Perhaps satyrs and centaurs are too boring these days.Ĭloning and DNA splicing has always been a subject for debate. She’s half human and half animal, but how did traits of frogs, kangaroos, birds, and scorpions get in there? An experiment this uncontrolled seems less likely to even be considered, let alone come to fruition. Where were the simpler splices of two similar animals to create a hybrid – such as something imaginable, like a fish with a duck? Once Dren makes an appearance, it would appear that the two scientists mixed genes by picking unmarked test tubes out of a hat without knowing what they might be getting. Veiny, gelatinous “new life forms” are the first giant leap into fiction. “Splice” begins by presenting the scientific aspects of bio-engineering with an emphasis on believability, but then skips several steps in trying to keep the audience’s suspension of disbelief intact. Angered by their employers’ lack of foresight, Elsa and Clive secretly conduct their own experiment and create Dren (Delphine Chaneac), a half-human, half-animal hybrid with untold scientific value – and unimaginable danger. Their bosses see only dollar signs, however, and demand that the two scientists forge ahead with protein synthesis rather than taking the next steps into human gene splicing. It may sound weird in print, but it’s even stranger on the screen.īio-engineers Elsa (Sarah Polley) and Clive (Adrian Brody) are on the brink of a complete scientific breakthrough with their latest experiment of molecule creation from a new animal life form. It attempts to surface the moral dilemmas of gene splicing and human cloning but quickly gives way to the ludicrous notions of sex with kangaroo women. The alternating bouts of heavy sci-fi and samplings of creature horror feel unbalanced and so do the film’s messages. Plice” takes a deeply debated subject and treats it with the utmost seriousness for the first half-hour, then slowly digresses into an often uncomfortably bizarre monster movie.
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