![]() ![]() ![]() Even when the movie becomes a bit predictable towards the end, it never ceases to be entertaining, which is good. The script of the film, from director Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant, and Doug Taylor, finds the right balance between the dramatic, the pseudo-scientific, the horror, and the comedy you need to make a movie like this work without falling into the trap of being too moralistic, stupid, or worse, boring. Since they get all the screen time, they have to be able to hold the audience’s attention, and they do that very well. It’s a good balance that plays to the strengths of the two actors. Sarah Polley, who got her big break in Dawn Of The Dead, returns to the monster genre as the boundaries-pushing ‘science is its own reward’-type Elsa, while Oscar-winner Adrien Brody can always be counted on to give a good performance, and is very good here as the more reasonable member of the duo of postmodern Doctors Frankenstein.īrody in particular gets some good dialog, as he’s the quirky one of the duo and gets all the jokes, while Polley gets to be the more emotive, serious one. Splice is buoyed by having an excellent cast. The end result of their experiments, which dance with the forbidden by using a little segment of human DNA, is Dren. Splice is more like a 1950’s sci-fi movie with a bit more edge and better monster effects or, perhaps a family drama, only one of the family members is a monster made up of weirdly recombining DNA that randomly mutates and causes the youngest family member to randomly grow wings and age at a shockingly fast rate. Of course, given that I brought up the nature of trailers, the movie isn’t that. Splice, in every trailer I’ve ever seen for it, is being sold like a classic science-gone-wrong monster movie, in which Dren (played as a child by Abigail Chu and as a teen/adult by Delphine Chaneac) basically goes off the rails and starts doing evil things with her stinger tail and general creepy appearance. If you stick a bad trailer with a good movie, or a boring trailer with a fun movie (ahem, Jennifer’s Body, paging Jennifer’s Body), I just get irritated. Your trailer can be bad, but so long as the movie itself is a piece of crap, I’m fine with that. There’s nothing I dislike more than a misleading trailer. Call me crazy (“You’re crazy!”) but it’s a lot of fun to me to see how people, studios, or whoever decide to encapsulate the essence of their 90 minute movie into a couple of fleeting moments. I watch a lot of movies, and I watch a lot of movie trailers. ![]()
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