Coming up with a basic understanding of whether or not I liked or disliked the film let alone compiling a review for it has been far more difficult than I predicted. However considering the movie is still constantly on my mind, long after seeing it I feel like it merits some credit.
In the film, we have two brilliant scientists (Polley and Brody) who spend there lives splicing DNA and then the obvious plan to splice human and animal DNA together eventually pops into there heads. The experiment works which creates Dren. That's all I'll say but the rest is pretty obvious.
The first half of the movie is top notch and was almost flawless but at about the half way mark everything gets exponentially weirder and character motivations and actions go out the window. it's hard not to roll your eyes during most of the later scenes in the film as it just goes way out in left field. It all suits the subtle creepiness that the entire film has but it's just too much at times. Also the horror movie finale seems too rushed and it comes in a little too late.
But despite it's flaws, all the good outshines the bad.It succeeds on it's brilliant and refreshingly original premise despite the fact that the actual end result doesn't fill it out to its full potential. The whole film is scary due to it's unsettling subject matter which is really nice to see nowadays.
So when in a world full of horror remakes, clichéd rom-coms and Michael Bay explode-a-thons... go see Splice.
In the film, we have two brilliant scientists (Polley and Brody) who spend there lives splicing DNA and then the obvious plan to splice human and animal DNA together eventually pops into there heads. The experiment works which creates Dren. That's all I'll say but the rest is pretty obvious.
The first half of the movie is top notch and was almost flawless but at about the half way mark everything gets exponentially weirder and character motivations and actions go out the window. it's hard not to roll your eyes during most of the later scenes in the film as it just goes way out in left field. It all suits the subtle creepiness that the entire film has but it's just too much at times. Also the horror movie finale seems too rushed and it comes in a little too late.
But despite it's flaws, all the good outshines the bad.It succeeds on it's brilliant and refreshingly original premise despite the fact that the actual end result doesn't fill it out to its full potential. The whole film is scary due to it's unsettling subject matter which is really nice to see nowadays.
So when in a world full of horror remakes, clichéd rom-coms and Michael Bay explode-a-thons... go see Splice.