Splice

Let's start by saying that I may be one of the few people that will watch anything with Adrien Brody attached. His performance in "Angels in the Outfield" eclipsed even that of Matthew McConaughey. Splice did a really good job of making it's trailers desirable. It made me want to see it, but not enough to go out and see it. I have 62 movie channels and I knew eventually it would show up. Last night it did, and I enjoyed the first hour of it anyway. I watched the first half then joined a "Anchorman" party complete with Scotch and all. I was absolutely anxious to watch the last hour and today I did. The first hour does a great job of building up this story and leading us down a path that gets us wondering. The second hour kind of tails off for a bit with more of the same, but it still very interesting. Then what we were all waiting for finally happens. Alien half breed grown in a lab specimen nudity in all it's creepy yet glorious fashion. These two scientist who dabble in the "I wanna play God" mentality create an organism that has an insane growth rate, but is a bit unstable. Clive (Brody), and Elsa (Sarah Polley) are actually involved and they mutually decide to create this thing without telling the higher ups. They use the facilities resources to do it, so the punishment would be beyond a slap on the wrist. Clive is the voice of reason once the organism hatches, but Elsa has a strange attachment to this thing. Well, Dren as Elsa names her, begins to learn. Elsa spends countless days trying to teach her anything to see if she could associate. Clive wanted to destroy her before she developed because it just felt wrong to him, yet Elsa won't allow it. Before they know it Dren is a mature (physically anyway) woman of sorts. She is strangely sexy for a bald chick with a tail that can't speak. The entire middle of the film is her learning and it is very intriguing as she develops her own attitude and way about things. She is getting to big to keep in the basement of the lab, so they move her to Elsa old family farm, and from there she is off. She wants to explore and be outside, because at this point I'd say she looks 20 years old but she is probably only 6 months old. Elsa sees Dren as her child and Clive is having trouble with their relationship, but everything quickly changes when Clive notices something that really upsets him. That last 20  minutes are awesome, and the final scene is a little creepy, but really kinda perfect. I suggest that you watch this film if you watch the 2 minute trailer and think "That looks decent". It is better than decent.

NBM rates Splice - Awesome

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