One of my all time favorites.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

DNA splicing is a hot topic, taking characteristics from other organisms to create an entirely new one that theoretically should be superior. That's all well and good, but when that concept is executed to such mediocrity you can't help but feel underwhelmed. In Splice, two scientists take it upon themselves to splice human DNA into an artificial organism, as an experiment. The company they work for strictly prohibited this, and so they must monitor the experiment in secret. Consequently making such a creature will have disastrous outcomes right? Well, when it's in the hands of two of the most idiotic scientists in the world...yes. That's where my massive problem lies, the stupidity of certain characters and actions. You can't backup an intelligent concept, where our scientists consistently shout out random amino acids and proteins, with simple plain idiocy. Firstly following the experiment through was stupid anyway, so much so that the characters realise their mistake (in the aura of 'Frankenstein'). Torturing it to a point where they physically cause it emotional distress. Unable to keep hold of it, to which it escapes...in the woods...the outside world...the general population. It's just so stupid to a point that it becomes a detriment to the believability of the story. Which ultimately is a shame as the concept is there, all the ingredients are presented to them on a shiny plate. Just frustratingly combined together to create a sour dish. You can tell Del Toro produced this, the hint of dark fantasy and themes of motherhood and maturity are embedded within, which I appreciated. Brody and Poller make the best of a lacklustre script. The ending was...well, bold? Ummm...yeah, unusual and grotesque simultaneously. It is an engaging sci-fi thriller, but the implausibility and stupidity of certain aspects prevent this from being good. Moral of the story: Don't be a self-righteous scientist, it will be your downfall.

6 1/2The concept behind Splice is always interesting but not as original as it may appear, as there have been many films before it that have tackled the topic, sometimes even with better results. The fact is, although its overall enjoyable, it gets a little too conventional in the end, giving up the interesting premises set in the beginning : the main characters are well defined but poorly developed, and the screenplay tends to get lazy after a while. The directing is fine but not exceptional and the rest is pretty average. Pity

(Note: I'm feeling lazy and its 3 AM so I'm just gonna repost my thoughts from the message board.) This film is, well it's a sci-fi psychological/body horror drama film with heavy ("beating you over the head with it" some of the more critical might say) Freudian overtones and a "playing God" storyline. But it feels like a Cronenberg film to me in subject matter.Sarah Polley is very good in it. (I wish she'd act in more films) and Adrian Brody also puts in a good performance.The CGI is quite good. By mainstream cinema standards, it's a very weird film. For that reason I wouldn't recommend the film to just Joe Six Pack down the block. It's also best watched alone...because a few scenes would just be really awkward to watch with other people.

I have wanted to see this movie for a long time since I checked out a few of Vincenzo Natali's movies sometime before. I finally saw it today. I am not satisfied at all. What I saw was a movie which was confused about which tone to take, what direction to move and so on. First, the whole pretty boy scientist thing totally turned me off. I didn't really take these two seriously as brilliant scientists. But there are many other problems with the movie. Honestly speaking, the movie could have been a brilliant thought provoking sci fi(like say, Moon) or an action/horror/sci fi movie (like say, Species) or a trashy 80s style movie(like say, Humanoids from the deep). If the filmmakers were able to decide the path properly, it could have been happened. Instead it is too stupid to be a thought provoking sci fi. It is too slow to be an effective action horror movie. It has very few scenes of nudity or violence to be a trashy 80s style movie. The movie IMO meanders aimlessly and it drags quite a bit for the most part. Most of the themes in the movie were dealt with in superior sci fi films. And they were dealt with in better ways in those movies. It has too many clichés and the mad scientist trope, playing with nature stuff has been done to death now. This movie has not broken new ground in any way. Hell, to some extent, it reminded me of inferior films such as Species(which at least had copious nudity to compensate).Then there is the entertainment factor. In a movie with so much trash potential, the sex scenes are a huge disappointment. Maybe Vincenzo natali doesn't have the trashy sensibility to make such a movie. And where are the big twists, the snappy screenplay? It doesn't seem to be made by the same filmmaker of Cube or Cypher. The ending left me yawning. Is that the supposed shock ending?Maybe we should bring back Roger corman or someone like that to make such movies. Altogether I give it a 4/10.