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The 6th Day (2000)

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Reviews Counted:112

Fresh:45

Rotten:67

Average Rating:5.2/10

Consensus: This offering from Arnold Schwarzenegger contains an intriguing, disturbing premise, but the film's execution is too routine and formulaic to make good use of it.

Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

US Box Office: $33,813,823

Synopsis: In the not-too-distant future, when pets can be cloned after they die and "virtual girlfriends" can be installed and programmed, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works as a helicopter tour... In the not-too-distant future, when pets can be cloned after they die and "virtual girlfriends" can be installed and programmed, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works as a helicopter tour pilot. On his birthday he comes home to discover an identical version of himself--an illegal human clone--celebrating with his family and friends. The next thing he knows, a squad of killers is after him in order to hide the evidence of their cloning activities, funded by Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn), a powerful businessman who hopes to make billions from human cloning in collaboration with his medical expert, Dr. Griffin Weir (Robert Duvall). Of course, nobody believes Adam when he says there's an impostor living his life, and soon he has to take matters into his own hands while being chased by bad guys who won't stay dead thanks to the magic of cloning and Syncordings, instant memory downloads. THE 6TH DAY is an intriguing sci-fi thriller, combining science fact and fiction with everything viewers could want from a Schwarzenegger movie: terrific special effects and an action-packed story, with two Arnolds for twice the fun. [More]

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Duvall, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Duvall, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport, Wendy Crewson, Michael Rooker, Sarah Wynter

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Screenwriter: Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley
Producer: Mike Medavoy
Studio: Columbia Pictures

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Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
10/30/01
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
02/07/01
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It's generic Schwarzenegger.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
01/01/00
Walter V. Addiego
Walter V. Addiego
San Francisco Examiner

Taking anything too seriously in a movie as cretinous as The 6th Day is a big mistake: Each time you think someone's actually done some thinking, they'll prove you wrong.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
01/01/00
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday

Consists almost entirely of ideas gene-spliced from previous Schwarzenegger actioners.

Full Review Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel | comment Comment
01/01/00
Todd Anthony
Todd Anthony
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

It's just not a terribly exciting movie.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment Comment
01/01/00
Ross Anthony
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card

No es nada del otro mundo, la historia es medio sosa...pero entretiene

Full Review Source: Moviola | comment Comment
02/07/01
Jorge Avila Andrade
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola

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.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
01/01/00
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Essentially Schwarzenegger Lite, definitely a new flavor -- but it still gets the job done. For lack of a better word, it's pleasing.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

... 6th Day cannot match Schwzrzenegger's best action efforts, and the harder it tries, the more it sabotages its own best interests ...

Full Review Source: ESplatter | comment Comment
07/04/08
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter

The few glints of promise in The 6th Day are lost in the blinding flash of Hollywood overproduction.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
01/01/00
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

Some of the action scenes here are among the best of the season.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel

A savage critique of a corporation that sets out to market "the business of life."

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
01/01/00
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Joins the ever-growing membership of 2000's Gutless Endings Club.

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01/01/00
Mark Caro
Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune

The best Schwarzenegger movie in years.

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01/01/00
Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe

The studios should enact their own '6th Day Law' prohibiting the carbon-copy duplication of elements from scenario to scenario.

Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
06/18/08
Robert Cashill
Robert Cashill
Newsweek

As a Schwarzenegger vehicle, it's sub-par...

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
04/11/01
Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central

A sublime premise for a movie turned into an unsurprising Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle.

Full Review Source: Matinee Magazine | comment Comment
06/13/02
Jason Clark
Jason Clark
Matinee Magazine

A fast-action, well-paced, clever sci-fi thriller that should go far toward erasing the bad aftertaste caused by last year's End Of Days.

Full Review Source: CNN.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
CNN.com

Since it’s not a very smart sci-fi film, we then hope for a fun sci-fi film.... But there’s not much fun here.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
04/16/02
David Cornelius
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com
 
 
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