Sadly Over-hyped

Absolutely Fantastic

A lot of fun.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This is the digimodern Frankenstein. Also, having studied the Book of Enoch, I know already the worst that could happen, because it already did some 45,000 years ago when the dark-hearted angelic beings mated with the daughters of men (Nephilim the result, who ruled the planet until they were wiped out by the Flood and battle against one another) and the monsters so well preserved in Greek mythology (Medusa, Minotaur, Cyclops, etc.) This film ramps up slowly, but it does ramp up to Jurassic Park proportions before it ends on a soft note of utterly confused human reflection. Watch this one only if you can handle lots of blood, the f-word, super freakiness, rape, humanocentric haughtiness beyond belief, and the Jersey Devil.

The movie is a solid sci-fi drama with bits of horror and thriller thrown in. It shows how a person's personal interests when in pursuit of a goal at any cost can lead to suffering and destruction. Unfortunately, whoever did the trailers for this movie really dropped the ball by making it look like a sci-fi monster movie in the same vein as Pandorum. If I had to guess I think that is where most of the vitriol from the reviews are from. The most negative thing I can say about the movie is that it does suffer from technobabble at times and the main adult characters seem ignorant about the consequences for their actions to the point of incompetence towards their jobs. If you can find this movie it deserves a watch simply to see a fresh breath of air in the nostalgia driven sci-fi of the 2010's.

Splice is one of the best science fiction movies I have seen. Although being more a fan of space expeditions and this movie belongs to the advanced genetic engineering genre, it indeed captivated me for the full duration of the movie. The story is brilliant, but personally I feel the climax could have been much better. The last five minutes changed the flow of the story and took it to another level, a notch below where it should have actually gone. I was really confused about what actually happened. Though Elsa tells in a few words about what had happened, it was hard for me to digest it for some time. The movie raised more questions than answers by the time I completed watching. May be that itself was the purpose of the film. Then again, the closing scene was a relief. Overall I give 8/10 for the story, the flow, the effects and the characters - especially Dren!

The story offers quite a promising premise, despite it's not the first time. Unfortunately the plot becomes a little bit predictable once Elsa decides against Clive in killing the baby Dren. It goes on normally for an already predicted plot but then the plot gives away big time when Fred and Ginger show their claws and start fighting. The predictability is also done by the trailer that was giving out too much detail. That makes the only decently nice twist in the movie to be when Dren suddenly grows wings. The character developments are very imbalanced and quite unclear. Clive's character doesn't really get developed right. How can he turn from one that wanted to kill the experiment to someone that would make out with it? Also the number of characters is too small for this kind of movie to work. It should at least have two more characters to give the story more color. The acting is a standard job in overall. Adrien Brody gets quite confused in expressions when acting out the various emotions in different scenes. Sarah Polley did quite okay on the expressions, but her dialog has emotions missing here and there.