Watched “Splice” this afternoon.
Had the makings of a really good movie, but kinda spiralled out of control at the end. Unno, I thought a more sedate ending would’ve had more impact.
Adrian Brody and Sarah Poley (one of the annoying kids from “Blue Monkey”) are the scientists splicing human DNA with other critters. No “Island Of Dr Moreau” or anything, but nondescript sluglike creatures with “interesting” proteins in their body chemistry. Their lab is being shut down to commercialise what they got already because Mother Co is running short of funds. Meanwhile, one of their own experiments has promise, and they want to “see how far it goes” before the place is shut down for good.
Wellp, it goes farther than they anticipated, and create a critter that turns more human as time goes on. In fact, it shows high intelligence. Nothing as fun as “Species”, definitely slower growing and not as dramatic, but still some surprises along the way.
Once their secret’s outed to Brody’s character’s brother, stuff gets real, and that starts the spiralling. Still, it could’ve ended on a more sedate note as I mentioned, but nope, things went allllllllll to Hell just when you thought it was finally over. Ugh.
Up until about the last 10-15min or so, it was an awesome flick. Then… what?? It’s almost like, “Hmm, we didn’t have a ‘Species’-like explosive scene this whole movie so far… let’s add one now… and make it the ending!”. :person_facepalming:
Still worth a watch. You might even like the come-with ending, unno.