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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Roger Donaldson |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 07 July, 1995 |
| MANUFACTURER: | MGM (Video & DVD) |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie, Science Fiction |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616641335 |
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Not just stupid, but predictable & boring I can only imagine that the 4 & 5 star reviews for the stinker of a movie are coming from adolescent boys who are still enthralled by the nekkid alien/human hybrid who apparently can't be bothered by the inconvenience of clothing. As for the rest of us, the pervasive nudity will cease to be novel after the first 5 minutes or so. What we are left with is a lame & predictable paint-by-numbers horror flick which apparently wants to be "Alien," but seems content merely to steal liberally from an infinitely better movie. <
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>This is so predictable that you could stop watching after the first hour, but why would you want to waste that first precious hour anyway? Just avoid the whole thing unless you are just now reaching puberty.
sex and alliens
well, it seems that they had to make a movie where Alliens and humans have sex, it was creepy, it was gross, it was fun!
So many good actors, so little script.
Species (Roger Donaldson, 1995)
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>I commented recently in my review for The Italian Job: "But then, how bad can a movie be when your cast list includes...." Species is one of the films that provides my answer.
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>Species takes a four-time Academy Award nominee (with one win), a five-time Emmy nominee (with one win), a BAFTA nominee (who should have been nominated for more than one Academy Award over the years), and Michael Madsen, one of the most brilliant underrated actors of his generation, combines them with a creature designed by another Academy Award winner, and turns them loose on a script that would have been laughed out of studios in the fifties when horror movies were made with villains who were things like big plants or fifty-foot-long praying mantises. It would've been at least worthwhile if it had been meant as a send-up of bad "combine things with radiation and get a sci-fi film" fifties Z-grade movies, but it's unfortunately obvious that Donaldson, who's been responsible for other such cinematic classics as Cadillac Man and Cocktail (though, in his defense, he was also responsible for a really fun indie flick in the early eighties called Smash Palace seen by far too few Americans), took his subject matter all too seriously.
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>In case you need a description of the rail-thin plot, thus: a scientist (Kingsley, Oscar winner for Gandhi) receives a message from outer space that gives mankind the necessary knowledge to alter human DNA for reasons unknown. Of course, he decides on an experiment, named Sil (played as an adult by Natasha Henstridge in her first feature film) which gets out of hand. When that happens, he hand-picks a team of specialists in various fields to come in, find, and neutralize Sil: Preston Lennox (Kill Bill's Madsen), Stephen Arden (Frida's Alfred Molina), Dan Smithson (Forest Whitaker of Good Morning Vietnam and Bird fame), and Laura Baker (Marg Helgenberger of CSI). Together with the scientist, they go looking for Sil. Which takes the rest of the movie, more or less, and results in a lot of gore, stuff blowing up, and really, really stupid remarks from the cast.
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>The movie is horrifying, but certainly not in the way its director seems to have intended. * ½