The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unrated Director's Cut)
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Movie Reviews of The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unrated Director's Cut)
Movie Review: MARLON BRANDO ROCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Summary: 5 Stars
THE FILM IS JUST GREAT. DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE AWFUL REVIEWS. THOSE CRITICS ARE A BUNCH OF FRUSTRATED ACTORS, DIRECTORS,ETCMovie Review: One Of Frankenheimer's Very Worst
Summary: 1 Stars
I thought that the laughable eco-monster movie "Prophecy" was John Frankenheimer's only horror-science fiction movie until I came across "The Island Of Dr. Moreau" a few weeks ago. Sadly, "The Island Of Dr. Moreau" is even worse than "Prophecy" and qualifies as one of John Frankenheimer's very worst films.British ambassador David Thewlis is planewrecked at sea and rescued by "veterinarian" Val Kilmer. Kilmer takes Thewlis to the island of Dr. Moreau(Marlon Brando), a mad scientist who is attempting to create a superior species by inserting the DNA of humans into animals.
John Frankenheimer's adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Island Of Dr. Moreau" is the director's second worst film after "99 and 44/100% Dead." The makeup work is excellent but this one element cannot save the film. John Frankenheimer and screenwriters Richard Stanley and Ron Hutchinson apparently wanted "TIODM" to be a thinking man's horror movie. In a manner somewhat similar to "Prophecy," Frankenheimer and the screenwriters take Wells' horror-science fiction tale and attempt to create a social fable by interweaving socio-political concepts into the story. In "TIODM," Stanley and Hutchinson interweave themes such as class division and revolution into the tale. Unfortunately, "TIODM" simply becomes another disastrously ridiculous and forgettable horror movie. The screenplay is howlingly poor. With the possible exception of Arthur Penn's "The Missouri Breaks," Marlon Brando has never looked more embarrassing in a movie. With dark classes, white makeup, robe, and cap, Brando makes an absolutely absurd entrance into the film. Val Kilmer also manages to look equally foolish.
"TIODM" is only for diehard Marlon Brando fans and science-fiction enthusiasts.
Movie Review: A truly intelligent film. Up there with Kubrick!
Summary: 5 Stars
I wonder how a film can arouse so much negative reaction. Why are most people really angry about it not just ignoring it? From reading all the reviews I could find, I think the explanation is: It is too different from the mainstream formula. People think they get Stallone/Schwarzenegger/Willis mindless action when they get Kubrick-like intelligence.If the film DIDN'T have big names like Frankenheimer, Brando and Kilmer, people would not have a standard Hollywood cliche to expect. It confuses them.
I came across a few quotes that sums up the anger against the film: "it's weird and too many people die which leaves you depressed" and "it kills the sympathy the audience should feel for such tormented and abused beings".
I have the opposite opinion. It's EXACTLY what makes this film unique. I don't need another Hollywood soap but most people are comfortable with the cliches they have seen in 99% other Hollywood films. They MUST have the superchic, the "moral dilemma", the black judge and the happy end. They can't cope with a story that unfolds in a more "documentary", bizarre way. For me the whole excitement comes from the sense of realism. The "heroes" dies when logic requires it. As a matter of fact! You watch things happen because it's inevitable from a biological sense NOT because it has to conform with a Hollywood formula. The main characters are not important, the "has-it-all great story" is not important, the essence is to show how strong a force biological mechanisms shaped through millions of years are. DISREGARDING the conformity rules of filmmaking. That's why Island of Dr. Moreau is a masterpiece in my mind. It's up there with Kubrick.
Movie Review: AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!!!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Absolutely one of the WORST movies I've seen in the last 20 years........so bad, it makes disasters like "Beverly Hills Cop III" and "Natural Born Killers" look like timeless masterpieces. Marlon Brando & Val Kilmer both had to be heavily influenced on pharmeseuticals to agree to "act" in this piece of garbage!Movie Review: Excellent morality tale
Summary: 4 Stars
... this is a film worth seeing. It is, in many respects, a modern fable about the evils of communism and its chiliastic inclinations. Brando's "experiments" and use of fear and terror to generate a facade of benevolent rule, as well as his attempt to displace God and act as such himself, suggests the sort of hubris characteristic of modern centralized States. The assumption that in order for one to be healed of one's imperfection or sickness requires an enlightened class utilizing science and planning, creates the conditions necessary for the distortions of the good that result: things are only made worse and "men" turned more savage as Dr. Moreau insists on creating a solution for their condition. Using psychological conditioning methods, intimidation, and coercion -- staples of communists States -- Moreau effectively de-personalizes his subjects, removing any hope or sense of the future from them. The result is predictable: a destructive nihilism that, because it has been cultivated in the apostasy of modernism and totalitarianism, carries the day.