R015 The Island of Dr. Moreau  (1996, Horror/SciFi, color)
Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy  Is it too early to hit Val with a
coal shovel?  Rating: *1/2  In a nutshell:  A mad scientist’s
creations inevitably turn on him.   A potentially fatal
speedball of acting.Official U.N. Peace Guy Edward Douglas
(David Thewlis) has survived a plane crash into the middle of
the ocean. When our story begins, he’s trapped on a life raft
with two nameless military escort-type guys as they engage in a
life-and-death struggle over the last canteen of water. (How
trained peacekeepers got desperate to the point of violence
before becoming too dehydrated to move is never explained.)
Knives are pulled; paddles are wielded; sharks are attracted to
the resulting corpses; and sole survivor Edward is left to drift
on alone.  He wakes up aboard an Indonesian vessel in the care
of trained veterinarian Montgomery (Val Kilmer) who takes Edward
along with him to the eponymous Island of Dr. Moreau. A bit of
rabbit-killing exposition reveals