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The 6th Day

Play trailer 1:44 Poster for The 6th Day PG-13 Released Nov 17, 2000 2h 4m Sci-Fi Play Trailer Watchlist
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A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish and even 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 now destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
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This offering from Arnold Schwarzenegger contains an intriguing, disturbing premise, but the film's execution is too routine and formulaic to make good use of it.

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Robert Cashill Newsweek The studios should enact their own '6th Day Law' prohibiting the carbon-copy duplication of elements from scenario to scenario. Rated: 2/4 Jun 18, 2008 Full Review Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films A watchable action vehicle with some thoughtful futuristic touches and an attempt to grapple with larger issues. Rated: B- May 8, 2002 Full Review Desmond Ryan Philadelphia Inquirer There's no doubt that the formula for this kind of action film is showing its age. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins While it understandably sidesteps truly thought-provoking aspects of cloning in favor of explosions and fistfights and one-liners, it mostly errs in the arena of editing. Rated: 4/10 Sep 25, 2020 Full Review John A. Nesbit Old School Reviews patented Schwarzenegger formula movie Rated: B- Jun 5, 2012 Full Review Randy White Common Sense Media A decent movie for teens, if they can endure it. Rated: 2/5 Jan 2, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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Blu B They need to remake this, strip it down to the core ideas that are the best things here and make something good. Because there is more than enough idea wise and subplots that if developed can more than make a Sci-Fi Classic. As it stands...we have this. I'm not even sure why it's called 6th day either. I'm not sure they even say. As said previously the clone ideas and everything are great. The editing isn't good and the pacing is terrible though. This starts off fine enough but it can never stay on one plot line for long before jumping to the next. Everything feels underdeveloped and hasted. It makes sense at first but it's so much it becomes diffcult to keep up. Than once the clone storyline starts it not only feels rushed and bloated...it becomes very jumpy and incoherent. Than we jump around between the two Arnold's AND Duvall's character and this is the death blow. It becomes completely incoherent in the middle and so hard to follow, Duvall becomes a plot expose machine, and sometimes I don't even know. It's so hard to tell the two Arnold's apart that even if you know what's happening in a given scene ort how it connects to the last one if your lucky, you don't know which storyline it belongs too. The ending...kind of makes it work "Better" but it's still not great. It's just it becomes not incoherent anymore but still. It's just standard Sci-Fi end villian fight stuff. Also the transitions are dated at times but it's not as bad as a Tony Scott film. It is distracting though. Everything else is alright enough I guess. I like the setting and the tech. It's cool to see a lot of this stuff in 2000 style. A lot of it we're using today so it looks cool. But again half the time I don't know what is going on despite good production value, effects, and direction. Arnold isn't bad here and the best thing acting wise. In the start he's pretty good actually with a lot of charm and charisma but it just disappears because we jump around so much and half the time I swear he doesn't know what's happening. The villian is lame and forgettable also. Everyone else is one note and forgettable as well or just spews plot expose half the time. The music is boring and trying to be hip and extreme at times along with boring generic stuff. Overall, this is a fustrating, incoherent, wasted potential mess that can't stay focused enough to get out of it's own way. Skip This. Complete missed opportunity. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/04/25 Full Review Joshua H. I wanted this to be good but it was just ok It had several issues Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/21/25 Full Review Samim A It’s a real feat to clone a very mediocre action film from such a promising and complex stem cell, especially in 2000 ! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/28/25 Full Review Michael G I don't know what's worse, Schwarzenegger's acting or the dialogue and plot, so I'll just call it a tie. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/26/25 Full Review Igor S I love Arnold, but this movie was so bad. The best part were the AI/tech jokes and Tony Goldwyn's acting. Overall, there is not good enough things to make it at least a bit enjoyable. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/02/25 Full Review Christopher J very good action, acting could've been better, and sometimes the story made little sense but still great movie Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/25/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish and even 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 now destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
Director
Roger Spottiswoode
Producer
Jon Davison, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Screenwriter
Cormac Wibberley
Distributor
Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video
Production Co
Phoenix Pictures
Rating
PG-13 (Some Sensuality|Brief Strong Language|Strong Action Violence)
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 17, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$34.5M
Runtime
2h 4m
Sound Mix
SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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