2000 · action · sci-fi · thriller
The 6th Day
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode2h 3m2000
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
Our read: The 6th Day (2000) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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