The best I can say about _Splice_ is that it wasn't a "bad" movie. From beginning to end, so much of it was predictable but the story was good and the execution of it was fair. Kudos to Sarah Polley for her portrayal of "Elsa" as a woman on the edge of science who finds herself battling human emotion and maternal instinct throughout the film. Adrien Brody also did a great job and overall, I felt it was a fair enactment of a so-so story. If there was a "fatal flaw" in this, it was simply that the writers/producers didn't do enough to make "Dren" interesting enough; it seems - this is only my opinion, mind you - they could have stretched a bit and made the Dren character easier to "buy into", so to speak, so that you actually FELT something for the "being"...be it loathing, sympathy, curiousity, etc. As it was, the thing - the "Dren" character - just became (again, this is speaking only for myself) "the antagonist" or "the monster" in _Splice_. I never felt sorry for it, or fear, or hatred, or ANYTHING: it was just "there" as the focal point of the film...nothing more, nothing less. The film was an easy-enough not-quite-two-hours watch but I just felt there were several areas of improvement that could have made this so much better.