years.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A well-crafted entertainment containing enough ideas to qualify it as science fiction and not just as a futurist thriller.
70
Mr. Showbiz
Larry Terenzi
A clever but routine science fiction flick.
70
Film.com
Gemma Files
Well worth the price of admission.
70
Slate
David Edelstein
A fun ride. It's loud and obvious, but it's also the first high-tech, sci-fi thriller to think through some of the implications of cloning and capitalism.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A bit of a clone itself, but it's got a crackerjack helicopter chase, a semblance of a script, and a sotto voce performance by Robert Duvall as a biotech genius who murmurs sweet nothings to his dying cloned wife.
63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
This otherwise undistinguished thriller about cloning is the most entertaining movie from the aging action star for some time.
63
Baltimore Sun
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Closely follows the Schwarzenegger formula, right down to the fiery, explosive-rife finale. If you like the formula, you'll probably enjoy the movie.
63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Offers high-speed helicopter chases, fireballing explosions, deadly laser guns, futuristic technology gone amok, multiple car crashes, two Arnold Schwarzeneggers for the price of one - almost everything except a plot that makes sense.
63
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
Once Schwarzenegger got attached, the short-sighted, commercially minded forces took over; the man is desperate for a hit, so the movie dare not overestimate the audience's intelligence or tolerance for uneasily resolved dilemmas.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The movie isn't "Blade Runner," but it's got some provocative ideas about the implications of cloning in a market-driven, capitalist society.
60
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A mostly standard-issue latter-day Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner spiked with a creepily plausible cloning angle.
50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The 6th Day gets a lot of mileage out of Schwarzenegger, who once seemed incapable of playing anything other than a cartoon but is becoming more and more of a "real" person with age.
50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This movie is a clone itself, a far cry from "Total Recall" but vastly superior to "End of Days."
50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Like Schwarzenegger himself, it looks tired, and a little bored.
50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Edited like the world's most expensive car ad. The screen opens and closes like a nervous accordion, and the action shifts speeds like crazy.
50
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Plays like something picked up at a vintage store; you can see all the greasy fingerprints from those who have handled it before.
50
San Francisco Examiner
Walter Addiego
Modestly better than last year's awful "End of Days," though it falls well short of Arnold's "Terminator" peak period.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
There's no doubt that the formula for this kind of action film is showing its age.
40
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
From its standard-issue action to its halfhearted dialogue and acting, that's one situation even two Schwarzeneggers aren't enough to solve.
40
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Offers action in the Arnold Schwarzenegger style. Well, not right away.
30
Washington Post
Dan Via
Neither smart nor exciting enough to justify the effort.
30
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Achieves a level of hypocrisy astounding less for its brazenness than for its sheer stupidity.
30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's mediocrity at its most unremarkable.
30
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Offers director Roger Spottiswoode a chance to have the worst actor in Beverly Hills play scenes with himself.
10
Film.com
Sean Means
Another droning formulaic thriller.
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