Review of Species (1995) by Allan C — 15 Mar 2014
A quality of production of the worst quality of a Z-grade script. This script seemed like something out of a cheesy 1960s Roger Corman production. The film might as well have had a gorilla in a diving helmet with a bubble machine outside Bronson Cave.
It's disappointing that such a good cast (Michael Madsen, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, Natasha Henstridge in her film debut and Michelle Williams as Young Sil) and such good talent behind the camera (director Roger Donaldson, composer Christopher Young, director of photography Andrzej Bartkowiak and creature designs by H.
R. Geiger) wasted on such a lame script. The story I suppose is serviceable though pretty insipid, about a dangerous alien creature in the body of a beautiful lady who escapes and needs to be tracked down before she mates.
What really kills the film is terrible dialogue, the lack of interesting characters, and the many, many gaps in logic.
This review of Species (1995) was written by Allan C on 15 Mar 2014.
Species has generally received mixed reviews.
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