Adam Gibson: Arnold Schwarzenegger	Drucker: Tony Goldwyn
Dr. Graham Weir: Robert Duvall	Hank: Michael Rapaport
Talia: Sarah Wynter	Natalie Gibson: Wendy Crewson
Virtual Girlfriend: Jennifer Gareis	Director: Roger Spottiswoode

30 Second Bottom Line: A family man's home is threatened when he arrives to find that a human clone has replaced him. He must first learn why he has been cloned, then determine who did it. Finally, he must take action to get his life back.

Story Line: The story line requires that you know the various characters and their relationships to each other, so bear with me for a short while. Headlines showing the progress of cloning flash across the screen, taking us to a time in the not too distant future. The technology to clone humans has arrived but has been declared illegal. Persons caught committing the act can be given 40 years in jail. Human clones have no legal rights and are put to sleep, just as an old dog or horse with a broken leg.

Adam (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Hank (Michael Rapaport) are pilot/owners of the Double X Charter Company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They make a living by taking people into the mountains for pristine skiing, in sleek, jet attack-type helicopters. A client, Drucker (Tony Goldwyn), is the multi-billionaire CEO of Replacement Technologies, a company that saved the planet by using cloning and genetic engineering to replenish the world's food supply. His not so hidden agenda is to extend life with cloning, even at the cost of $1.2 million per operation. He even has a plan to use the technology to assist a congressman to become more sympathetic to his cause of making human cloning legal.

Pet cloning is legal, so when their young daughter's dog has to be put to sleep, Adam's wife Natalie (Wendy Crewson), urges him to go to RePet and have the dog cloned. The process takes about two hours and must be done within 24 hours of death. RePet is a store you find at the mall, which feels like an upside down Disney or Warner Brothers store. Not only is the clone a physical look alike, but the process captures brain function, habits and memory, so the new pet is just like the old one…and so it is with human clones as well.

Adam's young daughter wants a Sim Pal doll (I take it that means "simulated pal"), that while not a clone, is eerily human. Think in terms of the dolls you can have made to look like your kids, except that Sim Pal can talk and make facial expressions.

After an incident at a mountaintop ski area between radical anti-clone activists, and Drucker and Hank, Adam is cloned because he is thought to be dead. When he realizes he has been cloned, the chase scenes and explosive action begins… non-stop. Drucker sends Talia (Sarah Wynter), along with another bodyguard, to kill the real Adam.

Dr. Weir (Robert Duvall) is the chief scientist at Replacement Technologies, and about the only one of the bad guys who has not been cloned one or more times. He's conflicted because his wife is dying and she believes her time has come to die, so she does not want to be cloned. Although Drucker could make a perfect clone, he always puts in a defect, so that if the clone becomes a traitor, it will die before long. His leverage is to have them request to be cloned again.

Now that you know the key characters and what motivates them, the rest of the plot hangs on (literally) how they battle each other in car chases, helicopter skirmishes, human regeneration after being killed, technobabble on cloning and how in the end, good conquers evil.

Tell Me More About It: The 6th Day qualifies as a check your brain at the door film. I can't recall when it was this difficult to explain the plot of an action film since the first Mission Impossible. While it's a little hard to logically follow, in some ways that's the point…don't try. Just hold on and act like you are on a roller coaster...you'll enjoy the ride even if you don't understand all that is going on.

In between the action, there is plenty of tongue in cheek humor, with the best scenario being how a person literally screws himself. For PG-13, the sex is pushed quite far, with lap dance action and the unzipping of Hank's pants by his Virtual Girlfriend (Jennifer Gareis). This is Playboy for Kids, and without doubt a film aimed at young boys. Much of the action is MTV in concept and GameBoy on the follow through. In my opinion, this is an R rated film. That means that while my 12 year old grandson might enjoy it, he needs to be with an adult, rather than just have permission to go with his buddies.

As preposterous as the entire story is, it's so far out there that it actually kind of comes together and makes sense. The noise level is off the chart with the non-stop action. It will either hold your attention in a riveting way or numb you to sleep.

Arnold has always been a B movie actor in A movies, so I never expect him to be nominated for an Oscar. In The 6th Day, he has plenty of company when it comes to mediocre acting. If you have any doubt about that, look at the difference in Robert Duvall's performance. He almost makes the film seem real and plausible.

We know there are people in the world like Dr. Weir and Drucker who could make The 6th Day all too real. The film does show us that we have a new technology, which if not controlled could become a worldwide disaster. Cloning may just be the twin brother of the nuclear bomb.

Arnold Schwarzenegger: End of Days	Tony Goldwyn: Bounce
Robert Duvall: Gone in Sixty Seconds	Michael Rapaport: Lucky Numbers
Sarah Wynter: Lost Souls	Wendy Crewson: What Lies Beneath
Jennifer Gareis: Miss Congeniality	Roger Spottiswoode: Tomorrow Never Dies