What makes it worth watching are the two leads.
It’s a sort of sci-fi/horror film that does its best to throw in a few moral dilemmas that scientists have to face when it comes to how far they take their work in the lab. You can probably guess that their new ‘addition’ to their family is hardly a glowing success (otherwise it would be a pretty dull film!), so I won’t say too much. In this case they even take their creation home with them and it grows into quite an interesting beast. Adrian Broody and Sarah Polley play a couple of scientists who create a creature in a lab, but, in the tradition of all mad scientists, they take things a little too far. I would definitely say that it’s worth watching for the most part. I enjoyed the first two thirds, but I didn’t feel that it fell apart towards the end. However, now I’ve decided to write a review, no sooner have I logged on to see what other people thought, did I read another review’s title saying something like, ‘Good beginning, not so good end.’ That pretty much sums up my thoughts on the film. So, basically, I do think it’s a good enough film to watch more than once. After that viewing, I bought it and have now seen it again. The first time I saw it, I hired it on DVD. I’ve just watched ‘Splice’ for the second time. It did, after all, provoke major debate in my household! (We were still picking it apart nearly two hours after it ended!) But be prepared to be let-down like no other film I can think of! I wholeheartedly recommend you see the film.
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(Imagine how monumentally frustrating Twin Peaks would have been if David Lynch had condensed it into a movie rather than into the beautifully nuanced and perambulatory masterpiece of television that it ended up as!)
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Again and again I wished the filmmakers had put their energies into a TV series. There were so many themes to be explored and yet, having to shoehorn so many into a conventional film's running time meant that any such exploration was only superficial. The relentless pace of the movie meant that too many corners were cut for me. But I have to stress that I felt incredibly short-changed overall. And, yes, it managed to elicit a variety of emotions within me which most movies fail to do.
Yes, the movie challenged me to confront my own prejudices and attitudes towards its subject matter. Yes, I laughed out loud on several occasions. In fact, the overriding impression I have is of a movie which is far too short to do proper justice to the whole concept which includes themes of parenthood, feminism, the snowballing of technology into apocalyptic and unforseen directions etc. But the characters seem poorly thought-out. Again, the performances themselves are excellent. (Which has much to do with Delphine Chanéac's lovely performance.) The same cannot, however, be said for her creators - played by Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. And yet, there is considerable pathos in her character. And with her linguistic and emotional maturation. And even though the overall look of Dren - the ultimate humanoid chimaera - is more convincing (at least once she matures) there is still plenty wrong with her physiognomy. They LOOK like computer graphics and make it very difficult for you to suspend your disbelief. Unfortunately, despite the lovingly created lab-based, almost futuristic sets, the CGI Fred and Ginger - the initial artificially created chimaeras - are less-than-convincing.
The central conceit - which is admittedly somewhat unoriginal - is nevertheless a potentially fascinating updating of Frankenstein (itself something of a Promethean homage) for the genome generation. It's so frustrating when you are confronted with a piece of art of any sort that - like Splice - has so many intriguing elements and the kernal of a classic which ultimately fails on too many levels for comfort.
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