6th Day, The

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham

This movie knows how to entertain.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Puts the fun back into going to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. He said he'd be back, and he is.

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?

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.

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.

Mr. Showbiz Larry Terenzi

A clever but routine science fiction flick.

Film.com Gemma Files

Well worth the price of admission.

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.

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.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

This otherwise undistinguished thriller about cloning is the most entertaining movie from the aging action star for some time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Variety Todd McCarthy

A mostly standard-issue latter-day Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner spiked with a creepily plausible cloning angle.

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.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

This movie is a clone itself, a far cry from "Total Recall" but vastly superior to "End of Days."

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Like Schwarzenegger himself, it looks tired, and a little bored.

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.

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.

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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan

There's no doubt that the formula for this kind of action film is showing its age.

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.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Offers action in the Arnold Schwarzenegger style. Well, not right away.

Washington Post Dan Via

Neither smart nor exciting enough to justify the effort.

LA Weekly Paul Malcolm

Achieves a level of hypocrisy astounding less for its brazenness than for its sheer stupidity.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It's mediocrity at its most unremarkable.

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Offers director Roger Spottiswoode a chance to have the worst actor in Beverly Hills play scenes with himself.

Film.com Sean Means

Another droning formulaic thriller.