ThiefHott Too much of everything

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

MBunge I've been bored by movies before, but this is the first time I've ever watched a movie that's bored with itself.As yet another version of the classic story (which the film itself specifically notes), this time around it concerns medical students who make and use their own party drugs. Henry "J" Jekyll (Bryan Fisher) is one of the students who tries to create a personality-altering drug, ends up unleashing a violent persona who calls himself Hyde and yadda, yadda, yadda, you know how the story goes.At least you'd better know how it goes, because this movie isn't at all interested in telling the actual story. It doesn't tell much of any story. If you had somehow never heard of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde before, you'd have virtually no clue as to what this movie is trying to do because most of that tale is missing. The elemental struggle of man against his darker self is only briefly and shallowly touched upon. Most of that conflict, the essential nature of the Jekyll/Hyde story, is left off the screen. It's as though the audience is supposed to just fill it in on their own as they watch.What we do get is what seems like an entire film made up of deleted scenes, all the stuff that wasn't very good, wasn't really necessary or didn't really contribute to the plot. The best way I can describe this movie is to ask you to imagine some making a 5 hour long Jekyll and Hyde movie. Now imagine them editing the weakest and least interesting 97 minutes out of that film. Now imagine the original video got destroyed and they had to go back and splice together that 97 minutes of cut footage to try and make a movie out of that.The people who made this film also apparently know how to shoot a movie but don't know the meaning of anything they do. For example, throughout the film there moments when we're shown a scary door. The door keeps showing up and we keep moving closer and closer to it. The idea clearly is to create some dramatic tension – What is the door? Where is it? What does it mean? What's on the other side? But when we finally get to the door in the story, not only is it just a door and not only is there nothing really interesting on the other side, but the movie actually shows us everything on the other side before we get to door. The door is opened and it's just the stuff we've been watching for the last 15 minutes. It's like a game show where they show you what's behind Curtain # 3…and then ask you to guess what's behind Curtain #3.The acting in this movie is okay, given that no one's ever really has to be much more than standard horror movie cannon fodder. Bryan Fisher, though, really fails with one of the naturally great roles in fiction. Not only is his Jekyll nothing more than a cliché, but his Hyde is a joke. Mr. Hyde is supposed to be savage, threatening and monstrous. Fisher's Hyde is like a 20-something douchebag who's watched too many John Woo movies.The only redeeming feature in this story is that it suggests interpreting the Jekyll/Hyde dynamic in terms of the modern understanding of addiction - Jekyll being a junkie and Hyde being the high he's desperately chasing. But other than having a character specifically refer to that idea out loud, nothing ever comes of it.Jekyll+Hyde isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but it might be the most pointless. The filmmakers were clearly bored with just telling another version of the story, didn't have anything new or different to add to it, but still went ahead with making the movie anyway.

wrlang Jekyll + Hyde is about a young college student that experiments with drugs and winds up creating a potion that allows him to change his personality and appearance. It also shortens his temper and prompts him to do bad things like kill and torture people. Jekyll isn't much better than Hyde in this remake. This is a pretty close take off on the original plot, but its not mediocre acting. It just didn't come across as a believable story. The plot was good and the dialog was passable, but the execution of the scenes came across as hollow and a little false. There were some entertaining parts and the cinematography was good.

Diaboliqa666 So, to start things off I must say I am a purist at heart and strongly believe that if you are going to make/remake a beloved story you should try to stay as faithful to it as possible, otherwise it's a big F U to the person who wrote it and those who love it, basically you are saying "I could do this soooo much better than you" and in this case they were so completely and utterly wrong.The basic plot sounded OK - nerd hates being nerd, uses his nerd super powers in a chemical lab to make a magical drug that changes nerds personality into cool guys personality, but something goes wrong. A step away from the original idea I know, but hey they may have been able to update it and do it better....WRONG!!! The only part of this movie that even remotely stayed true to the original tale is the "there was something wrong with the drugs you got me" section. In the original story the purity of the drugs needed by Jekyll can not be found and he chucks a bit of a wobbly.The idea behind the story of Jekyll and Hyde is the monstrous other inside all people. Hyde is the complete opposite to Jekyll, this much they got right - but Hyde is supposed to be a twisted freak, he looks evil because he is evil, he kills when the opportunity arrives, he doesn't seek out victims, he is unarticulated and slightly slow, and I really can't remember him being all that sexually active because every time someone sees him their blood runs cool. The idea of the tale is that every human has a balance of good evil, if you try and bring out one side over the other the opposite side withers. Jekyll becomes weak and cannot change back, it is not completely his dependence on drugs that makes him revert to Hyde constantly it is Hyde's increased strength brought about by over flexing of the evil side of the personality.This movie is a travesty. It takes a rather intelligent investigation of the human personality/soul (written before psychology was as popular as it is today - in-fact I don't think it existed at the time) and turned into a party drug induced attempt at a slasher movie. The atmosphere is horrible, you spend about half an hour of the ending in complete blackness. You don't get any idea of a linear story line, Jekyll / Hyde shows flashes of memory of doing horrible things, but they last for two seconds and there is no explanation for any of it at all. It is marketed, I am guessing, as a slasher movie but doesn't contain enough blood to fit the category. The Director tried to be to artsy and it just comes off as badly planned, poorly written with an ending slapped on at the last minute. And, most objectionable of all, they turned it into a bloody love story. Jekyll and Hyde has no place for love, it has nothing to do with love, it has to do with good and evil, mad scientists and what can happen to you if you mess with the divine balance.THIS MOVIE SUCKS.Thank you for your time.

biggin101 Saw this one the other night. Honestly,I have never seen or heard of it before. But was delighted at the acting and the storyline. Some of the scenes get pretty intense,and every now and then the story kinda goes off to never never land. But all in all this was and is a great movie to see. Not sure if its "Theater" quality but definitely worth seeing. Most of the stars I have never heard of before,but the cast did a really great job. Biggest issue I have with this movie is the beginning. I won't elaborate anymore ,you will figure it out. Its a bit slow at times,but trust me,its worth the wait.A bit of T@A in it,just enough to make it presentable. Also a lot of the "effects" are pretty good and believable..