DreamWorks Pictures

Michael Bay isn't exactly known for making the smartest films, as Ben Affleck so amusingly pointed out in the commentary for "Armageddon." You could argue Bay makes the dumbest yet visually most bombastic action flicks that are pure explosion/gun operas. By that standard, his 2005 action-sci-fi, "The Island," starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, may have been his most complex movie. That's not to say it was wholly original since it was practically a remix of more provocative sci-fis like Michael Anderson's " Logan's Run " and Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report," a derivative pastiche spiced up by Bay's megalomaniacal tendencies. Yet I wish he made more like it instead of the atrocious "Transformers" films that once dominated .

"The Island" follows Lincoln Six Echo (McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Johansson), living in an underground compound in a society operating by strict rules.…