Clive and Elsa have plans to go beyond the creation of a pair of slug-like creatures that have excited their corporate sponsors - they want to do things with human DNA. They are led by Clive (Adrien Brody) and his girlfriend, Elsa (Sarah Polley), the masterminds behind a genetic splicing project that has pharmaceutical implications. The curtain rises on a small group of scientists feverishly working in a laboratory that seems decidedly behind-the-times technologically.
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There's a lot going on in the movie - some of which is rich, compelling material - but director Vincenzo Natali's scattershot approach to his subject matter leaves the viewer left with a frustrating sense that interesting paths were bypassed in service of a narrative that offers few surprises and concludes with a cornball, jarring sequence that belongs in another movie - perhaps the one being advertised by the aforementioned trailer.
Despite its relative bravery in choosing not to embrace the Grand Guignol, Splice is a little too hit-or-miss to truly work. Like the vastly superior The Fly, it uses gore sparingly delivering shocks to the audience is a secondary consideration. Splice is as much a psychological thriller and drama about bio-ethics as it is a horror movie. However, although the film does indeed pilfer a scene directly from the latter movie, the trailer misrepresents its source. The trailer for Splice might lead a viewer to expect a low-budget retread of Species crossed with Aliens.
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