states, but 3 million total. By Bay standards, it was an embarrassment. But the strange thing is, it is actually one of Bay’s more interesting films, the one that might actually be seen as something of a lost gem. The story, which was accused of plagorizing the 1979 film “Parts: The Clonus Horror” as well as elements from the novel “Spares” and Philip K. Dick’s “the Penultimate Truth,” is a science fiction/escape tale about Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson trying to escape from a contaminated America to reach “the Island,” a place inhabitable in the wasteland. There are lots of silly “clone” plot points and silly coma drama, but it was at least an interesting divergence from Bay’s usually shtick. The worst thing about the film, and something which would become a trend with Bay, was his use of prominent and obvious product placement: including,