Hollywood's latest flick 'Splices' morality

*Warning: There are spoiler alerts, so if you were planning on going to see it—don't.

I don't know what's worse: sitting through 45 minutes of stop-and-go traffic or sitting through 1 hour and 44 minutes of "Splice". I would have to say "Splice".

When this latest "horror" movie hit the big screen, I was prepared to be scared silly, especially since every time the preview would come on TV I could barely watch it without yelling, "How scary! How scary!" But the only thing scary about this movie was the fact that Adrien Brody decided to star in it after reading the script. What's also disturbing is that Hollywood doesn't seem to know how to properly advertise its movies without misleading its audience, said Miss Led.

The preview was clearly trying to promote a sci-fi horror movie; instead, it turned out to be a twisted "drama" that follows a bizarre couple who work as scientists who splice the DNA of different animals together to create new species that can help cure diseases. That is how they created Dren, whose DNA is comprised of amphibian and bird DNA. And oh yes, human DNA, which is a project their bosses did not approve. But of course, if these two scientists didn't break the rules, there would be no movie. There would also be one less disturbed viewer.

Now the first hour wasn't so bad. I sat there watching Dren grow at an accelerated rate (she went from a baby to a toddler within a matter of days) and kept waiting for her to grow little horns (which wouldn't have been so outlandish since she sprouted wings as a teenager) and start doing some splicing and dicing of her own. Instead, I had to watch Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley love and care for this thing as if it was a human being when in reality it is a thing.

I will say it did get scary toward the end when a sex scene ensued between Brody and the fish-like, bird-like, human-like creature. Half of the audience burst out in awkward laughter. The other half must have been so disgusted that laughter just wouldn't come. I fell into both categories. I wish I had also fell into the category of people who walked out after Dren changed sex (yes, she changed into a he) and raped his/her "mother" in the end where Sarah Polley then finally killed it. Too bad she didn't kill it sooner since we all know what happens when people have unprotected sex, even if it is with a fish-like, bird-like, human-like creature.