Like its slack-jawed clones, The Island is full of energy and incredibly pretty but burdened with only the minimum of smarts.

As usual, Bay stages the action at a breakneck pace that's never frenetic enough to obscure his film's plot holes and logical lapses.

[T]here's plenty to enjoy in the more intimate, character-based moments, if you can cope with the relentlessly overblown action that surrounds them.

Everything at the resolution is a little too simple and neat.