D.N.A. – Experiment des Wahnsinns (1996)

D.N.A. – Experiment des Wahnsinns: Directed by John Frankenheimer, Richard Stanley. With Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk. After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.

“This wasnu0026#39;t as bad as I had been led to believe and was often nightmarish as well as gripping. I understand it was a troubled production and that may explain the uneven lurches in action. This film was saved by the excellent and committed performances by the actors who played the animals, who were really heartbreaking. Wells himself had an ambivalent attitude to the human race and was said to have had certain facist sympathies. However, Any philisophical points tended to be drowned by the rather garish direction. Brandou0026#39;s accent seemed wrong for the modern day setting of the film as well. A sad and distressing film that is well worth a look.”