Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

torstensonjohn Splice is a Sci-Fi based film with supposed horror involved. There is no horror, just science based theme with utilization of DNA to manipulate nature. Two carefree scientists Brody and Polley who inject human DNA into a hybrid and come up with a part human, part reptile, part amphibious flying creature. Polley's character Elsa becomes so overly attached that it is scary.It's a well paced film with an unorthodox script detailing the growth of this hybrid and how it affects the tow scientist's lives. Throughout the film the focus is on the creature aptly named Dren and how it progresses. Greg Nicotero (TWD) had his hands in the design of the creature which is actually very well done.The film itself is carried by the story of how to have composite DNA interjected with other hybrids to create proteins or other chemical compounds to ward of or fight disease. I like the film, BUT there are flaws as it is predictable, little character development, but enjoyable nonetheless. I give it a solid 5/10

Liju James Splice is one of the best science fiction movies I have seen. Although being more a fan of space expeditions and this movie belongs to the advanced genetic engineering genre, it indeed captivated me for the full duration of the movie. The story is brilliant, but personally I feel the climax could have been much better. The last five minutes changed the flow of the story and took it to another level, a notch below where it should have actually gone. I was really confused about what actually happened. Though Elsa tells in a few words about what had happened, it was hard for me to digest it for some time. The movie raised more questions than answers by the time I completed watching. May be that itself was the purpose of the film. Then again, the closing scene was a relief. Overall I give 8/10 for the story, the flow, the effects and the characters - especially Dren!

Lucabrasisleeps I have wanted to see this movie for a long time since I checked out a few of Vincenzo Natali's movies sometime before. I finally saw it today. I am not satisfied at all. What I saw was a movie which was confused about which tone to take, what direction to move and so on. First, the whole pretty boy scientist thing totally turned me off. I didn't really take these two seriously as brilliant scientists. But there are many other problems with the movie. Honestly speaking, the movie could have been a brilliant thought provoking sci fi(like say, Moon) or an action/horror/sci fi movie (like say, Species) or a trashy 80s style movie(like say, Humanoids from the deep). If the filmmakers were able to decide the path properly, it could have been happened. Instead it is too stupid to be a thought provoking sci fi. It is too slow to be an effective action horror movie. It has very few scenes of nudity or violence to be a trashy 80s style movie. The movie IMO meanders aimlessly and it drags quite a bit for the most part. Most of the themes in the movie were dealt with in superior sci fi films. And they were dealt with in better ways in those movies. It has too many clichés and the mad scientist trope, playing with nature stuff has been done to death now. This movie has not broken new ground in any way. Hell, to some extent, it reminded me of inferior films such as Species(which at least had copious nudity to compensate).Then there is the entertainment factor. In a movie with so much trash potential, the sex scenes are a huge disappointment. Maybe Vincenzo natali doesn't have the trashy sensibility to make such a movie. And where are the big twists, the snappy screenplay? It doesn't seem to be made by the same filmmaker of Cube or Cypher. The ending left me yawning. Is that the supposed shock ending?Maybe we should bring back Roger corman or someone like that to make such movies. Altogether I give it a 4/10.

Johan Dondokambey The story offers quite a promising premise, despite it's not the first time. Unfortunately the plot becomes a little bit predictable once Elsa decides against Clive in killing the baby Dren. It goes on normally for an already predicted plot but then the plot gives away big time when Fred and Ginger show their claws and start fighting. The predictability is also done by the trailer that was giving out too much detail. That makes the only decently nice twist in the movie to be when Dren suddenly grows wings. The character developments are very imbalanced and quite unclear. Clive's character doesn't really get developed right. How can he turn from one that wanted to kill the experiment to someone that would make out with it? Also the number of characters is too small for this kind of movie to work. It should at least have two more characters to give the story more color. The acting is a standard job in overall. Adrien Brody gets quite confused in expressions when acting out the various emotions in different scenes. Sarah Polley did quite okay on the expressions, but her dialog has emotions missing here and there.