SPLICE

I JUST GOT BACK FROM A LONG, STRENOUS VACATION SO PLEASE EXCUSE THE BREVITY OF THIS REVIEW. I HAD SEEN SPLICE AROUND 2 WEEKS AGO.


Okay, now I know what you're thinking: Where's the witty headliner???? Sorry folks, the sad answer is that there isn't one. WHY??? Because Splice has left me in such shock and so destroyed my expectations of what I believed I was going to see that I am currently unable to come up with any witty one-liners.

Splice is the story of a mad scientist couple, Clive (Adrian Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley), that are really good at creating their own unique animal species. Ready to move onto the next step which involves using human DNA, they are crushed when they learn the organization funding their research has denied them access to continue. Unfortunately, Elsa won't take no for an answer and convinces Clive to forge onwards and create another unique animal species that ends up holding unimaginable consequences for both.

Splice is curently being advertised as a "Horror" film. Honestly, I found the film much more disturbing than scary. Splice acts more as a mixture of character study and frankenstein-esque parable about the dangers of playing God than it does as a horror film. The film isn't necessarily a "Bad' film because I walked in expecting a horror film and got something completely spine-chillingly different. I enjoyed not knowing what was going to happen next. The film does make some risky (SPOILER: or should I say Risque) decisions plot-wise and does have its characters make several interesting decisions, but as I was saying that doesn't make it a bad film; and when in the last 20 or 30 minutes the film decides to attempt to make good on its horror billing the effort falls kind of flat since by that time I found that I couldn't care less about the 2 bumbling idiots on the screen. But it's not a bad film. It's a perfectly good science-fiction film.

While I found that Splice wasn't made for me I'm positive that there are those out there that would LOVE this cool little disturbing flick. So, go ahead, conduct your own experiment and see if Splice is right for you. What's the worst that can happen?

3/5