Let's be honest, The 6th Day would like to believe its quite a clever cautionary tale about the perils of human cloning, of playing God, but the reality is that it's built around the gimmick of two Arnold Schwarzenegger's in one movie and being able to get away with it - surely an action junkie's special kind of dream? The only problem is that Roger Spottiswoode's film is so hokey, so cheesy, and so desperately trying to trick us into believing it's got something to say, that it rarely can escape the schlocky, B-movie dumb action theatrics that the script and direction often fall back on - yet unlike Arnie's best, it's not half as much fun.

To the movie's…

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First time watch: September 2004
Source: Amazon Prime

The 6th Day is a science fiction action film from the year 2000 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Duvall and Michael Rooker set against a near future backdrop inwhich illegal cloning is taking place.

Theres few Arnold films that are actually good and I can enjoy (Terminator, Last Action Hero). This is not one of them. I hadn't watched this film in 15 years and having seen two Arnold's fighting it out in Last Action Hero I thought it could be fun to see another Arnold double act. Unfortunately this a simple case of a half decent plot cloaking an awful and predictable action film that includes plenty of…

Back when the world was rioting over animal cloning, because global warming hadn't been invented yet and the we ran on a 56kbps modem. We got this Arnie sci-fi action flick set in the future where nacho flavoured bananas are a thing, because that's the real American dream.

This was a failed attempt at cloning Arnie's glory years, while still trying to shovel some modern commentary into the mix. He plays Adam Gibson; one of those guys who's hell bent against cloning and new technology (until he needs them). He's supposed to be the voice of the audience, but mostly comes off as a crotchety OK boomer dad joke.

The film raises a few interesting questions regarding cloning, but isn't…

One of the few Arnies I'd never seen, mainly due to its dreadful reputation and the fact that I don't think much of Roger Spottiswoode's films.

And it's not at all good, is it. The concept is quite good but is used to, at first, try and resemble Total Recall, and then used to just bore the crap out of me during an endless third act. Cannot believe how long this film felt, nor why they made it this long in the first place.

Even Arnie doesn't seem much bothered by this, and nobody else is really making the effort or taking this at all seriously, aside from Robert Duvall, who's seemingly acting in a different film to everyone else.…

The first 30-45 minutes of The 6th Day are pretty great; it’s goofy Schwarzenegger science fiction in the vein of Total Recall. It fails to live up to that film, one of Arnie’s career high marks, because of poor direction and diminishing returns on a premise promising at least double the normal allotment of Arnold Units (AU), the gold standard for the quantitative measurement of delirious action-movie madness. “Double,” because, you know, the cloning? Okay, you get it, sorry. So while Arnolds 1 and 2 have a few cute scenes, the potential for full-bore nuttiness is never fulfilled. The 6th Day needs more quick-zoom close-ups on Arnold(s)’s face(s), all screaming mouth(s) and bugged-out eyes(es). More screaming Arnolds in general.

The…

My first watch of this one. I didn't see it when it was released in theatres or on video shortly thereafter. As I recall, it sort of bombed and was largely met by audiences with a bit of an eyeroll. The Arnold theatrical market was becoming saturated at the turn of the century. It didn't matter what the film content around him was--religious thriller, comedy, sci-fi action, another attack from SkyNet--mass audiences were simply less interested in Arnie.

THE 6TH DAY was right in the middle of that filmgoer indifference. This film's angle--clones. Arnold accidentally gets cloned, and a squad is out to kill him/his clone. It's a somewhat interesting concept, and it allows Arnold to play dual roles, sort…

The 6th Day was released 10 years after the release of Arnold Schwarzenneger's Total Recall; however, circulated at a period when his Hollywood blockbuster status made less sense as it continued to drift further away after 1994's True Lies (IMO, his last best movie), the film is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, of whom but for the 007-based Tomorrow Never Dies (seen by many as one of the weakest and forgettable Bond movies, ever), and Turner & Hooch - which I enjoyed, has always been a lacklustre filmmaker, whose approach lacks cutting edge and boldness, as exemplified in the 1986 sports comedy, The Best of Times starring pre-Hollywood stars, Robin Williams and Kurt Russell.

Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a family man…

Doesn't anybody die any more?

Oh Man! This feels so outdated but I've been wanting to watch it for a very long long time. I remember I even watched it on the cinema that year with my friends ...oh the Y2K, looking back to that year it gets me emotional, after all we're in the year 2021, damn!

Anyway, the premise of the movie it's so from around that era that involves cloning and more, the future was about to come and there's a lot of futuristic gadgets that we actually use today's so that's kind of cool.

For an almost two hours feature there's moments I got bored even though it has some great actions scenes and there's Arnie…