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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Hunt and kill them!
Review: Some crazy scientists inject some alien DNA in a normal human person. She is a woman outside and an alien inside. She is a predator who only wants to procreate, to give some future to her species. So she hunts for men and she looks for the right one. She finally finds the right match and she gets impregnated. Within hours a child comes out and grows very fast. He is nothing but a predator and a hunter. The team of mad scientists, with cops behind, manage to destroy the two aliens by burning them in the sewers of Los Angeles. The last twitch is that a rat nibbles on some rejected piece of tentacle and integrate at once the alien DNA. This film does not even ask a question about aliens. They are dangerous and agressive and they have to be destroyed. The aliens are the creation of the famous Giger, the creator of the other and world-famous aliens from the series Alien-etc. Great animals. A shallow film entirely based on fear, the standard fear of anything that is different and « that anything » is shown systematically as being dangerous and agressive. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: SPECIES is a slick,hip SCI FI thriller with sex appeal!
Review: An alien experiemnt (Michelle Williams, Dick) escapes from scientists (Ben Kingsley, What Planet Are You From?) where it destroys human race after it disguises as an attractive woman (Natasha Henstridge, The Whole Nine Yards)and must reproduce. Sil happens to be the name of the alien creature and must learn how America is like she must learn what money is,how to eat food.Some mistakes she makes are:

* Sil eats the banana peel without peeling it.

* She wears a wedding dress as a disguise.

* She wears a bra at a dance club to meet a guy.

* She gets scared from cameras.

* Televisions are new to her.

* Cars are different in her society.

* She leaves all the cars' motors running that she steals.

* She forgets her credit card when the hotel manager swipes it.

* Her hormones go crazy every time she's will a guy.

* She gets naked in front of every man she meets.

Marg Helgenberg, Forest Whitaker and other famous actors give appearances with great performances.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: First there was ALIEN, then came,PREDATOR now theres SPECIES
Review: Artist H.R.Giger designed the creature for this fantastic sci fi film. Even though I'm 13 I think I'm mature enough. The acting isn't what is expected it is better than most people thaught it was gonna be. The direction equals the entire film all together.The special effects are astounding I loved the creature son of Sil and the violence is what is needed to please a sci fi gore fan. The score by Christopher Young(Hellraiser) goes perfectly well with the film they should have a soundtrack out like part two. Speaking of part two it doesn't follow up to the ending of this film. When i heard of part two I thaught they were gonna have a mutated rat just as the ending showed us but sadly no if there is a part three the rat should be there. Anyway if you wanna see heavy sci fi violence and action packed sequences and mixed with heavy sex and nudity and state of the art special effects then you've come to the right movie. A young Michelle Williams(Hallowen H20) makes a debute as a young Sil. You should defidently see this movie it will maby make you wanna watch it twice in a row.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Well, I liked it.
Review: I must say, I am somewhat surprised at all the negative reviews and reviews that it is just a tit flick. I have always thought Species was one of the better sci-fi films of it's time. Sure, it's no Aliens, but what else is? Species is much more than just waiting to see Natasha nude, it has a very compelling story, good special effects, and characters that interest you. And no, I'm not just a Natasha fan. As proof, I thought Species II was lame. Species II, in no way, compares to the original.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Whatever you do, don¿t kiss her
Review: Part of this is ripped-off from "Alien" and part of it is a corruption of a very fine sci-fi idea now probably forty-years old. Premise: a message from outside our solar system gives the DNA code for an alien species to grow within a human reproductive cell or embryo. Not able to resist such juicy stuff, scientist Ben Kingsley (as wooden as you'll ever see him) follows the recipe and lo and behold a beautiful monster is reared. And escapes. Naturally.

So far so cute. She leaps over fences and crashes through windows and grows from pre-adolescent Michelle Williams to fully ovulating adult Natasha Henstride in days. She has one thing on her mind: reproduction. Anything that gets in her way she kills. She can give a mean lingual kiss that goes out through the back of your head should she feel threatened.

Well, if this is a metaphor for the urgency of the feminine reproductive imperative I think they should have played the Power Station (?) song with the lyric, "She wants to multiple/Are you gonna do it?" in the background.

Anyway, as usual the plot deteriorates into a drawn-out chase scene that Hollywood thinks the mass mind craves along with the usual stupidities. I could watch only because Henstride is sexy enough to forgive a few bad alien genes.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Stylish sci-fi suspenser
Review: A standard alien-on-the-rampage storyline is here given an above-standard treatment. The result is a stylish, suspensful film with gore and violence aplenty.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: SciFi Action with Sex Appeal
Review: Don't be mistaken, the focus of this movie is to entertain. Mission accomplished! If your looking for a deep meaningful movie forget it. If your offended by nudity forget it. If action, gun play, and horror offend you forget it.

Species is a SciFi\Action thriller with sex appeal. From the opening to the close of the movie your senses are bombarded with the goings on of a very sexy and very often nude Natasha Henstridge's fight for her alien life. The story line is solid and cohesive, with a few twists and turns thrown in this classic SciFi tale. Species is filled with: great actions sequences, excellent sound, very high quality production, and good acting from a superb cast. A classic mix of SciFi and Action required viewing for any true SciFi buff and an excellent choice.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Great musical hook
Review: Species is worth seeing for the music alone, it is haunting. I occasionally hear the hook in comercials and it is of the same quality as the one in True Romance. The premise of the movie revolves around scientists contacting an alien intelligence which sends a recipe for constructing DNA. Doing so turns out to be a big mistake and sets up a great line later in the movie in which one of the characters says something like "We were the disease and she was the antidote".

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A mostly ridiculous and unentertaining sci-fi/horror film
Review: Species is a gory sci-fi/horror thriller that also has a lot of sex and nudity in it. Instead of trying to be intelligent or maintain some form suspense or tension, the filmmakers decide to just bare Natasha Henstridge fully nude every twenty minutes or so.

The plot? Well, it starts out interestingly enough with some government agents trying to kill a girl they call Sil inside a complex. She escapes and a team is quickly formed to find her. Apparently, Sil is a human/alien hybrid, and she's growing to a young woman at a faster rate (and then stops once she reaches age 20 or so). What she wants is to breed by mating with a man and the rest of the movie deals with the team trying to prevent this from happening (they mostly succeed until the end).

Let's discuss the basics of this film first. Scriptwise, it's far from original as it closely resembles Lifeforce, a similar (and far better) fim about an extraterrestrial seductress that arrives on earth. Species has some bad dialogue, the worst of which is a scene where Michael Madsen walks past a man's gory entrails and says "she must have come through here."

The movie features some action sequences but none of them are particularly memorable, with the exception of the one scene in which Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger are trapped in a room that has alien DNA growing at an extremely rapid rate. Had the rest of the action sequences maintained that form of suspense Species would have been fine. Instead, the film is relegated to some boring chase scenes along with an extremely bad finale that has some very bad and cheesy special effects.

As for acting, it's actually decent as the actors do an all right job though they are fed some truly inane dialogue that could make a person cringe. Most people watch this film for Natasha Henstridge of course and she's nude quite a bit in the movie but does almost absolutely nothing else. She's not good as a seductress (much unlike Mathilda May of Lifeforce) and not a particularly good actress at all.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Suspense Filled Ride
Review: The reason I gave it four stars is that I enjoyed the way it was done, and how the make-up was done. The violence doesn't make it a great movie the nudity does...joking it is an extremely exciting movie and if you can stomach it, you'll enjoy it.


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