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The Island of Dr. Moreau
In a story that looks very different as it speaks of more excitement and pleasure we live with the English negotiator (David Thewlis), who is still facing the tropics with the world of a madman (Marlon Brando), which makes monsters half of humanity, which threatens to destroy the world. It seems that in the end the negotiator discovers that he must try to stop him before it is too late.
26 December 1960, Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
21 May 1974, Point Reyes, California, USA
18 October 1969, Berlin, Germany
26 October 1960
26 February 1964, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
22 November 1966, Fishhook, South Africa
June 23, 2004
There's the obese Brando pretending to be God while dressed in gauzy white robes like a demented pope
April 27, 2005
Muddled effort.
January 01, 2000
Uneven; definitely has its moments.
May 08, 2003
The most exciting characters are killed off too early, and what we're left with is a Satan's "Seasme Street."
July 01, 2003
In its final third, the movie goes to hell in more ways than Frankenheimer intended.
August 16, 2016
Roughly akin to watching a slow-motion train wreck in which the flames spread into the brush and become an out-of-control wildfire. What the hell happened?
March 05, 2003
I'm sure it looked good on paper. That and Kilmer's frighteningly apt mimicry of Brando's voice are about the only positive things I can say.
August 19, 2012
It's not to say there's not a lot wrong with the film, but rather to suggest that the chief criticisms of it being strange and "a mess" aren't among them.
July 19, 2004
An often fascinating mess, but a mess all the same.
January 01, 2000
The movie keeps switching focus without ever getting its bearings, and when Brando exits earlier than expected, there's little but mayhem to fall back on.
October 24, 2003
Amazingly, Kilmer delivers an odder performance than Brando. Creepy retelling.