BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

zetes A bizarre and awful... something or other. I guess the best way to describe it is "80s movie." It kind of starts off as a romantic comedy with some science fiction pieces, but it drifts into a weird melodrama as it nears the end. Peter O'Toole stars and really isn't that bad, but he can't possibly elevate this terrible script. He plays a professor who does odd, possibly illegal experiments. He wants to clone his long dead wife, for one. He hires Vincent Spano as his research assistant, but Spano doesn't do much besides fall for fellow student Virginia Madsen (who was quite cute at 24). O'Toole meets up with self-described nymphomaniac Mariel Hemmingway, who agrees to donate an egg so O'Toole can regrow his wife in a test tube. Hemmingway sets her sights on becoming O'Toole's wife (I guess Woody Allen was too young for her?). The comedy is lame. The drama elicits more laughs. Near the end, Madsen randomly falls into a coma and Spano overacts by her side. Hemmingway is really annoying in her 1980s proto-manic pixie dreamgirl role. David Ogden Stiers makes for an uninteresting villain. Just a huge mess.

Quentintarantado The great Peter O'Toole is an eccentric scientist trying to clone his wife, Mariel Hemingway is the easily orgasmic young woman who provides the egg and an incredibly hot Virginia Madsen (the third time I saw her, after "Electric Dreams" and "Dune"; she was hot in the eighties, thank God for "Sideways" resurrecting her career)is Vincent Spano's love interest. The movie careens from science fiction to romantic comedy to drama and it's all tied together by a melancholic piano melody by Sylvester Levay.I think the comedy was quite good but what made the movie memorable was this sense of sadness. Maybe it's because of the score, maybe it's because of the topic, when the characters deal with the loss of a loved one. Maybe because of Peter O'Toole.I don't know what O'Toole had been through but occasionally when he isn't saying anything, when he just peers over his glasses in wordless comment over something silly, something tragic or something absolutely wonderful, he can convey a world-weary sympathy with that other person as if he's saying, "yes, that happened to me too."

DrPostman I don't rate films often, but the rating (5.8) seemed so low to me that I had to offer a comment or two. This film is a true gem, and one of the best films I have ever seen Peter O'Toole act in. David Ogden Stiers is great as a "bad guy" who isn't bad at all. Virginia Madsen is absolutely gorgeous (it has been years since I last saw this film but I still remember that shower scene). Even Hemmingway, who I don't usually like, puts in a good performance. This is a very touching romance story, that also deals a lot with letting go, but not giving up. It also doesn't get too preachy about the morals of genetic engineering. I did keep thinking through the film that even if he could bring his wife back it still wouldn't be the person he loved so much, no matter how much he wanted that. A great film that deserves a better rating.

alienlabs When I first saw this movie I had to wait several days before realizing it was a "good movie". In the beginning it rather made me think to some teenage movie but I soon had to admit that it was getting much better than that.A teenage movie would put accent on romance, while "Creator" also remarks, somehow, the sexual side of relationships... making the whole movie feel like being more "honest" than the average. Situations are smart and funny, the characters are lovely. Dialogues are so well written that the movie has that certain "Instant Classic" feeling on its side: you can take almost any line from it and still it sounds like a funny quote.