This film was not nearly as bad as judging from the comments by some Americans. Acting was good, dilemmas were relevant, only thing seriously lacking was contextualization. Characters weren't historically well contextualized to make their activities coherent. Action wasn't founded but happened unexpectedly out of nowhere . It gave a chaotic sense to the film. Calling this film boring is totally off base. This is not a boring film. It just tried to encompass too many complex topics into a relatively brief film: animalistic brutality, confusion of origins, the frustration of many unanswerable questions to existence and suffering, the fragility of civil society and the often rigid adherence to laws to maintain a community. The film portrayed the dilemmas of human condition, suspended somewhere between gods and animals. This film is definitely better than 90% of cheesy, brain dead, rubbish coming out of Holy wood.
Review of The Island of Dr. Moreau
