The Island

Corrected entry: In the car chase sequence, one of the car doors is open, then suddenly is closed, then is open again.

Correction: There are two cars - the car being chased and the chasers' car. The car with the door closed was a shot of the chasers' car.

Corrected entry: The large scar on Lincoln's face disappears shortly after the love scene. (It's supposed to be the next day but one day is not long enough for a scar to fully heal.).

Correction: Lincoln's scar on his forehead was bleeding fresh, which made it look like it was bigger then it actually was. He must've washed off the dry blood at some point. On the balcony the scar is still there, but the light overshadows it.

Corrected entry: Merrick is supposedly breaking numerous laws against euthanasia by creating sentient clones, yet has a staff of hundreds working at the clone factory as though they were making shoes. He couldn't possibly hope to keep things secret running things the way he did. Does he really think someone like Steve Buscemi could be trusted with such a secret?

Correction: You'd be surprised what you can get people to do, and once they're associated with such activities they can't 'go public' lest they be arrested as well. Not to mention the pay is probably very good.

James King III

Corrected entry: When they have to decide that they must get rid of $200 million dollars worth of clones, they begin killing every new clone in their own water pouch, every new clone being "taught" the basics of living in the institution, and then they have mass winnings for clones already in the system. But $200 million means that only 40 people would need to be killed. They obviously tried to kill way more people than 40 people during the entire sequence.

Correction: Not all the clones would necessarily be worth $5 million. That is just how much Tom Lincoln (the "real" one) paid for HIS clone. Others could have paid less, or more.

Corrected entry: Falling from a 40 story building would kill a person. even if they did land in a net.

Correction: Stuntmen do it all the time- obviously they land in carefully positioned airbags, but it is possible to survive a fall that high or higher. Though it is extremely unlikely.

James King III

Corrected entry: If the real Jordan was such a world-famous supermodel, why is her clone able to walk around and mingle with the public, yet no-one recognizes her face? (Other than the real Lincoln and her son.)

Correction: Models can look very different in real-life as opposed to how they look on TV, the fashion runway, and in print ads. Hair, makeup, lighting, photo retouching etc., create drastically different images. And not everyone is interested in knowing who the super models are.

raywest

Corrected entry: When Ewan McGregor enters the hospital through the loose floorboard, he doesn't close it all the way, yet when they show the hallway were the floorboard is supposed to be it is in place again. When he comes back, the floorboard is back in the same position he left it.

Correction: We don't see the first hallway again until he returns to it to leave, so we never see it 'back in place'.

James King III

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when all the "products" are coming out of the complex, the shot changes to Mr Laurant, the special forces leader, walking down the embankment. To his right (the shots left) is Gandu Three Echo, who Dr. Marrick killed earlier in the movie with an injection to the neck. (02:08:15)

Correction: The injection was not to kill him, but sedate him so he could later be harvested. The sedation likely wore off.

Then why were they sending the rest to the gas chamber? Dr. Marrick would only be doing two things at a time like that: saving the president's clone, or getting rid of some troublemakers personally, like Gandu, to show his staff that eliminating products is part of everybody's job, not just basement workers.

Corrected entry: After Dr. Merrik calls the contamination alert for the facility we see a scene where he is talking to a clone from the Echo generation, Ghandu 3 echo after Ghandu starts questioning the "contamination" and the "lottery" Merrik then injects and kills Ghandu with a drug into his neck which was used to kill Lima in the begining but at the end of the film when the clones are escaping the facility right behind Jones you see a very much alive Ghandu in the backround.

Correction: It is never specified that the drug was lethal. It could've been a sedative.

Brad

Corrected entry: Why on earth does the facility have such an elaborate method of anaesthetising the clones before removing their organs? This would involve huge expense and require skilled medical staff and waste a lot of time. Why not just shoot them in the head and be done with it? There is no risk to the bodily organs - organs from executed Chinese prisoners (who are shot to death) are routinely transplanted, and in fact anaesthetic gases can cause liver damage - too bad if you are waiting for a transplanted liver, like Lincoln.

Correction: It's possible that in ten to fifteen years, anesthetics have been created that allow for no tissue damage. It's also possible that in that timeframe, they discovered that the organs do better when removed from a living body. Given that it takes place in a time we don't have access to, creative license can be taken.

CocoCami

Corrected entry: If all the Echo generation was made in the same year then why do they destroy the "products" still in the water bags? Wouldn't that be a new generation?

Correction: If you would have followed the movie attentively, then you would know that the Echo generation was infected including every subsequent generation, that's why they also destroyed the bodies in the feeding bags.

Ronnie Bischof

Corrected entry: Why on earth would McCord, a welder who works below the main floor and (supposedly) has no contact with the clones, know everything about the ultra-secret cloning operation? It's like a cleaner in the Pentagon knowing strategic military secrets. Haven't they ever heard of Need To Know?

Correction: He's seen repairing a computer when they cut a clone out of a breeding bag. So he surely knows a lot about the whole operation.

Ronnie Bischof

Corrected entry: You cannot, ever, vacuum seal transplant organs in plastic covers, as they do with the liver harvested from one of the clones. The plastic cover is impervious to vacuum (i.e. completely airtight) so it will not allow water or oxygen to pass into the liver. This will lower the turgor pressure in the liver and a result water will start to boil out of the cells, breaking down the cell membranes. That's fine if you are going to eat the liver, but it will be rendered totally unsuitable for transplant. I will, in effect, be dead.

Correction: Can we not assume other medical and scientific breakthroughs on the part of a company that has devised a system of massive, assembly line cloning of complete human beings? Surely a company selling these clones as a medical insurance plan will have done serious work in the area of harvesting organs when needed, and moved beyond the plastic bag and beer cooler full of ice we currently use.

Visible crew/equipment: At the end of the freeway chase, when Laurent steps out of the passenger side of his car, a camera and several crew members are reflected in the door of an approaching vehicle.

Nick Bylsma

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Tom Lincoln: Yes, can you please explain to me why my insurance policy is sitting downstairs on my fucking sofa?!

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Trivia: Robert Fiveson, the producer of the 1979 B movie "Parts: The Clonus Horror" sued Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, Michael Bay and the producers of "The Island", citing over ninety similarities between the films. Despite the fact that he was a long forgotten producer of low budget films and he was up against the biggest names in Hollywood, he settled out of court for an undisclosed "seven figure sum" and 15% of the net profits of "The Island." Since it cost £126,000,000 plus advertising and netted just £81,000,000, I hope he got his seven figure sum.

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Question: What happens to all the clones at the end? Do they live? Do the sponsors get their money back? Does the government kill them all?

Answer: We saw them set free, so assume beyond that what you will. If we apply current reality to it, we can guess the sponsors lost their money, as the venture was entirely illegal to start with. The government would gain nothing killing them, so they likely would issue new Social Security numbers to them and start collecting taxes ASAP. If you must have a definitive answer to 'what happened next', you can always wait for a sequel.

johnrosa

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