The 6th Day (2000)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Do not let Arnold in leading role mislead you. Although this movie is an action, it's not just an action, it's a lot more than just that. It deals with serious topic and, although it is not too philosophical, it definitely doesn't banalize it. It is satisfactory intelligent and has just enough depth to challenge imagination and arouse thoughts. The biggest flaw, in my opinion, is that final twist is too predictable and if you watch carefully enough you'll know how it ends at the very beginning. It's a shame cause this story has serious potential for great mindfak. Then again, it would be too much to expect from Schwarzenegger movie. Even this way it's already surprisingly deep for an action movie.7/10

The 6th Day is a unique blend of 90s style action and cyberpunk anticipation about cloning, and human cloning in particular.While other anticipation movies deliver their message in key moments or heavy-handed emotional sequences, 6th Day peppers them all over. A cloned character picks an earring from their previous body and complains about having to pierce their ear again. A customer enters a pet-cloning shop and wonders if his daughter really won't see the difference.This movie probably won't engage you at a deep emotional level. None of the characters is much fleshed out, but still, they serve effectively to convey a wide range of attitudes towards death, grief, cloning, identity, that I'm still waiting to see in another movie.But, The 6th Day does not shovel its messages down your throat. In the end, you're free to pick and choose what you'll retain. And if you just wanna relax and enjoy a dumb Schwarzie one-liner action movie ? Sure, you can ! (even though the action is nothing original)If someone asked me for a movie about cloning, I'd definitely recommend this one.

There isn't really much to be said about this late entry in the Arnold Schwarzenegger series. Here, or rather in the future, he is a happily married man who runs a charter tour service to snowy mountaintops. This kind of opening gives us a chance to goggle at some spectacular scenery and some equally stupendous visual effects. Watch as a helicopter folds its blades back into wings and turns into a metasonic racer twisting and squeezing through the same narrow rocky canyons that the fighters did in "Star Wars." A scurrilous agency has been covertly gathering DNA and cloning people, including Arnold, who sees his surprise birthday party turn into a REAL surprise.Arnold finds that he's being stalked so that he can be offed and his clone take his place, as anybody would. Bodies are flung around with abandon. Ray guns leave tunnels through human torsos.If you enjoy Arnold, you'll enjoy this iteration of his image twice as much because there are two of them. It must be said, though, that as an actor Arnold has the subtlety of a bird dog, maybe a pointer. And this is his worst performance as far as I can recall. The wisecracks are fewer and he seems to be lifting barbells while he waits for the check to be cut.

"The 6th Day" is a rarity: an Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle with a plot (with a great reversal in the middle), a weighty subject matter, and something to think about. Even the villain is not just a random psychopath - he has a rationale to his actions. The film is well-designed (the world it creates is both recognizable and slightly futuristic), and sometimes very funny ("loading virtual psychiatrist!"). And how about Robert Duvall's performance - certainly of a higher caliber than we're used to in an Arnold film. It's not flawless: it's too long, some of Roger Spottiswoode's directorial effects are annoying, and the helicopter climax looks very bad! But as Arnold's movies go, it's among his better ones. *** out of 4.