The Island 2005

Plot In 2019, when most of the outside world has been contaminated, a community of people, rescued from the toxic environment, live by Utopian standards in an isolated colony. The rules of living are selected for them; clothing, meals, leisure, and jobs are all structured and controlled. Everyone in the community anticipates a special event - the lottery - in which one person wins a chance to move to a tropical paradise, the only uncontaminated area left on Earth, known as "The Island". Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) is one of the colonists living in the utopia, but he experiences erratic dreams of a different lifestyle. Lincoln visits the colony's physician, Dr. Merrick (Sean Bean), in the Tranquility Center to talk about the dreams he has been having here. Dr. Merrick also does a synaptic scan. After the visit, Lincoln goes to his job working with the colony's subsistent technology, but he fakes a computer failure to visit his friend James McCord (Steve Buscemi), who works in one of the backrooms of the facility. While visiting, Lincoln sees and captures a flying insect with McCord's matchbox, wondering where it came from if the outside world was contaminated. Lincoln shares his find with his friend Jordan Two-Delta (Scarlett Johansson), as well as his skepticism about the so-called contaminated outside world. Jordan finds out that she has won the lottery to go to The Island. That night, Lincoln has another nightmare. He decides to get up and investigate where the flying insect came from. In the backroom, Lincoln climbs a ladder and finds a hidden medical floor. On the floor, he sees two so-called lottery winners: Lima One-Alpha (Siobhan Flynn), who gives birth to a baby and is murdered afterward, and then showing the baby being given to an identical looking woman(this part Lincoln doesn't see); And another, Starkweather Two-Delta (Michael Clarke Duncan), who wakes up during a surgery to harvest his organs and tries to fight his way out, but is captured back by the staff. Lincoln, realizing that there is no Island and that Jordan would suffer the same fate, races back home to retrieve her and escape from the colony with her. During their escape, they stumble upon the breeding ground for clones, an area in which their rapidly developing brains are programmed until they mature enough to enter the general society. Merrick, who looked over the security tapes from Starkweather's struggle, recognizes Lincoln's presence on the medical floor and orders his capture. Lincoln and Jordan escape to the outside world, which turns out not to be contaminated, and they find themselves in the desert near Yuma, Arizona. Lincoln locates McCord, who turns out not to be one of the colonists, in a bar using McCord's matchbox. McCord, shocked at the two colonists' presence, gives in and explains that the colonists were clones, whose purpose was to provide medical need for their sponsors, should anything happen to them. McCord gives them clothes, some money, and a credit card to help them find their sponsors, with Lincoln's sponsor being in Los Angeles and Jordan's sponsor being in New York. A mercenary strike team led by Albert Laurent (Djimon Hounsou) is deployed by Dr. Merrick to find the fugitives. Lincoln and Jordan evade the mercenaries, though McCord is killed by one. The two colonists escape to Los Angeles, where they run into the mercenaries again in the search for their "sponsors" (the people of whom they were cloned). Escaping once more, Lincoln and Jordan find Lincoln's sponsor, a Scottish playboy racer, Tom Lincoln – a moment of comedy ensues as the cloned Lincoln, who speaks with an American accent, is puzzled by Tom Lincoln's Scottish accent (Ewan McGregor's natural accent in real life). Tom, having been misled like all sponsors to believe that his clone was kept in a persistent vegetative state by Dr. Merrick, pretends to agree to help the two plead their case before the media. However, he instead calls the cloning institute, informing the people that his clone was at his home. Jordan knows that he's lying because he has the same tell that Lincoln does and warns cloned Lincoln. Lincoln goes with his sponsor to a television station to expose the cloning company, but his sponsor instead leads him to Laurent and his fellow mercenaries. Lincoln, taking advantage of his similarity to his sponsor, confuses the mercenaries (especially after he clasps his identification wristband onto the real Tom Lincoln) and is able to escape, getting his sponsor killed in the process. Scarlett Johansson as Jordan Two Delta Scarlett Johansson as Jordan Two Delta Lincoln returns to Jordan, waiting at the sponsor's home. At first, not being sure which Lincoln he is, she aims a gun at him. Lincoln assures her that it's him, the clone, and she realizes that it is him. They both subsequently agree to rescue the rest of the cloned community from the facility. Meanwhile, Dr. Merrick has discovered that all the third-generation clones have somehow inherited varying amounts of memories and even skills from their sponsors. It's a fantastic discovery, but it endangers the facility's very existence - all these clones have memories of an outside world, and as such may attempt to escape at any time. Thus, Merrick decides to have the entire generation killed. On the outside, Jordan and Lincoln decide to return to the facility to free the rest of the clones. As "Tom Lincoln's" "insurance policy" was killed by the mercenaries, Merrick has offered to grow him a new clone for free. Thus, Lincoln can walk right into the facility by posing as his sponsor. Jordan uses McCord's credit card, which is being monitored by the mercenaries, and allows herself to be captured - a less direct route, but still gets her inside. When Jordan returns to the facility, she is taken to an operating room to have her organs harvested. (Jordan originally won the lottery to go to "The Island" because her sponsor, Sarah Jordan, had been in a car accident. However, she will almost certainly die even if she receives new organs.) She pulls out a hidden gun to take advantage of the situation and escapes to meet up with Lincoln. After confirming that both made it in, they separate once more - Jordan will attempt to warn the colonists of their fate while Lincoln disables the holographic projectors that gave them the illusion of a contaminated outside world. Laurent runs into Jordan, but has a stroke of luck. Laurent grew up in Africa, and lost his parents in the Burkinabe genocide. He has a brand on his palm that marks him, like the clones, as "not human." He thus decides to aid her in rescuing a group of clones who are about to be incinerated as part of Merrick's plan. Meanwhile, Lincoln has arrived at the holographic projectors in attempt to sabotage them. Dr. Merrick catches Lincoln in the act and tried to kill him. They fight through a walkway between two cooling towers and Lincoln knocks Merrick to the floor. As he did so, he tried to make an attempt to run, but Merrick grapples him. The facility begins to collapse, but not before Lincoln, Jordan, all the remaining clones, and Laurent escape. As Laurent leaves Lincoln and Jordan to get on with their lives, all the colonists, now seeing the world as it really is for the first time, are just as amazed as Lincoln and Jordan were. The movie ends with both of them on the boat that Tom Lincoln designed and Lincoln had dreamed of, the Renovatio, sailing to a tropical island – a real one.