It's Alive! Sort of.....

Rating: 4/10 (10 February 2012)

A cadaveric stitching together of elements which worked, once upon a time, with David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" and "Blue Velvet"...and then Luc Besson's "Leon: The Professional" with perhaps some of Scott's "True Romance" sewn in to boot. It's all in there..the atmospheric, haunting yet innocent musical score (sooo Lynchian!) The uber-violent yet yearning-to-be-innocent lead, a blend of Lynch's Sailor, Scott's Clarence and Besson's Leon, while Irene plays the iconic purely innocent compensatory female support which was manifest, in some form or fashion, in each of these films. The result? Something which, like Shelley's tragic/ironic monster, wants to live and love in a meaningful way, but instead simply lurches about mindlessly without pulling either off very well at all. Toward the end, had to fight the strong impulse to simply put the poor idiot out of its misery...i.e turn off the t.v. before the credits rolled.