Metamorphosis

These Chinese monster movies are best taken in small doses, because they soon get stale with stereotypes. And this one is no exception. They use a pudgy person for comic relief. Certain characters that seem to run all right suddenly start to trip and fall and get themselves in danger. And one always seems to need an inhaler for asthma. And several think they can out run giant creatures. The scripts, with some variations, are all cookie cutter. This time it is set at a company using genetic splicing to create new creatures. The t-Rex is spliced from dinosaur, alligator and chameleon and some snake. So as part chameleon, it simply can disappear against the background. The snakes are spliced from different snakes, and get quite big. And of course it is a scientist doing things the company is not supposed to be doing. The CGI snakes are quite garish colored, and the t-Rex is all right, but later in the film gets some interesting color streaks. The idea is somewhat inventive, they simply need an inventive script.