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.
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.