Two rogue genetic scientists ( I shall say that the term psychologically challenged more apt) create a creature by splicing DNA of various animals and human. They justify their act as 'for science' initially and later when things start to go out of control, they start to play master and God. Anyone could have seen that what they did or were doing, was wrong, except themselves. That is why I suggest alternate description for their mental state. The creature's behaviour has an animal instinct which is insufficiently put under control by the its human instinct. The interaction between Adrien Brody (male culprit) and Sarah Polley (female culprit), in the initial part of their wrong doing, reminded me of Adam and Eve in the Bible. The little doubts AB develop of their actions were quickly quashed by SP. And he willingly let her control him.
The movie as a whole manages to hold just above average. The creature makeup and special effects are superb. But, while watching it, makes us feel that something was missing somewhere. It could be the absence of powerful music in concordance with the awe the creature morphology conveys. Some of the scenes could have been avoided in my opinion. It develops a certain kind of repulsion to the frailty of humans, when hormones control the urge to mate. Because of that this movie is definitely not a family watch especially in unrated DVD, as my copy. Towards the end, the director seemed like he wanted to end the movie quickly. The offspring of the creature grows quickly than its mother and grasps speech without training. Hmmmm…interesting! And the end, the motivation for money seem to conquer reasoning. Hope this experiment never happens in real life. I really hope….
My personal rating is 3 out of 5…
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