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Dotbankey A lot of fun.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

JoeB131 Well, we all know the story. Kindly scientist takes a drug that turns him into a debauched killer. Been done a hundred times and there was no real good reason to do it again.Tony Todd and Tracy Scoggins are good actors, but they are really abused here. Note to Ms. Scoggins. You are a mature, accomplished actress. You can stop taking these roles that should be going to 20 year-olds.Todd fares little better. He seems to really be having fun doing the scenes as Hyde. His Jekyll seems to be subdued and not really into it.Much of the plot seems contrived, especially the parts to get Jekyll/Hyde into the costume that we'd traditionally expect to see Mr. Hyde in. I don't even want to go into the ending, where Todd converts into an ape and becomes bulletproof.

Nprnuno The immortal story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gets an update as we so often see with so many classics. The movie is a low budget adaption of the story that most of us are so familiar, either by other films, theater or the novel itself. Within the first few minutes, viewers are introduced to eeriness, horror and gore......Suspense has been built, and you simply got a taste of the horror to come; It can only get better. Right? Well, not quite. Tony Todd plays the dual role of Jekyll/Hyde and my respect for such a talented actor made me refrain from shutting this movie off early. Disregarding the low budget appearance of some scenes and it's questionable dialog throughout, it's still difficult to enjoy this horror film. Some of the biggest problems I had with this remake, was the horrendous job on Mr. Hyde's makeup. In some scenes, Mr. Hyde looks so fake you almost anticipate and imagine Tony Todd taking off his mask. I haven't seen such terrible makeup work, since The Howling 3 and the Wishmaster's sequels. The tag-line for this film is "Release the Beast".....Well, if you somehow enjoy this film up to it's conclusion, than maybe you can make better sense of the word "Beast" being used better than I did. Tony Todd's acting isn't that bad but it can't save this overall bad film. Another veteran in this film, is Vernon Wells; you remember the infamous Bennet villain from Commando? If you do, you will shake your head in disbelief as to how irrelevant his Dr. Dennis Lanyon character is in this. This update is creative and a twist to the original story. It starts with suspense and gore........It has decent Tony Todd acting.......but as it goes on, it gets closer to mediocrity. In my opinion, this movie failed miserably to capitalize on the excitement and suspense it introduced in the opening sequences.I rate this movie 2 out of 10. For Tony Todd's attempt to save this, and the creative retelling of a timeless classic story.

tom-2183 Release the beast! The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a terrific treat. To be honest, I expected very little from this independent remake when I went to see it on the big screen, but I was pleasantly surprised. Tony Todd is amazing. I always loved him in the Candyman movies, and here he did not disappoint. He is excellent in this low budget yet resourceful version of the story. His over the top bravura performance as Edward Hyde shines in contrast with his sensitive, understated portrayal of Dr. Henry Jekyll. This is a man in turmoil. In a clever plot twist, we as the audience actually gets to see inside Henry Jekyll's mind. As a paranoid schizophrenic, we actually come to realize that he believes that "Hyde" is another person. The screen really comes alive when we watch Jekyll and Hyde fight it out with each other. These two characters struggle with each other till the end of the movie, where it becomes an all out war of wills, culminating in a spectacular special effects studded finale. Highly recommended!

odupoptart I'm not going into the story, as I'm sure most people are familiar with the story of Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde already, so I'm just gonna go with the technical aspects. The film looked like a film school student's attempt to make a full-length feature. The actors were sub-par, the settings looked fake (I mean come on... a chief of police should have an actual OFFICE, not a CUBICLE!!), the dialog was amazingly horrible (listen to the dialog between Utterson, who is the chick detective, and the chief of police... it is so bad, it's hilarious!) and the special effects were low-quality. Mr. Hyde's make-up looked ridiculous... I think they used 2 wigs for Hyde, as in some scenes it looked black and in other scenes, it looked brown. The ending (which, as I said, I will not divulge)... well... what I will say about the ending is that it didn't tie the story up for me in a neat little package. In fact, the whole story was so jumbled up and it's obvious that the script needed at least one or two more revisions. Overall, it was confusing and it looked cheaply made. However, if you're stuck watching it with your boyfriend because he has to screen it for work, as was my case, it was a lot of fun joking the movie the whole time. But otherwise, I wouldn't pay to see this movie.