pretty good,but disgusting

Rating: 8/10 (24 February 2007)

i thought this movie was quite well done,very atmospheric and creepy.Jeff Goldblum plays,Seth Brundle,A quiet,introverted scientist who spends most of his time alone working on his new project.Geena Davis plays Journalist Veronica Quaife,a journalist who Seth invites to his place to show her what he is working on.up to this point,Seth's experiments(teleportation) have been successful with inanimate objects,and not so successful with living creatures.Seth thinks he has worked out the bugs and tries the experiment on himself.the experiment goes horribly wrong.Seth begins to change from being mild mannered and shy to something else.Jeff Goldblum is terrific in showing the gradual mental deterioration of the scientist as he slowly becomes almost messianic,then terrified at the physical changes happening to him.the actual physical transformation that Seth undergoes is startling,but the final transformation is something else entirely and somewhat disgusting.but well done,considering the movie is over 20 years old.Geena Davis is good in her Portryal of a woman at 1st fascinated and then terrified by what has happened.the best part of this movie is the musical score by Howard Shore,which is very moody and eerie.Nile Rodgers also contributes a nice pie of music to the film with the original song "Help Me".i'd have to give "The Fly" 8/10