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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Species with bells & whistles,
By Gary Hilton "ursinebrute" (Lancashire) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Species - Special Edition [DVD] (DVD)
OK...I'm not going to spend too much time reviewing the actual film itself - I'm sure you all know what this is about and any real fan would have probably bought the bog standard version already. No, what you probably want to know is what this "Special Edition" contains and if it is worth swapping your other version for. Well in a word....NO.Don't get me wrong, if you really want this film then THIS is the version to buy, make no mistake, but if you already own the basic release of this film then my advice would be to stick with what you've got. This "all singing all dancing" version does contian two audio commentaries (One from actors Natasha Henstridge and Michael Madsen with director Roger Donaldson and another from director Roger Donaldson, producer Frank Mancuso Jr., Special Effects executive Richard Edlund and creator of the Sil creature Steve Johnson ) and an alternative ending. There are the usual featurettes that we come to expect on these Special editions; 'The Making of', Interviews, Designing Sil etc etc and it is all presnted in glorious Anamorphic 2.35:1 Widescreen The film itself hasn't aged badly at all and still remains oddly compulsive viewing, (but then a Page 3 girl who morphs into a killing machine is always gonna grab your attention right lads?) All in all, there IS fun to be had here, but is this a genuine attempt to give the viewer more value for money or just a cynical effort to milk the franchise and whet our appetites for Species 3 ?
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Alien it is not.....,
By AnOldGoat (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Species [DVD] [1995] (DVD)
The idea behind the plot is good, but as most of the concept is borrowed from Alien, and Giger obviously didn't work too hard on an original idea, it makes it to the end of the train journey before you spot the cliches, and the blatent copying. Which covers the first twenty minutes.
Woefully miscast, with Marg Helgenberger essentially doing what she now does in CSI, Alfred Molina seriously out of place, and Forest Whitaker being ignored most of the time, when you can see he's right. Since the entire plot consists of the foursome trying to track the alien, getting picked off one by one and eventually burning it, not forgetting the unnoticed baby with the reptilian tongue, its a small wonder that this one was allowed to escape the storyboard, where someone should have spotted it - "uh, guys, this looks awfully like Alien in earth - should we start over on it?". I only give it two stars for the incredibly funny sex scene with Molina - "this doesn't usually happen to me".
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not even good when watched drunk,
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This review is from: Species [VHS] [1995] (VHS Tape)
Awful film.This is supposed to be exploring what would happen if Alien and Human DNA was mixed. Yeah... The cast is at best, talentless. The Hybrid is played by Natasha "I'll get them out to further my film career" Hetsbridge (?), who copulates with any male she fancies in order to have offspring. Her quest is hampered by a group of specilaists selected to erase her - a molecular biologist (who spends more time with a gun in her hand than using her skills), an assassin (british, couldn't kill a woodlouse with a spade) and an empath (melodramatic cliche black-guy-in-horror movie). The first problem is the characters don't question the fact they're are hunting an alien, that aliens have contacted humans or even that there's an empath amoungst them. The second is the storyline is so obvious and painful to follow that i found myself flicking other channels to amuse myself. Thirdly the effects are poor and overused, there's too much unneeded sx and gore and generally this movie has been made for the sake of it. Don't watch this, do something more constructive, like count clouds.
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