Splice looked good, sounded good, obviously spent some money on production quality. But still, bad writing cannot be disguised.
Much of the dialogue was flat, unreal, and downright silly. Think: "Sure is quiet... yeah, too quiet." Twenty percent of the dialogue is THAT bad.
The ease with which these two characters perform their secret experiments was silly. At one point Elsa jumps into the lab while Clive bangs on the locked door outside. Voila! Ten seconds later a complicated scientific procedure is complete! That was easy.
The main characters took turns playing good cop/bad cop so many times I couldn't follow the story. First, Clive is the voice-of-reason, he tries to talk sense into Elsa. Then he goes crazy, taking the laws of God, nature, and the United States into his own hands; Elsa tries to stop him. Then back, then forth, then back again, and forth again. Neither of these two people could decide what their motivation was, what they wanted.
I didn't care about anybody on the screen. I nearly walked out, but forced myself to stay, just to see what happens.
The special effects were good. And the story was laced THICK with all the current real-life arguments about DNA manipulation, human cloning and experimenting, etc. So the movie is closely tied to today's science and politics, and touches many sides of many arguments.
I should've waited to rent it.
Much of the dialogue was flat, unreal, and downright silly. Think: "Sure is quiet... yeah, too quiet." Twenty percent of the dialogue is THAT bad.
The ease with which these two characters perform their secret experiments was silly. At one point Elsa jumps into the lab while Clive bangs on the locked door outside. Voila! Ten seconds later a complicated scientific procedure is complete! That was easy.
The main characters took turns playing good cop/bad cop so many times I couldn't follow the story. First, Clive is the voice-of-reason, he tries to talk sense into Elsa. Then he goes crazy, taking the laws of God, nature, and the United States into his own hands; Elsa tries to stop him. Then back, then forth, then back again, and forth again. Neither of these two people could decide what their motivation was, what they wanted.
I didn't care about anybody on the screen. I nearly walked out, but forced myself to stay, just to see what happens.
The special effects were good. And the story was laced THICK with all the current real-life arguments about DNA manipulation, human cloning and experimenting, etc. So the movie is closely tied to today's science and politics, and touches many sides of many arguments.
I should've waited to rent it.