No, No, No, No, No!
Rating: 2 of 10 
After 'Tomorrow Never Dies', I'd have considered Spottiswoode to be a pretty good choice for an action film. Yet from the beginning to the very end - with very few exceptions and interesting ideas like Re-Pet for instance - the movie at hand is plainly awful, derivative and stupid. Cloning and genetic manipulation may constitute interesting subjects, but better left to more philosophical movies like 'Gattaca' or issue-oriented TV shows like Star Trek and The Outer Limits. The approach taken by 'The 6th Day' is that of a stupid kid destroying what he doesn't understand, it is an approach of ignorance and stupidity - and it shouldn't be taken seriously, not at all.
Schwarzenegger may be very sympathetic, but it doesn't seem he can act. That's no problem in comedy, it was surprisingly no problem in action films like 'Eraser', but here it is extremely annoying. Clumsiness doesn't fit the topic, neither does the way he smiles when he gets to kill somebody. The effects are ok, nothing great, but the scene in which he jumps into the river is just shot unbelievably primitively, you can almost see the rope. This is bad, really bad, and that's the feeling I get with this film - a really bad movie, were it not for Robert Duvall and some nice moments. What a disappointment.
January 22nd, 2001 / August 15th, 2002
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