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Let's be realistic.

Good concept, poorly executed.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is yet another version of Robert Louis Steveson's THE STRANGE CASE OF DOCTOR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE and if truth be told this is possibly the most bland version you will see . It's inoffensive containing the sort of material that'd make it through he censors of a dull daytime TV soap . It is as uninvolving as it is inoffensive . Director Paolo Barzman doesn't have a big enough budget to do the story justice and much of the story is told in medium close up and we get some very choppy editing . When Doctor Jekyll relates a story about being in the Amazon we don't get an establishing shot of wild untamed majestic shots of the tropical rain forest we get a close up of a fire and a couple of Oriental extras giving the impression that it was filmed in someone's fireside living room . Hey I wonder if ....Scottish actor Dougray Scott plays the title character and he's somewhat ill cast in the role . His American accent is totally unconvincing as Dr Henry Jekyll and seems to think Mr Hyde is a bit of a camp homosexual , honestly the villain comes across as some pantomime dame and will have you booing and hissing and throwing popcorn at the screen . It's not even bad enough to be entertaining high camp , just ... oh what's the word ? ... oh bland . That's the word I'm looking forThat said I did see Dougray Scott in an episode of DOCTOR WHO a couple of weeks ago and his performance was probably the best thing about the episode so one wonders if he could be a ready made replacement for Matt Smith once he leaves the role . At the very worst Scott giving a bad performance as the Doctor would be ..... bland

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is set in Boston where Harvard graduate doctor & scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll (Dougray Scott) has developed a serum that allows for the separate of the good & bad within us creating a distinct personality for each. Unfortunately Dr. Jekyll's bad side who calls himself Mr. Hyde likes to go around killing young women, six so far. Convinced that he is responsible Dr. Jekyll turns himself over to lawyer Claire Wheaton (Krista Bridges) & confesses all but she doesn't believe him at first, eventually Claire agrees to defend Jekyll & bases her case on the fact that Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde are two completely separate people. Will the jury buy it? Will Dr. Jekyll get the death penalty for Mr. Hyde's crimes?This Canadian made-for-telly updating of Robert Louis Stevenson's much filmed novel was directed by Paolo Barzman & only keeps the merest themes & ideas from the original book with the setting modern America unlike period London & after the first fifty odd minutes the film switches from bland Jekyll and Hyde to a dull courtroom drama as Jekyll stands trial. There's not much atmosphere or attention to detail here, the kills are forgettable & tame, there's no bubbling test tubes or ancient medical equipment & the reasoning here is some nonsense about ancient Amazonian medical practices using rare flowers which never really comes to anything, neither does the film as a whole really. The murder trial is boring, there's no mystery, there's zero tension, the character's are poor, the dialogue is forgettable & it just feels small scale, Dr. Jekyll's housekeeper is retained from the novel but the main focus of the film is Claire the lawyer as it is from her perspective the story is told. At almost 90 minutes it feels long & there's a really predictable twist ending which you can see coming a mile off, the whole affair although competent is just bland & fails to generate any excitement or tension.Filmed many times this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is very modernized & it just doesn't feel like the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde films, it feels like a TV film with bright lighting, a family friendly lack of violence & since when did turning in Mr. Hyde let you get run over & knocked about six feet up the road by a huge truck & just get up & walk away totally unhurt? There's zero gore here, Jekyll slits his wrists & a bit of blood is seen on the floor but that's it.Although set in Boston this was filmed in Montréal in Québec in Canada, the whole film looks bland & there's no sort of atmosphere or style at all. Dougray Scott is rather flat as Jekyll & not much better playing Hyde, Tom Skerritt has a small role as Jekyll's friend.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a classic tale that has been filmed numerous times already going back to the 30's at least & this modern faceless & throughly dull adaption that turns into some horrible courtroom drama is surely unneeded & one of the worst & least recognisable when compared to the original Stevenson novel.

As a borderline schizoid and fan of the original short story I'm always up for perusing any new J&H material. After catching this curio on Sky I felt compelled to comment. The usual themes of duality and the nature of guilt and morality are all present and correct. As is usual in most screen re-imaginings of Stephenson's tale an obligatory love-interest is tacked on in the form of a pretty female lawyer with whom Hyde confides. There's no real gratuitous violence or gore here, the horror seems to be attempting to stem from the psychological, unfortunately this never really gels together. As such, we're left with a fairly entertaining if unnecessary and understated (there's no real physical changes apparent between Henry & Edward) version of the familiar story. There's a fairly feeble 'twist' ending that anyone not recovering from recent cranial surgery should see coming at least a couple of furlongs off.5/10. P.S: For a vastly superior contemporary take on the tale viewers could do much worse than check out the recent BBC mini series 'Jekyll' starring James Nesbitt. It's available on DVD and well worth a watch.

Although I obviously know the concept of Jekyll and Hyde, this is the first full film I ever saw on the subject. The movie was decent to watch, but I have the feeling it's a bit superficial. Never was I actually scared, shocked or thrilled. It was all too normal for my taste.Another negative side to the film is its ending. I guess a minimum of 90% of the viewers will be able to guess the ending after seeing the prison interview where the lawyer gives Jekyll the syringe.Despite this negative critique, the movie also has its up side. The film's mildly entertaining.All in all decent cinematography, quite superficial narrative, reasonable acting. It's 'watcheable' just don't expect too much of it.