Species (DVD)

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Creature features have never really been known for their depth of characterisation, their originality or their deft statements on the human condition. They can, however, be very exciting and make for light-hearted, harmless entertainment. It is on this basis that many such features have, even to the present day far beyond the golden age of such films in the 1950s, scored very highly at the box office, and in 1995, with the by-line “men cannot resist her … mankind may not survive her”, ‘Species’ became one of those films, cleverly combining pretty fast-paced action and special effects wizardry with the other trusty marketing ploy of ...  Read the complete review

Species was a movie which I had never really intended to see, I certainly wasn't going to go out of my way to track it down or spend my hard earned cash to find after reading some of the disparaging reviews it got aqfter its initial release. The plot sounds rather interesting, but the final execution, dumb in the extreme. Scientists have been trying to communicate with aliens for years, sending messages up into space and not getting nay reply - until now. They start receiving messages back, and in one comes a coded message for some alien DNA. Well of course, being scientists, the first thing they do is inject this alien DNA into a human egg and grow a ...  Read the complete review

For years American scientists had been sending out messages into outer space trying to communicate with other life forms. One day they started to receive replies. In one of the replies was a DNA structure, which the scientists created and injected into a human egg. The egg developed at an amazing rate and a baby was created. The scientists were going to kill the child in order to examine it, but it escaped. Very quickly the child changed into an adult form and headed for Los Angeles in order to mate and reproduce. The start of this film very quickly sets the scene for a seek and destroy mission organised by the American government. A group of ...  Read the complete review

Yet another sci-fi warning not to mess with nature, and more importantly alien DNA. Natasha Henstridge plats the title role of a young and extremely sexy half breed alien/human, who has been created when a DNA sequence is received from outer space. The creature is named Sil and she quickly matures into a head-turning, shapely, blue-eyed blonde. She escapes and proceeds to run riot through Los Angeles in search of a mate.Hot on her tail are a team of scientists, psychics and the like, hoping to destroy her before she has a chance to breed. H.R.Giger was involved with the special effects, but they don't touch his award winning work for Alien. Although ...  Read the complete review