I kinda liked this movie. In this modern-day parable of Frankenstein-meets-Hitchcock, a science research student is study reanimating dead mice—requiring hefty doses of chemicals extracted fatally from other living mice—when the woman he loves falls in a lake and drowns. You can imagine what happens next.
Of all the places that could have gone, this handles it pretty well. I’m not sure I’d recommend anyone going out of their way to watch this movie, and it sure takes a while to get going but once it did, I liked it. Some of the violence, while not particularly bloody, is pretty coldly brutal, but I suppose as the scientist gets colder in his pursuit of reanimating the woman he loves, the one or two moments of truly brutal violence sort of fit the character development.
It’s a little predictable at points too, and falls back on cliches at odd moments, plus there’s an unnecessary coda tacked on that I think weakens the movie; they could have just ended it after the denouement. But overally I’d say it crosses the line into slightly enjoyable. Don’t go into it expecting more than that and you won’t be disappointed.