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.

**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.

So, to start things off I must say I am a purist at heart and strongly believe that if you are going to make/remake a beloved story you should try to stay as faithful to it as possible, otherwise it's a big F U to the person who wrote it and those who love it, basically you are saying "I could do this soooo much better than you" and in this case they were so completely and utterly wrong.The basic plot sounded OK - nerd hates being nerd, uses his nerd super powers in a chemical lab to make a magical drug that changes nerds personality into cool guys personality, but something goes wrong. A step away from the original idea I know, but hey they may have been able to update it and do it better....WRONG!!! The only part of this movie that even remotely stayed true to the original tale is the "there was something wrong with the drugs you got me" section. In the original story the purity of the drugs needed by Jekyll can not be found and he chucks a bit of a wobbly.The idea behind the story of Jekyll and Hyde is the monstrous other inside all people. Hyde is the complete opposite to Jekyll, this much they got right - but Hyde is supposed to be a twisted freak, he looks evil because he is evil, he kills when the opportunity arrives, he doesn't seek out victims, he is unarticulated and slightly slow, and I really can't remember him being all that sexually active because every time someone sees him their blood runs cool. The idea of the tale is that every human has a balance of good evil, if you try and bring out one side over the other the opposite side withers. Jekyll becomes weak and cannot change back, it is not completely his dependence on drugs that makes him revert to Hyde constantly it is Hyde's increased strength brought about by over flexing of the evil side of the personality.This movie is a travesty. It takes a rather intelligent investigation of the human personality/soul (written before psychology was as popular as it is today - in-fact I don't think it existed at the time) and turned into a party drug induced attempt at a slasher movie. The atmosphere is horrible, you spend about half an hour of the ending in complete blackness. You don't get any idea of a linear story line, Jekyll / Hyde shows flashes of memory of doing horrible things, but they last for two seconds and there is no explanation for any of it at all. It is marketed, I am guessing, as a slasher movie but doesn't contain enough blood to fit the category. The Director tried to be to artsy and it just comes off as badly planned, poorly written with an ending slapped on at the last minute. And, most objectionable of all, they turned it into a bloody love story. Jekyll and Hyde has no place for love, it has nothing to do with love, it has to do with good and evil, mad scientists and what can happen to you if you mess with the divine balance.THIS MOVIE SUCKS.Thank you for your time.

The DVD cover actually mentions Robert Louis Stevenson. But that does him no favours. Even the title isn't quite right. And the film is completely wrong. It has nothing to do with the original idea of a man trying to separate his good side from his evil side, and who finds that, even without the potion, his evil side starts to predominate. What we have in this film is students who drink and take drugs and think that sex is just for fun. And poor little J is a wimp or a nerd or just plain shy. So he takes his pills and experiments and finds that he really likes being an animal, with no conscience. And with sudden explosions and flashbacks,the film staggers on for about 85 minutes before coming to an obvious end. And poor RLS thinks: "I didn't write that rubbish, surely." No, sir you didn't. And those who did, shouldn't have.