SpliceThere are many great reasons to see Vincenzo Natali's
Splice this weekend. First of all, it is an awesome movie, and I
mean that in the most literal sense. My jaw dropped a number of
times while I was watching Splice. It's visually stunning,
eerie, extremely well written, and very, very smart. It's not
just about a monster. It's about the humanity of this creature
Dren, and, in turn, how she brings out the monstrous in her
human creators. There's a reason Guillermo del Toro is on board
as a producer, and it's because, as in all of his own films, the
humans turn out to be as dangerous and unpredictable as their
magnificent chimera.  In those jaw-dropping moments, I thought
to myself, "Oh, they're not going to go there. They can't. This
is a big studio movie. No way." But then it went there again and
again and again. It pushes the boundaries just as its main
characters, genius genetic scientists Clive (Adrien Brody) and
Elsa (Sarah Polley), did by creating Dren, and just as great
science fiction should.