Wednesday 10 February 2016

Back review: Splice 2009

Splice
Year: 2009
Actors: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley and Delphine Chanéac
Length: 104 minutes

Splice sees two genetic scientists\engineers Clive nicoli ( Brody) and Elsa kast ( Polley) trying to achieve fame by splicing some different animal DNA together. Yeah I know this shit never goes to plan does it, well they are making hybrids for some company called N.e.r.d what an acronym right?
I forget what it stands for right now research and development is the last two. Anyway they've had some luck in the field by creating what the call a veriform they call Fred. He's dog sized and made to be a mate for the female version called ginger.
This works well so they decide its time to try human hybridisation (that's a big word for me) of course nerd forbid them to do this, well I say of course 9\10 its the evil company who sees an opportunity for gain saying yes.
They are told to extract genes or proteins from Fred and ginger for commercial drug use. This doesn't deter them from pursuing their goal in their own time. In which they make a female human veriform, which they agreed to terminate before it became anything substantial, Elsa persuades Clive to let it come to term.
In typical fashion the hybrid becomes aggressive she attacks Elsa who lives, but then in an effort to escape sheds some of her parts possibly to look more human. She still gets caught.
Testing sees she is aging at an excelerated rate and is confused, Elsa feels for it, which it has made a name for itself, Dren yes its nerd backwards, groan, Clive is no longer allowed to call her specimen anymore. The movie gets a little confused at times with Clive trying to kill Dren by drowning, but it turns out she's amphibious. neglect their other experiments in the meantime ginger has strangely turned male and attacked Fred.
The latter half of this film concerns them looking after Dren Clive bonking her, much to Elsa's disgust, but he talks his way out of it, weird hey?
Earlier after another attack they remove Dren's stinger, the enzymes in this are discovered by someone from nerd to be human DNA, also to hold lots of new patents for drugs. So a doctor from nerd goes to confront them, I won't spoil the end of the film as you know I rarely do rest assured it's as odd and sketchy as the rest of the film.
I did not dislike this film but I wish I'd watched something else rather than it, it may end up being your cup of tea but here at THN I give it a two star and a meh rating, watch if there's nothing else on\available.

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