People often use the phrase, “Ambitious, but flawed” to describe a movie. I use it a lot; it helps hint at a film that was trying to be more complex than The Blind Side or something, and depending how you put the emphasis, it can mean anything from “there were a few things that didn’t sit quite right” to “what a magnificent collection of moving images that had no discernible narrative cohesion”. (Oh, Sunshine.)

Splice tries very hard to be a Frankenstein for our times; a CGI creepfest; a meta-horror; a complex dissection of parenting norms; a parable of nature vs. nurture. At the same time. (You can see already where we’re going to have problems.)

As for how well it did at any or all of those things…how big can I make “Flawed”?

And 3D text, if you have it.
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