"The 6th Day" is an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie and as such it has big explosions, lots of action, and a touch of humor. The year is about 2020 or so. Cloning is a well-established reality and although human cloning of any sort is illegal, animal cloning is not. Schwarzenegger plays Adam Gibson, a helicopter pilot and family man who runs a small extreme vacations company with his partner Hank Morgan, played by Michael Rapaport (who I just saw in "Lucky Numbers" playing Dale the Thug).

Adam is supposed to ferry mega-mogul Michael Drucker, played by Tony Goldwyn who I saw in "Bounce" playing the soon-to-be-late Greg Janello. Drucker owns several cloning-based companies, including RePet which is a pet replacement service and some other company doing human organ cloning. It's Adam's birthday so Hank convinces Adam to let him take Drucker while Adam goes to RePet to get his daughter's dog replaced, which was run over just that morning. Hank pretends to be Adam, since Adam was asked to be the pilot, and he and Drucker are off.

Unfortunately, Hank and Drucker are in for a rude surprise. When they arrive at their destination, an anti-cloning zealot walks up to them and shoots them both. Finished with his errand, Adam returns home to find that there's another Adam at his birthday party. Before he can walk in and interrupt, a gang of four henchmen stop him and capture him. Adam does escape though, and now he has to find out what's going on before he is found and killed. Hope I didn't give too much away. The plot does make sense and although you can guess at some of the complications, the story is done in such a way that it could go either way seamlessly.

Playing the bad foursome are Michael Rooker as Robert Marshall and leader of the team. (IMDB seems to have added little photos to the actor screens, very helpful in identifying people). Looks like I saw Michael last in "The Bone Collector". Sarah Wynter plays Talia Elsworth, the only other competent bad guy to get a lot of screen time. Don't think I've seen her before. Rodney Rowland plays Wiley, a sort of unstable and erratic henchman. Rodney I remember from the first season of "Pensacola: Wings of Gold". Terry Crews is the last henchman, Vincent. He doesn't get much screen time at all and the only other credit he has is the television show "Battle Dome".

Who else? Robert Duvall plays Dr Griffin Weir, one of the foremost experts in cloning research. He has a fairly big role as you'll find out later in the movie. I saw Duvall last in "Gone in 60 Seconds". Wendy Crewson plays Natalie Gibson, Adam's wife. She was in "What Lies Beneath" but I don't remember the role.

This is a very standard action movie. If you've seen other Schwarzenegger movies like "True Lies" or "Total Recall" you'll get a pretty good idea of what "The 6th Day" is like. Good special effects in a slightly futuristic world. A lot of movies do the future as either some sort of dystopian nightmare or as some sort of over-commercial parody, and this movie falls into the latter category, though not heavily. The XFL must have paid big money to get itself featured at the beginning of the movie. Instead of the NFL, we see an XFL game with the XFL logo plastered everywhere and Vince McMahon even makes an appearance.

All in all though, it is an entertaining movie. Rather mindless, you don't have to do any great thinking here. Sit back and enjoy the spectacle. Other action movies I've seen recently are "Charlie's Angels", and "The Art of War". "Charlie's Angels" is better than "The 6th Day" but they're all good movies representing their genre well and you can't really go wrong watching "The 6th Day".