Splice

How can this film be so terrible?! the cast, the idea , the production backing all is amazing but as much as the "science" twist on this film its filled with troupes. The characters feel inconsistent and just not well developed enough. Too much seems to be crammed into the film, if it took some time to develop the story/character relationships the science or the there doesnt need to have so many twists and turns. its feel unstatifying as a sci-fi film, horror film, romantic drama, mother-daughter-family dysfunction, (dry) comedy?!I cringed during the last 15 mins, saw it coming but omg no!

The stupidly of the female scientist is too much to take. She raises the “subject” like its her child, then when the subject grows into “adolescence” and needs freedom and friendship the scientist goes off her rocker and acts like a scientist again. Mother, mother, boom... cold calculating scientist. The scientist is overly arrogant with every move she makes. About ready to puke.

Scientist plays with DNA and creates a monster. The two scientists were just too stereotypical and trendy to add any credibility to the "old and tired" story. The makeup was good with the monster so I gave it a two, otherwise I probably would have rated it a one.

Not at all bad for a genetic creature-feature. Uses the tired tropes of "seductive female monster that'll kill you." Of course the genetic experiment is female; of course the female scientist is blinded by misplaced maternal instincts and is thus mostly responsible for the mayhem; of course the male scientist (initially clear-headed) succumbs to the succubus's wiles. Blah-blah-blah. If you engage your brain and sense of decency, these things are truly annoying. Best seen, I suspect, when a little drunk and/or high, thereby inhibiting higher cortical functioning. Then? Kinda fun.

a couple of scientists decide to hybridize human dna with...a different but compatible gene set. many jokes were made of a stanford biologist who attempted the same thing in the 1930s. well, SOMEONE was going to (and is, if only at the level of a virus such as this one). that is setting aside the ancient technique of selective breeding (which has yielded cats with faces too flat to breathe, dogs with legs not long enough to walk on, etc.). the outcome leaps past enormous impediments to become a sexually ambiguous and highly intelligent chimera. this being is a side event of the real pursuit (of a protein). after all that exertion, it develops rapidly into an adolescent, a seductress, and finally a male hunter. an interesting (if implausible) beginning point, that leaves science far behind, inclining instead to an ethical and emotional tangle of emergencies and dilemmas.

I saw this movie once before on cable and I enjoyed the possibilities presented in this sci-fi terror. I watched it twice since I ordered it. It is believable and interesting! I like Adrian Brody as an actor as well. He has a vulnerability and something like the premise of the movie could very well happen. We never know what Pandora's boxes we can open. I would love to see a Part II.

The basic premise of this story, both original and timely, will undoubtedly become a new classical theme in SF literature and cinema. The "creature" in this story is compared in many reviews to the Frankenstein monster. But Dr. Frankenstein's creature, as the saying goes, could have been loved only by its mother - Mary Shelley. What if Dr. Frankenstein had created an androgynous creature that was at one moment a captivating and love-struck female, and at the next a hideous and vindictive monster? The results are heart-wrenching. Although the CG effects in this production were breathtaking and flawlessly executed, I could give it only 3 stars due to the pervasive "PIS" (Plot Induced Stupidity), and the unconvincing portrayal of Elsa by actress Sarah Polley. Clive Nicoli, Adrien Brody's character, was well acted but weak beyond plausibility - probably because the role was written and directed that way. The other actors turned in very decent performances. Delphine Chaneac as Dren - the adult creature - and Abigail Chu, as the child creature, were both totally captivating.

This film has a lot of dark symbolism and issues about ethics that may disturb the average viewer. Overall it is a great film for true sci-fi/horror buffs who enjoy over the top, campy tales about shapeshifters, alien-like beings, human genetic experimentation and evolution gone wrong. The plot is very original and it ties into a lot of gnostic angelic/demonic allegories. It’s a very enjoyable film when viewed symbolically. There’s nothing else out there quite like it!

A full in-depth review of Splice will hopefully be available soon on my own film and TV review site (link in my Amazon profile!)Looking back, it's hard to believe that I'd gone almost a decade without ever hearing of splice. I mean it has one of my favourite directors, Guillermo Del Toro, attached as an executive producer and given the things the film gets into, how I had never heard of this? It was only thanks to a screening of it in university that I ever saw this... and I spent a significant amount of time just processing what I had seen. It's been a while since my first viewing, and having got my head around it... I don't think it's a good film. It's an OK film, with pretty serious issues that weigh it down... but it's a fascinating one nonetheless. I can't talk much about the actual plot without spoiling it, but I will warn you that if you do choose to watch this, be prepared to suspend your disbelief big time and prepare to encounter some massive gaps in logic during the first act. One thing's for certain: from my point of view as a Film Studies student, I could talk forever about Splice. There is so much in here: abjection, anxieties of genetic mutation, and enough to apply so much Freudian psychology that you could choke a Basking Shark with it. I could write tons about Splice in essays, and in fact I have done. Like I say, I can't call it a good film, and I mostly bought the DVD to capture some screenshots for that essay. Still it's an admirable film, with a whole bunch of content packed in. If you're feeling adventurous, maybe give it a try...

Plot outline is that two bio-tech scientists are given the job of creating hybrid chimera's for medical research but without thinking of the consequences, after the company wants them to start pushing to market and away from what the two scientists want to work on, the two decide to add human DNA to one of their creations and things start to take a disturbing direction.I was expecting something incredibly spooky and had been lead to believe it was a sort of Alien type of sci-fi horror story, but it's nothing of the sort, not gore to speak of and nothing too unexpected. As the film goes on you actually start to feel incredibly sorry for the genetic mutation.The acting is way off and I'm sorry to say the human characters in the story of quite detached from reality and dare I say quite cardboard as generic cliche "oh-what-have-we-done-playing-God" science types. The script seems more an excuse to go into a 90 minute diatribe about the moral implications that will be thrown up as we go screaming towards our own "Splice" style experiments. However I do have to give the writer credit for not just trotting out the same old tired moral arguments and actually trying to cover more emotional implications of creating new life, such topics as love, hate, jealousy and even incest are covered in this story.Don't expect any nasty gore or anything too creepy, it's not that sort of film it's chance to air the moral, ethical and emotional baggage that goes with playing God. It's rated 15 but take out the swearing and tone down some the slightly more "gory" character actions and it could easily pass for a 12.I did enjoy it overall, it's not a bad story but seems a little too much "made for TV". Worth buying but don't watch it immediately, keep it handy for a Saturday evening when you've nowhere to go and nothing better to do.

I rather liked most of this Canadian-French film, with the exception of last 10 minutes, which were very weak and disappointing.I believe that it is hardly a SPOILER to say, that this film is basically about two geneticists, Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley), colleagues, friends and lovers, who, after facing budget cuts decide to make an illegal experiment, by cloning a chimera made of a mixture of DNA from a human, animals and the DNA of a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO), a kind of huge worm, which they earlier (legally) created. The result of this illegal experiment will be a fascinating quasi-human intelligent creature, a little girl, which with time, for reasons you have to discover yourself, they will call Dren (Delphine Chaneac). Some more limited SPOILERS ahead.Maybe it is because I have myself two young children, but rather than the SciFi elements I immediately rather focused on the child they brought to the world and what would become of her. Because they are afraid of consequences and still not certain if they will allow Dren to even live, Clive and Elsa hide her - and so ipso facto they keep her prisoner. Therefore, as far as my personal perception is concerned, this film is mostly about a little girl who was denied her childhood and who suffers for a extended period continuous abuse from her "parents" - or maybe rather should we call them her "abductors"?This is a sad film and a sad story and although Clive and Elsa try to bring some light into Dren's life, she nevertheless still lives in a prison, locked and watched by her gaolers. Being different from humans, she grows fast and as she enters the adolescence, she finally starts to rebel - as all adolescents do. And because of what she is, she has tools to rebel as no other adolescents have...This film is also a kind of study in double, mutual entrapment, because exactly as Dren is being kept under lock by her "parents", they are also stuck with her... Vincenzo Natali, who earlier made the quite impressive "Cube", leads this story very skillfully for almost the whole duration of the film and he rather intelligently describes Dren's late teens rebellion until a breaking point is reached and she severs her emotional links first with her "mother" and then, even more radically, with her "father". This liberation and coming of age (showed in a very Freudian scene between Dren and Clive) is quite beautifully symbolized by her deploying of wings... This final rebellion is also a punishment inflicted to both Clive and Elsa for their cowardly failure to provide the necessary love and care to the child they brought into this world...Sadly, at that moment the director took the film in the completely wrong direction and as the result, what could be a very honest SciFi philosphical tale, crashed and exploded in flames. The last 10 minutes of the film are horribly bad and do not make the slightest sense, at least as far as my personal taste is concerned. This is the reason, why I think this film desserves only three stars.But still, I do not regret that I watched it, as it has many touching moments and for most of its duration it is quite good. And it certainly touched me and made me think many times since, about this little strange looking girl with a tail, living her sad, lonely existence locked in basements and barns. About Dren, who never got a chance...

Aan experiment to make a new life form goes well when a male and female god knows what they are seem to accept each other,but two doctors break the number one law,NO HUMANS ,as they try they get a baby at first with legs and no arms that grows larger each day as they wanted children and to stay out of trouble they take the girl away to somewhere safe,by this time she has arms and is forming into a woman ,but with a tail with a stinger,then one night when she is told off she show s that she has wings,but then things starts to go wrong as she kills the cat and turns on the people that have found out about her and the people who brought her up.this is another good film,recommend it

Left me feeling strangely unsatisfied.... although a decent stab at a Frankenstein update. Brody superb as always, support very good...but science was a little dodgy. Some scenes a tad tasteless. Telegraphed ending.