{"id":5127,"date":"2016-12-26T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:03:22","slug":"splice-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5127","title":{"rendered":"Splice-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Splice-2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Vincenzo Natali<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #564<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed December 26, 2016<\/p>\n

Grade: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are looking for a realistic, character-driven movie, this film is not for you. Rather, Splice, a 2009 effort, is a science-fiction thriller that must be viewed with all disbelief suspended.<\/p>\n

It’s not a work of art and has lots of plot holes, but it provides decent entertainment, bordering on fluff.<\/p>\n

The two main characters, Clive and Elsa, played by Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, are admittedly neurological scientists. Still, they’re not the brightest people in the world, and their motivations change with the weather.<\/p>\n

The basic plot involves a married couple (the aforementioned scientists) who conduct an experiment to splice human and animal DNA into a new creation, a female hybrid named Dren.<\/p>\n

Predictably, things go awry once Dren is let loose on the world.<\/p>\n

The plot is thin, and there are questionable actions, motivations, and subplots, but somehow I still found it entertaining once I went with it.<\/p>\n

There are cliches such as the scientists ignoring instructions, the one-dimensional supporting characters, and so on.<\/p>\n

As a comical aside, I overheard the guy sitting behind me in the theater mutter as the closing credits rolled, “This was the worst movie ever.”<\/p>\n

I understand where he is coming from, but I did not think the film was that bad<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For fans of horror or thrillers, I recommend it; anyone else might want to skip this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Splice-2009 Director Vincenzo Natali Starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley Scott’s Review #564 Reviewed December 26, 2016 Grade: B- If you are looking for a realistic, character-driven movie, this film is not for you. Rather, Splice, a 2009 effort, is a science-fiction thriller that must be viewed with all disbelief suspended. It’s not a work of … Continue reading Splice-2009<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,13,103,204],"tags":[2951,12381,2474,2361,2953],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2009-movie-reviews","category-horror-films","category-scifi","category-thrillers","tag-adrien-brody","tag-delphine-chaneac","tag-guillermo-del-toro","tag-sarah-polley","tag-vincenzo-natali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24041,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/24041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}