![]() ![]() ![]() Is 'You Hurt My Feelings' Streaming on HBO Max or Netflix? Is 'The Machine' Streaming on HBO Max or Netflix? Is 'Love Again' Streaming on HBO Max or Netflix? ![]() Gwyneth Paltrow Recalls "British Press Being So Horrible" After Her 'Shakespeare in Love' Oscar Win: "Totally Overwhelming" Stream It Or Skip It: 'Royalteen: Princess Margrethe' on Netflix, the Second in a Series of DOA Norwegian Teen Romances It’s actually more laughable than it is frightening or thought-provoking.Seth Rogen Slams Streaming Service Execs for Their "Secretiveness" and "Insane Salaries": "Thank God for These Labor Unions" Scientists may push boundaries, but outside of the disturbing sensuality that bulldozes every other relevant moral dilemma, this film is very much a splice between “Species” (also focused on sexuality) and “Mimic” and “Alien” (what sci-fi horror film doesn’t steal a bit from “Alien,” here nothing more than cliché?), which scores no points for originality. From here, even the once serious, classic science-fiction themes are abandoned for cheap monster movie gimmicks. While it provides humor, it removes audiences almost immediately from the realm of science-fact. The first, largest misstep presented is in the opening scene, with the two lumpy, slimy, brain-like creatures used later for a King Kong freakshow demonstration for their protein producing abilities. No scrutinized reasoning exists behind the actions taken in this film, chiefly in regards to the human/alien hybrid, but also to the utter lack of security in the facility (they load up an enormous box into a van, move Dren from room to room, and use all of the expensive equipment after hours, all without any supervision, questioning, or interference). “Splice” brings up another question: should sex be allowed with the clones? If this sounds absolutely ridiculous, it’s because it is. The question has always been to clone or not to clone. The moral implications, religious outrages, pharmaceutical company profit motivations, and potentially beneficial medical research have all been weighed against one another in an attempt to determine whether or not this level of science is something to pursue. Perhaps satyrs and centaurs are too boring these days.Ĭloning and DNA splicing has always been a subject for debate. She’s half human and half animal, but how did traits of frogs, kangaroos, birds, and scorpions get in there? An experiment this uncontrolled seems less likely to even be considered, let alone come to fruition. Where were the simpler splices of two similar animals to create a hybrid – such as something imaginable, like a fish with a duck? Once Dren makes an appearance, it would appear that the two scientists mixed genes by picking unmarked test tubes out of a hat without knowing what they might be getting. Veiny, gelatinous “new life forms” are the first giant leap into fiction. “Splice” begins by presenting the scientific aspects of bio-engineering with an emphasis on believability, but then skips several steps in trying to keep the audience’s suspension of disbelief intact. Angered by their employers’ lack of foresight, Elsa and Clive secretly conduct their own experiment and create Dren (Delphine Chaneac), a half-human, half-animal hybrid with untold scientific value – and unimaginable danger. Their bosses see only dollar signs, however, and demand that the two scientists forge ahead with protein synthesis rather than taking the next steps into human gene splicing. It may sound weird in print, but it’s even stranger on the screen.īio-engineers Elsa (Sarah Polley) and Clive (Adrian Brody) are on the brink of a complete scientific breakthrough with their latest experiment of molecule creation from a new animal life form. It attempts to surface the moral dilemmas of gene splicing and human cloning but quickly gives way to the ludicrous notions of sex with kangaroo women. The alternating bouts of heavy sci-fi and samplings of creature horror feel unbalanced and so do the film’s messages. Plice” takes a deeply debated subject and treats it with the utmost seriousness for the first half-hour, then slowly digresses into an often uncomfortably bizarre monster movie. ![]()
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