The 6th Day (2000)
7/10
Very underrated awesome science-fiction action flick!
7 November 2015
The 6th Day (2000) is a sci-fi action flick from Arnold Schwarzenegger. I saw this film in The theater after new year in 2001 when it was released by us in Slovenia. It was the first Schwarzenegger movie I ever saw in the theater before. Later in 2003 I went watching Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in summer August (2003). Those two film were the only Schwarzenegger films I have actually saw! And I love both of them, I even remember how this film was a huge hit in 2001, I kept seeing a VHS cover in the video rent store, I even saw the poster that time. So the film was a hit back than in 2001 when it was released and come to us in the cinema. What can I say it is one of my favorite Schwarzenegger action flicks. This film compared to Terminator: Genysys, Maggie, Sabotage and The Expendables 3 it is a much, much better improvement action futuristic flick than all the new movies I just counted Schwarzenegger did.

This movie is awesome if you like near future action movies, than this is the movie for you. The 6th Day is good, I liked the action bits and the premise is actually quite interesting. It does follow the same old script tactics and the performances are... lets say uninspired. This was definitely a movie using Arnold's action star status for it's gain, pushing every little Arnold trait to the limit especially cheesy punch lines but this is a very enjoyable and cool action flick but it ain't T2. The movie works well for Arnold's action fans. A story premise that fits where technology was and is today. Cloning humans would represent a real danger but it also has moral issues to go with it. Robert Duvall's acting weight helps boost this movie along with Michael Rooker and Tony Goldwyn as the bad guys and this one is a winner.

Arnold Schwarzenegger did a great job and he tried very hard acting in this one with not so much action as most Arnold films. Movie does a great job into deep details of cloning, too bad they wear having those high tech stuff. This film and has a good scenes, great action and the dialogue is funny. The scene when Arnold says when I told you to go screw yourself I didn't mean take it literally. This film is kind of science VS religion because the people who killed Tony Goldwyn's character religious people are against cloning because it is man playing God. I know the bad guys have their reasons for not wanting the business to be shut down if they are found out that they are clones, but in my opinion I think maybe they were afraid of death and want to use cloning as a way to cheat it and not die permanently, but that is just my opinion. I think the rest of the cast did a pretty good job, Michael Rapaport was awesome as Adam's friend, Sarah Wynter did a great job performance of her character Talia Elsworth as the bad guy and she acted very well. I remember Sarah Wynter from 24 (2001) TV series she play Kate Warner in Season 2. The second Season of 24 was always my favorite season of the show. She did made a brief cameo scene in Season 3 episode Day 3: 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.. Gosh today I don't see her in any famous roles or in movies at all. Where did this world come to? from 2000 - 2011 years for me were awesome. Today movies are really awful made. I am glad I see this movie in theaters it is my favorite film and I love it to death!

Director Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies, Noriega) creates a world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him. The 6th Day is the story of Gibson's struggle to reclaim his life and his family.

Director Roger Spottiswoode directed another film that I love 007 flick Tomorrow Never Dies another underrated Bond film and action adventure Shoot to Kill (1988) with Sidney Poitier. I love this underrated action sci-fi Schwarzenegger flick a 7.5/10 it does not deserve the hate or been bashed for it.

The 6th Day is a 2000 American science fiction action film directed by Roger Spottiswoode, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as family man Adam Gibson, who has been cloned fifteen years in the future.

7/10 Grade: B- Studio: Columbia Pictures, Phoenix Pictures Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker, Sarah Wynter, Robert Duvall Director: Roger Spottiswoode Producers: Jon Davison, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Schwarzenegger Writers: Cormac Wibberley And Marianne Wibberley Rated: PG-13 Running Time: 2 Hrs. 3 Mins. Released: October 28, 2000 Budget: $84,000,000 Box Office: $96,085,477
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