a5c7b9f00b In 1974, an organization known as the Search of ExtraTerrestrial Instituion (SETI) has possessed some kind of alien being, thus beginning some kind of top secret experiment to mix human and alien DNA. This is when the scientists created Sil, a female human-alien hybrid. However, approximately 20 years later, she has escaped. Sil is also determined to reproduce, but needs human male sperm to do so. Now, a team of scientists and federal agents must find Sil and stop her from mating with a human male and reproduce. In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye. Government agent Xavier Fitch assembles a team of scientists and mercenaries to locate and destroy Sil before she manages to find a mate and breed. "Species" is a long, lame science fiction film that is short on imagination. It wastes the good talents of Ben Kingsley ("Gandhi"), Michael Madsen ("Reservoir Dogs"), Forest Whitaker ("Bird"), and Natasha Henstridge. Kingsley is a scientist whose experiment goes awry and must assemble a small group to track down Henstridge who is out to mate and reproduce. Even the special effects are repulsive. My evaluation: *1/2 out of ****. I had always seen this film a few minutes in, and I knew the cast pretty well, so I knew I had to see the entire film to really appreciate or dismiss it. From director Roger Donaldson (Dante's Peak), this film starts with a little girl, named Sil (Dawson's Creek's Michelle Williams) inside a large see-through dome, and a few seconds later has a gas pumped in to kill her, and she obviously escapes. This girl is now on the run, and Dr. Xavier Fitch (Ben Kingsley) has brought together a group of experts in their own ways to help exterminate the girl. This group consist of mercenary Preston Lennox (Michael Madsen) who is there only to kill something, anthropologist Dr. Stephen Arden (Alfred Molina), scientist Dr. Laura Baker (Marg Helgenberger), and Empath (who can feel things, i.e. what another is feeling, their intention, their reason for something, and if they are close or where they have been recently) Dan Smithson (Forest Whitaker). We discover that (obviously) this girl is not ordinary, she may look like a human, but behind closed doors and before a victim will be killed by her, she is a new species. Basically over many years the scientist satellites have been sent alien codes with instructions to join their DVA with humans, they tried this with five due babies, only one (Sil) was allowed to live. Anyway, Sil has now fully grown into a mature adult (introducing the attractive Natasha Henstridge), and learning more and more human traits, she is desperate now to find a healthy human man to help her breed, in other words, with her increased speed of growth, she wants to make a baby. The film consists mainly of loads of chases, alien deaths, near misses and quite a bit of nudity, till eventually Stephen is victim to her conception, and death of course, and finale sees all surviving characters tracking the now hideous looking creature down underground. The special effects may not be absolutely superb, but they are pretty cool in moments, and I found Whitaker's character a little weird, even though he is helpful in the story, and a great actor, so in whole, quite a good once in awhile film. Worth watching! A shameless Alien rip-off (it even uses a similar typeface in its ads), it makes no sense whatsoever. But don't hold the movie's utter unoriginality and brainlessness against it. A few laughs, a few popcorn-jolting scares—what more do you want on a hot summer night? When an extraterrestrial alien resembling a normal female child escapes from her isolation chamber, government agent Xavier Fitch (<a href="/name/nm0001426/">Ben Kingsley</a>) assembles a group of scientists, composed of anthroplogist Dr Stephen Arden (<a href="/name/nm0000547/">Alfred Molina</a>), molecular biologist Dr Laura Baker (<a href="/name/nm0001339/">Marg Helgenberger</a>), and empath Dan Smithson (<a href="/name/nm0001845/">Forest Whitaker</a>), along with mercenary Preston Lennox (<a href="/name/nm0000514/">Michael Madsen</a>), to hunt down and destroy the rapidly growing "Sil" (<a href="/name/nm0000449/">Natasha Henstridge</a>) before she manages to breed. The screenplay was written by filmmaker Dennis Feldman, who also produced the movie. However, a novelization, also titled Species (1995), written by American author Yvonne Navarro, was released concurrently with the movie. The film was followed by three sequels: <a href="/title/tt0120841/">Species II (1998)</a> (1998), <a href="/title/tt0410650/">Species III (2004)</a> (2004), and <a href="/title/tt0844894/">Species: The Awakening (2007)</a> (2007). Fitch, Dan, Press, and Laura follow Sil into the sewers. When Fitch is separated from the others, Sil kills him. Press goes deeper into the dewers in an attempt to flush her out. Dan continues to search and comes upon a small naked boy (<a href="/name/nm0122977/">Kurtis Burow</a>) who has just eaten a rat. As Dan tries to coax the boy to come out, he opens his mouth and strikes at Dan with a long tongue. The boy then begins to morph into a replica of Sil, so Dan shoots him with a flame thrower, and the boy falls into a pool of oil. Suddenly Sil hops forward and pursues Dan while Laura, stuck between some rocks, screams for Press to help. Sil shoots tentacles out from her breasts in an attempt to kill Press, but he fires several bullets into her, knocking her into the oily mass of flames. Sil tries to pull Dan into the flames with her, but Press loads his gun and blows her head off. "She was half us, half something else," Laura comments. "I want to know what was the predatory half." Press simply replies, "The dead half." In the final scene, as Dan, Press, and Laura make their way out of the sewer, two rats meet each other. One opens his mouth and strikes the other one with his long tongue.
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