Review of Sony Picture's "The Sixth Day"

In the near future your pet cat can live forever. Cars can drive by themselves with only your voice guiding them. Dolls are as life-like as kid sisters, interacting and growing like real humans.

And your life can be taken away from you without your prior knowledge.

In Sony's "The 6th Day," husband and wife writing team Marianne and Cormac Wibberley take a futuristic look at our not-too-distant future and the consequences human cloning could have if given to the wrong person.

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in the film as Adam Gibson, a man who discovers, on his birthday none-the-less, that a clone has stolen his life away from him. Determined to get it back, Gibson goes on a mission to destroy his clone... if its makers don't destroy Gibson first.

Fighting for both the life he lost and the life he currently possesses, Gibson soon realizes that fighting the clone makers is harder that it seems. For every time Gibson kills one of them, a clone takes their place.

In other words, they are immortal.

Now, Gibson is out to save himself as well as his family and get back the life he once had. In order to do that though he may just have to join sides with something he never wishes to face... himself.

Unlike many futuristic films that are so out there its a joke, "The 6th Day" is intelligent, humorous, action-packed and believable. Although Adam Gibson doesn't stray much from every other character Schwarzenegger has every played, the intelligent and thought-provoking plot keep audiences in their seats.

The opening sequence to "The 6th Day" really sets the film's mood. It briefly goes into real life history of cloning and DNA research (Dolly the sheep and the DNA for humans being decoded) and then looks ahead at the possibility of human cloning. It even so much as creates a law against human cloning after one clone experiment went drastically wrong. This captures the audience and makes us believers because Dolly and the DNA decoding really did happen, and if a human was ever cloned we can easily foresee a law being passed against it.

By making us believers from the start, we follow the plotline with the thought that this really could be in the not-too-distant future. We sympathize with Schwarzenegger's character, thinking that this could possibly happen to us. We even get scared at the idea of being immortal-- something the writers wanted us to feel. By making us believers the screenwriters succeed in making the film something viewers will think about and possibly leave the theater being scared of.

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