Question:
What movie contains Two Academy Award winning actors, an actress who has won an Emmy, and a couple of additional highly respected actors?
If the cast is Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, Michael Madsen and Alfred Molina, then the movie is Species.
Natasha Henstridge hasn't really done much with her career after this, but this movie introduced her to movie audiences with her depiction of Sil, half human, half alien, and all dangerous.
The movie is a superior b-movie, enhanced by a great cast who aren't really slumming but are actually acting to their potential. And then there are the wonderful visuals inspired and derived from H.R. Giger. The plot of course is pure b-movie pulp, with Sil on the loose in Los Angeles, and the team assembled by Kingsley charged with stopping her before she creates lots more Sils. The movie switches from a number of set pieces from a science lab to police style procedural to the climax fighting Sil underground effortlessly.
I did and do enjoy the movie, even if the sequelae are best avoided.
Posted by Jvstin at February 1, 2008 10:08 PM