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The 6th Day
Schwarzenegger and his clone!
SCIENTIFIC cloning is one of the greatest breakthroughs
so far in the world of science. The successful
cloning of Dolly the sheep and the Human Genome
Project, have fuelled a lot of research in this
field in the recent past, which can be of great
help to mankind. But as it is said, power in the
wrong hands could be harmful. This is what the
Arnold Schwarzenegger starrer The 6th Day is all
about.
Human cloning is banned all over the world and
is considered illegal according to the sixth day
law (referring to the biblical passage, “and
God created man on the sixth day”). But a
power-hungry Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) has
made it his business. He clones people with help
from the scientific genius Griffin Weir (Robert
Duvall).
Adam Gibson is a happy family man, working as
a fighter pilot in the Rainforest War. He has
a beautiful wife Natalie (Wendy Crewson), an eight
year old daughter and a pet for family. They live
in a hi-fi world where bananas come in different
flavours, helicopters are turned into jet-planes
at the push of a button and manuovered with the
help of an arm remote, pets are cloned (thanks
to a firm Repet) and even human organs are cloned
to provide for a better life for man.
Adam, though living in such a world in against
the idea of cloning to become a part of his daily
life, returns home on his birthday only to discover
that he is already home celebrating with friends,
eating his birthday cake and kissing his wife.
The Replacement Technologies Laboratory, by mistake,
has cloned Adam and now they are trying to kill
the real Adam, so that the world does not know
about the clone. But Adam is not a man to give
in without a fight. He is willing to give up his
life to chase the people involved in the cloning
business and out to save mankind from what could
be the beginning of immortality for man and an
end to all belief in God’s nature. All this
and a lot of action, as any other Schwarzenegger
starrer is what The 6th Day provides.
Special effects is what makes the movie an attractive
watch. Car chases, Arnold hanging from cliffs
and a virtual girlfriend for Adam’s best
pal, who can do everything you want her to do,
even disappear at the push of a button (when you
feel she is not required). Arnold not only plays
a double (the real Adam Gibson and the clone),
he is also one of the producers of the film. Tony
Goldwyn and Robert Duvall play their roles to
perfection, while Arnold scores as usual during
the action sequences.
The movie would have been monotonous with all
the action and sci-fi bits had it not been for
a few moments of comical respite well interspersed
between the heavy, serious situations. Over all,
the film’s a not-so-great watch, unless you’re
a die-hard Arnold Schwarzenegger fan.
Lopamudra Bhattacharya
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