I was the only person at the early matinée. I'm thinking everyone else knew something I didn't.
Hollywood loves this story; brilliant young scientists discover the impossible, while other people their age are still working on their dissertations, by ignoring the rules - for which, of course, they must pay a price. And they screw a lot.
Sometimes this can make for classic transgressive fiction, like Jekyll and Hyde. Other times you get Splice, an apt description for this poorly articulated concoction. Good science fiction uses science as a metaphor to explore some essential truth. Splice is all science, if you can call it that, and no fiction, as in the literary kind. It's as shallow as a mud puddle and about as interesting.
In the end, I simply wondered why this movie had to be made. So Adrien Brody could walk around in shirts he got from ThinkGeek.com? And what was with "NERD"? Are you kidding me? Is this supposed to be comedy? Well, I'll say this much. It was definitely laughable.
I have to admit, there was some small diversion in the gene splicing subject, but it wasn't the least bit insightful.
Hollywood loves this story; brilliant young scientists discover the impossible, while other people their age are still working on their dissertations, by ignoring the rules - for which, of course, they must pay a price. And they screw a lot.
Sometimes this can make for classic transgressive fiction, like Jekyll and Hyde. Other times you get Splice, an apt description for this poorly articulated concoction. Good science fiction uses science as a metaphor to explore some essential truth. Splice is all science, if you can call it that, and no fiction, as in the literary kind. It's as shallow as a mud puddle and about as interesting.
In the end, I simply wondered why this movie had to be made. So Adrien Brody could walk around in shirts he got from ThinkGeek.com? And what was with "NERD"? Are you kidding me? Is this supposed to be comedy? Well, I'll say this much. It was definitely laughable.
I have to admit, there was some small diversion in the gene splicing subject, but it wasn't the least bit insightful.