Synopsis:
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross (Justin Lazard) isn’t exactly himself. He’s slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity
with one goal to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker (Marg Helgenberger) and hired assassin Press Lennox (Michael Madsen) use Eve (Natasha Henstridge), a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve mates with Ross.
Species
The final version of
Species shortens most of the nude scenes. Such as the debutantes having sex with Patrick, or the strip-club sequence. The DVD extra features contain the full scenes. (
10 great American neo-noirs of the 1990s
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This disjointed neo-noir thriller admittedly boasts some great performances (most notably from Gary Oldman in the role of a corrupt NYPD homicide detective), stunning cinematography and a seething score by Mark Isham. If only the plot were half as great!
That said, all the ingredients are there but somehow they just don’t make for a particularly tasty concoction. This 1993 thriller starts where the story ends – that is to say with former homicide detective Jack Grimaldi (G. Oldman) now working as a bartender in the middle of the desert (presumably Arizona or New Mexico) under the name Jim Daugherty. Looking at a photo album – in particular photos of his wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra) - in a melancholy way his thoughts are narrated before we find out via flashback how Jack Grimaldi came to be Jim Daugherty…
Romeo is Bleeding is an exercise in overwrought style and overwritten melodrama, and proof that a great cast cannot save a film from self-destruction.
The movie belongs to a modern genre we could call meditations on film noir. It doesn t want to be film noir, but it wants you to know the filmmakers have seen a lot of noir, and understand it enough to be ironic about it. Since noir itself is the most ironic of genres, this approach is usually doomed: You can t kid a kidder.
(When it works, as in The Grifters, you basically end up with the noir and not the kidding.) The movie stars Gary Oldman, unsurpassable in roles of this type, as a crooked, greedy cop named Jack Grimaldi who is working both sides of the street. Assigned to a witness-protection program, he sells his secrets to a mob boss (Roy Scheider). In his off time, he cheats on his wife (Annabella Sciorra) with a mistress (Juliette Lewis) who indulges his fantasies with an exhausting willingness.
Species II (1998) Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, (Black Sheep)
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On July 7th, 1995, a little Sci-fi horror film called Species opened up in theaters to a great box office success and solid reviews from critics and fans. Natasha Henstridge had her acting debut as Sil, the sexy and dangerous alien lifeform whose sole purpose is to mate and survive. It played well against the more seasoned actors like Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker, and Alfred Molina. Species was a surprise genre hit with an impressive cast that ended up being MGMs biggest film opening (at the time) and came in right behind
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