MBunge I've been bored by movies before, but this is the first time I've ever watched a movie that's bored with itself.As yet another version of the classic story (which the film itself specifically notes), this time around it concerns medical students who make and use their own party drugs. Henry "J" Jekyll (Bryan Fisher) is one of the students who tries to create a personality-altering drug, ends up unleashing a violent persona who calls himself Hyde and yadda, yadda, yadda, you know how the story goes.At least you'd better know how it goes, because this movie isn't at all interested in telling the actual story. It doesn't tell much of any story. If you had somehow never heard of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde before, you'd have virtually no clue as to what this movie is trying to do because most of that tale is missing. The elemental struggle of man against his darker self is only briefly and shallowly touched upon. Most of that conflict, the essential nature of the Jekyll/Hyde story, is left off the screen. It's as though the audience is supposed to just fill it in on their own as they watch.What we do get is what seems like an entire film made up of deleted scenes, all the stuff that wasn't very good, wasn't really necessary or didn't really contribute to the plot. The best way I can describe this movie is to ask you to imagine some making a 5 hour long Jekyll and Hyde movie. Now imagine them editing the weakest and least interesting 97 minutes out of that film. Now imagine the original video got destroyed and they had to go back and splice together that 97 minutes of cut footage to try and make a movie out of that.The people who made this film also apparently know how to shoot a movie but don't know the meaning of anything they do. For example, throughout the film there moments when we're shown a scary door. The door keeps showing up and we keep moving closer and closer to it. The idea clearly is to create some dramatic tension – What is the door? Where is it? What does it mean? What's on the other side? But when we finally get to the door in the story, not only is it just a door and not only is there nothing really interesting on the other side, but the movie actually shows us everything on the other side before we get to door. The door is opened and it's just the stuff we've been watching for the last 15 minutes. It's like a game show where they show you what's behind Curtain # 3…and then ask you to guess what's behind Curtain #3.The acting in this movie is okay, given that no one's ever really has to be much more than standard horror movie cannon fodder. Bryan Fisher, though, really fails with one of the naturally great roles in fiction. Not only is his Jekyll nothing more than a cliché, but his Hyde is a joke. Mr. Hyde is supposed to be savage, threatening and monstrous. Fisher's Hyde is like a 20-something douchebag who's watched too many John Woo movies.The only redeeming feature in this story is that it suggests interpreting the Jekyll/Hyde dynamic in terms of the modern understanding of addiction - Jekyll being a junkie and Hyde being the high he's desperately chasing. But other than having a character specifically refer to that idea out loud, nothing ever comes of it.Jekyll+Hyde isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but it might be the most pointless. The filmmakers were clearly bored with just telling another version of the story, didn't have anything new or different to add to it, but still went ahead with making the movie anyway.

Mike Hawk **READ THE WHOLE THING PLEASE**First off let me start with the few good things I found in this movie. The main actors were pretty good, pretty realistic scenes, and it teaches the good moral that messing with drugs will ruin you.Prepare yourself for the long list of bad things. First of all the actors were all so random but that doesn't bother me. The movie was soo goddamn slow! I ended up fastforwarding most of the movie. At least 30 minutes of this movie was nothing but slow bullshit. The other thing that really annoyed me is that they emphasized way to much on the characters drinking and taking drugs. For 20 minutes straight I wasted my life watching these actors take shots and pills in a bar while flirting with whores. At least 85% of this movie was nothing but actors in an extremely dark setting which really annoys me watching. The scene cuts as soon as it starts to get good. The beginning of the movie spoils the rest and leaves you thanking the questionably existing God that the movie actually has an ending. Most importantly you notice the only way the sick and twisted director even came close to the actual Stevenson plot line was the he mentioned the names Jekyll and Hyde. The director gives an effort to modernize the movie but he fails because he changed the plot too much. In addition to the rating they should provide the side effects of watching this movie which include but are not limited to: -inserting your genital areas into a mechanical pencil sharpener, -stapling your eyelids shut, -setting your TV on fire, -ingesting toxic amounts of antifreeze, -suffering a slow and painful death, -sudden urges to bathe in sewage, -developing brain tumor, -questioning the existence of god, -(somehow) obesity, -severe mental retardation, -suicide.Overall the worst movie created, destroys the name of Stevenson's classic, and should be erased from the history of mankind so that when we die out aliens will acknowledge the existence of intellectual human beings and not retarded animals.

johannes2000-1 The story of Jekyll and Hyde was of course used for movies like a zillion times, so a director that takes up this worn-out theme should think twice about what he can add to all the others. I wonder if this director thought even ONCE, for this version didn't bring anything new whatsoever (apart from a 21th century make-over), I thought it even worse, to be honest. Whereas the classic interpretations (and of course the novel itself) show us the inner turmoil of an ambitious scientist, here we just see a dull and sulky student (okay, VERY good-looking, I grant him that!), stuffing himself with a self-made drug and blabbering into his camcorder from time to time how it effects him. This goes on and on until the end, and we never get any good reason or motivation.The movie is wavering between a psychological thriller and a horror-flick, and as a result it turns out as neither. For a horror-movie it's too boring, apart from some creepy music (quite good, by the way!), all the exciting things that could help to enliven the movie (like witnessing the brutal murders of Hyde) take place outside the range of the camera. Furthermore it badly lacked an involving storyline, because nothing much really happens.And then there were many illogical inconsistencies. How could Jay keep up his work as a medical student, while raving night after night? Where did he get the money that he so obviously and lavishly spent when he was Hyde? How come none of his friends ever met him during these Hyde-outings, the "Hyde-effect" didn't change his appearance at all (apart from the obvious dropping of his glasses). And what happens to all the bodies that he supposedly leaves after him throughout town, doesn't the police do anything?? There's even a body in his bath-tub that he (again out of our sight) approaches with some kind of acid. Are we to believe that this makes a body evaporate into thin air? And how can he build up and maintain a complete drugs-lab in a building that's obviously under construction so where working-men should walk forever in and out?? Even the ending is dumb. His (ex-)girlfriend and his professor wander for some 15 tedious minutes through the building (the one that's under construction, but not one construction-worker is in sight, although it's the middle of the day) before finding that Jay just killed himself – there goes your climactic finale!! Strangely enough, the suicide by blowing his brains out is shown in total close-up and is even repeated two or three times, as if the director wanted to make up for not showing any other violence in the movie.In conclusion, this movie is over-pretentious, totally superfluous and a waste of Bree Turner, who's not only very good-looking but also a fairly good actress.

hannibunny I've seen Jekyll+Hyde with some friends the other night and must rate it a nine out of ten. No question the story has been told several times before and the idea behind this version is not really completely different – but hey, that's what you want to see if you choose to watch a classic. Keeping in mind that this one is a low budget production, I must say the crew did an excellent job. Especially the music and the sound effects are absolutely stunning. It will blast your head off. I'd love to know whether there is a soundtrack available. Does anyone know?? Also the acting of Martha and Hyde is outstanding. I have never seen these guys in another movie before to be honest. Great cast! All in all the movie is definitely worth watching and will get a good place in my DVD-shelf. It has some really sick scenes and shots in it. I will definitely keep an eye on the guys from Urban Chillers Films. Curious what the will come up with next… greetings from Germany. Hannes