SPLICE (2009) MOVIE REVIEW

Storyline

Two young rebellious scientists are told by their employers to halt groundbreaking work that has seen them produce new creatures with medical benefits by splicing together multiple organisms' DNA. They decide to secretly continue their work, but this time splicing in human DNA.


Review

Started out good, ended up not so good, looks like Species takeover

Splice was a movie that had a lot of promise. It seemed to be building towards something special, but got lost in an unnecessary plot thread that didn't quite work towards the end. THis specific plot started with a scene involving the creature and the character played by Adrian Brody, and it was a scene that didn't quite work because there wasn't enough of a build up towards something like that happening. Sure there were some scenes leading towards that, but in my opinion those scenes were not enough to take such a major step forward, not after he first showed disgust towards the creature at the earlier phases of its development. On top of that the movie goes even farther into absurdity at the conclusion, involving the character played by Sarah Polley and the creature again, taking much of the intelligence of the film out of the equation.

In my opinion, it is more like to Species series, the director was onto something in the beginning but then took the story into an unnecessary direction that might've still worked if there had been some real build up to those points which led to the conclusion. Sure there were some signs, but really not enough. Instead the movie ends in what can only be called a total WTF moment, the end is so predictable and it doesn't work at all. Not a horrible movie, but only average and not recommended.

Directed by
Vincenzo Natali

Writing credits (WGA)
Vincenzo Natali		(screenplay) &
Antoinette Terry Bryant		(screenplay) and
Doug Taylor		(screenplay)
Vincenzo Natali		(story) &
Antoinette Terry Bryant		(story)

Cast

	Adrien Brody	...	Clive Nicoli
	Sarah Polley	...	Elsa Kast
	Delphine Chanéac	...	Dren (as Delphine Chaneac)
	Brandon McGibbon	...	Gavin Nicoli
	Simona Maicanescu	...	Joan Chorot
	David Hewlett	...	William Barlow
	Abigail Chu	...	Child Dren