![]() ![]() The pace is not tight, the characters are not entirely credible, and the scientific part of the story is really unconvincing, so much so that maybe it would have been better if Natali had gone into the fantasy realm (as Del Toro intelligently did some years later). With references like this and two solid protagonists, why hasn’t anybody heard of Splice? Well, let’s say that the film isn’t what you could expect with such a premise. The plot is naturally inspired by films like Frankenstein ( 1931) or The Fly ( 19), and it anticipated The Shape of Water ( 2007), shot by the same Guillermo Del Toro who’s among the executive producers of Splice. The creature grows fast and changes the lives of the two scientists in a radical way… ![]() Then, they must keep it hidden because it’s clearly a totally illegal procedure. Pressed by their own pharmaceutical company interested in making profits, the two step into the unknown and generate a creature using human DNA. Two scientists, Elsa and Clive ( Polley and Brody), are working with advanced cloning procedures to synthesize proteins useful for treating currently incurable diseases. But let’s get back to Splice, his most expensive film to date: he used $30 million and two outstanding actors like Adrien Brody ( The Pianist, 2002) and Sarah Polley ( Mi vida sin mí, 2003). I’m talking about high quality series like Westworld and American Gods, but his last movie came out six years ago, which is a shame. Despite having been given higher budgets, afterwards none of his films was particularly successful and now, unfortunately, poor Natali can only work on television series. Splice is a 2009 film directed by the legendary director Vincenzo Natali, who surprised the world with his debut film Cube in 1997, shot with a ridiculous budget and now considered a real cult movie. ![]()
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