CULTURE OF DEATH BUILDS A BRIDGE TO "THE ISLAND".

On leaving a theater, have you ever been tempted to yell at the other moviegoers, "Hey, guys: Do ya get it? Do you know what this is about?

That's what I wanted to do when the lights came up and the credits started to roll for Michael Bay's just-released sci-fi block-buster "The Island." "Cloning! Embryonic stem cell research! Abortion! Euthanasia!" I wanted to shout.

Still, "The Island's" pro-life message is unmistakable. Liberal critics are grumbling about it. Writing in the Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt complains that "These filmmakers have, perhaps unwittingly, delivered a film certain to give succor to the religious right." Oh, no!

It's intriguing to speculate on whether Bay or DreamWorks actually knew what they were doing. Is Bay -- best known for action films like "Pearl Harbor" and "Armageddon" -- a deep-cover agent for Pope Benedict XVI? Doubtful. It's more likely the film's message is inadvertent. Unless it's delivering the standard PC pabulum, there isn't much forethought in Hollywood.

Intentionally or not, "The Island" is "Schindler's List" for the biotech Holocaust underway. The film is set in a not-too-distant future where human cloning has been perfected. Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson play human clones -- Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta -- raised in an underground desert facility, called "The Institute."

They've been conditioned to believe they're survivors of a worldwide "contamination," waiting to be sent to an island paradise (the last uncontaminated place on earth) to begin the process of rebuilding. In reality, they're walking organ farms -- created to replenish the kidneys, hearts, skin and other vitals of wealthy sponsors. The Institute's staff refer to them as "the product" -- you know, like "products of conception," in abortion-ese.

When it's harvest-time, instead of being sent to the island, unlucky winners of the not-so-random lottery go to an operating room where their organs are removed and the product is terminated. Clones are even impregnated. After giving birth, the clone-mother is given a lethal injection on the delivery table (in a sort of reverse abortion), and the baby delivered to its sponsor family.