A competent movie ruined by unfathomably stupid twists. Like Abe Lincoln delivering a speech ruined by Tourrette's

If Avatar left you hungry for interspecies porn look no further. You get man on bird-goat-elf action and bird-fish-ghoul raping a woman for the price of one movie! Great deal. It also tries to explore science morality questions, but does it such a horrible tabloid paper style that you will wish it wouldn't even have tried. Production values are decent, and this film is bizzare enough to be noticed, if not liked.

If you are after a film with inter-species incest rape, then I guess this film is for you!

No idea what this film was trying to do, or if it succeeded, but it doesn't really matter to me because I didn't like it. I just can't stand Polley, and it loses all credibility once it brings out some really unfitting and absurd stuff. The sex scene(s) had my cringe-laughing, and as the film progressed I sank further and further into my seat, attempting to shake it off immediately after walking out of the cinema and it appears I managed to do that as I saw this 6 months ago and ranked it today.

As a biology major with a concentration in biotechnology taking techniques that are really awesome and having scientists unethically exploit them kind of pissed me off. It is this kind of crap, sadly, that gives genetic engineering a bad name. The whole storyline depicts scientists as crazy madmen, and what do you know, in the end everything goes terribly wrong. That's right scientists, you better watch what boundaries you push, or your gonna get us all killed. Nothing good can come of this.

B-movie-tastic, but it's not, crucially, a B-movie. A movie that starts out seeming to take itself reasonably seriously, but then gets more and more ridiculous. Aidrian Brodie? What are you doing.

Really creepy and fascinating. Very reminiscent of David Cronenberg with its disturbing creature effects and its unnerving sexuality.

Creepy, haunting sci-fi film dealing intelligently with a wide range of issues stemming from human cloning, including abortion and, like all great sci-fi stories, what it means to be human and how/why we define this. Brody and Polley are both fine in the lead roles, but the nature of the story requires both to be unsympathetic (especially Polley) so it is hard to become wrapped up in the film, even while admiring it. An interesting, worthy entry to the sci-fi canon.

A pretty under-rated film in my opinion - I like that it doesn't seem to go for the whole "DON'T MEDDLE IN GOD'S DOMAIN" approach, I respect that. The special effects are very well done, and it's great to watch the creature grow. Gets weirder as it goes on.

It's not perfect, but MAN does it have balls. Points for taking a premise and going ALL THE WAY. Refreshing!

"Unique" would be a good word to describe Splice in a nutshell. Dren is a scientific masterpiece, and while we don't get to learn how she thinks or feels, we see her impact on our two human leads. They have problems themselves, and Dren serves to bring those problems forward. Splice is more of a character study than a true horror film, and succeeds primarily when that is where its focus lies. Not great, but far from terrible, Splice is a film that warrants a watch.

A missed opportunity to create a great or at least interesting science fiction film. Instead, what we get is a passable but hollow (and even almost idiotic towards the end) exploration into the controversial science of genetic splicing. And that interspecies mating scene was just plain disturbing and not in a good way.

Shitty. Tries to provoke, comes off as anti-science and stereotyping men as being willing to fuck anything on two legs. Not entertaining beyond cheap scares.

An extraordinary level of effort and money was involved in something this cheesy. The only reason this isn't rated lower is that Adrien Brody does turn out a fairly decent (if not hilariously earnest) performance. I'm surprised the script for this made it past the reading stages since it's full of ridiculous rape scenes and an assfaced genetic freak baby. If this was done tongue in cheek with perhaps a quarter of the budget it might rate a bit higher for the camp factor alone.

Effective production design and a potentially interesting concept let down by sketchy characterisation and a narrative that may have been daring but failed to capitalise on its ideas and rather petered out toward the end. Cronenberg ought to have been hired to revise the screenplay (and installing Goldblum and Davis in the lead roles would probably have been a good idea also, and, come to think of it, why not hire Howard Shore to compose the score too?).

It starts out pretty well, the quickly spirals into crappiness. When there are suddenly two male creatures at the presentation, I knew exactly where the movie was going.

An interesting idea but very, very, very poorly executed!

69.625

After hearing it compared to Cronenberg a few hundred times my expectations were probably too high; it's got plenty of vintage Canadian body horror (and excellent special effects), but where Cronenberg would have used that to tell a story, in Splice it just is the story. Still, Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley make the most of their rather unsympathetic roles, and the movie is both gross and oddly moving a lot of the time... though the last 20 minutes will probably lose quite a few viewers

Asks the question "what would happen if scientists were stupider than a high school dropout?" This movie is completely worthless in every way. Hell, its even insulting in how bad it is.

The concept is really intriguing, but I really wanted to see more on the ethical dilemma. That said, I was left feeling like there may be a sequel, and if there was, I'd bite again.

"Vincenzo Natali confirms that he has a knack for novelty but scant ability to set off truly heart-wrenching emotional provocation." - Ed Gonzalez

This had so much potential that when it turned into a shitty generic horror movie I could of almost cried. The two lead scientists, are fantastically believable, the creature looks great and the film asks some big questions on the subject of artificially creating life, but then they end up having sex with the creature for no apparent reason, I really wish I was joking

uhm... yuck.