The 6th Day

Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 17, 2000

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49	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews

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Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf

The delight of this awesome thriller is simply that Schwarzenegger--an old hand at this sort of running-around-shooting-henchmen thing--could easily sleepwalk through the movie...but he doesn't. Read full review

Jay Carr

Puts the fun back into going to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. He said he'd be back, and he is.

Sean Axmaker

Spottiswoode and Schwarzenegger deliver a clever and colorful conspiratorial thriller with high-energy action scenes, car crashes a go-go, spectacular technology and big explosions, packaged with ferocious glee and spoofing humor. Who could ask for more from Ah-nold? Read full review

Bob Graham

This movie knows how to entertain. Read full review

Shawn Levy

Under the tight wraps provided by a veteran director and a generally clever script, he (Arnold) has, in The 6th Day, his best picture in many years.

Roger Ebert

A well-crafted entertainment containing enough ideas to qualify it as science fiction and not just as a futurist thriller. Read full review

Film.comGemma Files

Well worth the price of admission. Read full review

David Edelstein

A fun ride. It's loud and obvious, but it's also the first high-tech, sci-fi thriller to think through some of the implications of cloning and capitalism. Read full review

Mr. ShowbizLarry Terenzi

A clever but routine science fiction flick. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

A bit of a clone itself, but it's got a crackerjack helicopter chase, a semblance of a script, and a sotto voce performance by Robert Duvall as a biotech genius who murmurs sweet nothings to his dying cloned wife. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

Offers high-speed helicopter chases, fireballing explosions, deadly laser guns, futuristic technology gone amok, multiple car crashes, two Arnold Schwarzeneggers for the price of one - almost everything except a plot that makes sense. Read full review

Marc Caro

Once Schwarzenegger got attached, the short-sighted, commercially minded forces took over; the man is desperate for a hit, so the movie dare not overestimate the audience's intelligence or tolerance for uneasily resolved dilemmas.

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Closely follows the Schwarzenegger formula, right down to the fiery, explosive-rife finale. If you like the formula, you'll probably enjoy the movie.

Jonathan Foreman

This otherwise undistinguished thriller about cloning is the most entertaining movie from the aging action star for some time.

TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh

The movie isn't "Blade Runner," but it's got some provocative ideas about the implications of cloning in a market-driven, capitalist society. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

A mostly standard-issue latter-day Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner spiked with a creepily plausible cloning angle. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Plays like something picked up at a vintage store; you can see all the greasy fingerprints from those who have handled it before. Read full review

Walter Addiego

Modestly better than last year's awful "End of Days," though it falls well short of Arnold's "Terminator" peak period.

Desmond Ryan

There's no doubt that the formula for this kind of action film is showing its age.

Rene Rodriguez

The 6th Day gets a lot of mileage out of Schwarzenegger, who once seemed incapable of playing anything other than a cartoon but is becoming more and more of a "real" person with age.