Doctor Jekyll

Doctor Jekyll

2023
★★☆☆☆ 4.9/10
⏱️ 89 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
Horror
Recluse Dr. Nina Jekyll befriends with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.

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CinemaSerf
★ 6/10
I can't be the only one who thinks that Scott Chambers bears an uncanny resemblance to Barry Keoghan? Anyway, after a career in petty theft and drugs - and with a seriously ill daughter - "Rob" (Chambers) finds himself in front of the rather imperious "Sandra" (Lindsay Duncan) and her boss "Nina" (Eddie Izzard). The latter is looking for some help around her huge stately home and for some reason she takes a bit of a shine to the young man. After a shaky start, the two start to become friends and he is promised the funds to see his daughter "Ari" gets the treatment she needs. Snag? Well "Rob" has to help her out with a rather monstrous request. Has he got what it takes? The first twenty minutes of this are actually quite good - Duncan is fine as the over-bearing assistant and there's a bit of chemistry between Izzard and her new-found friend. Quickly though, there emerge a few silly sub-plots and, indeed, plot holes before an ending that I felt really quite disappointing. To be fair, Dan Kelly-Mulhern has tried to do something a bit different with this Stevenson story - never an easy thing when it's already been pretty much done to death - but this just runs out of steam by the half way mark and thereafter is all a bit daft. It's an OK watch for ninety minutes, but you won't recall it a week afterwards and there's really nothing remotely scary to worry about either.
November 1, 2023

Crew

Director
Joe Stephenson
Writer
Dan Kelly-Mulhern, Joe Stephenson
Producer
Jamie Anderson, Patrick Fischer, Piers Hunt

Production

B Good Picture Company, Fluidity Films, Hammer Studios Ltd., Hammer Film Productions, Fulwell 73 Productions, SoundNode

Keywords

based on novel or book