Evolution
                 Available on DVD and video

                      Reviewed by Sue

Yes, I've been catching up on films lately. Having enjoyed AI,
next I hired Evolution from my local library.

Staring David Duchovny (Dr Ira Kane) and Orlando Jones (Dr Harry
Phineas Block), it starts with a meteor crashing on Earth from
outer space. It ends up in a cavern below ground.  Harry is a
geology lecturer at the local community college and also the
representative for a US Department (he got the post accidentally
over the Internet). He has to check out any such events in his area
and make an official report. He persuades Ira, biology professor
at the same college, to go with him and Ira collects some liquid
that exudes from the meteor when they hit it to take a sample.

Looking at it under the microscope in his lab, he's amazed to see
single-celled organisms moving about it in. By the time he
persuades Harry to look, they've been replaced by multi-cellular
organisms. Harry can see a Nobel Prize on the horizon, but Ira is
more concerned about the implications in terms of evolution. It's
happening way too quickly!

By now, the military have become involved and cordoned off the
site so the duo have great problems trying to grab a specimen they
can examine in the lab. They get involved with a local
firefighter, who was there when the meteor crashed, and a
government scientist as the four of them try to save the world.

The next thing is, more strange creatures start turning up in the
cavern and in town - first little worms, then larger amphibians.
Many of them are very vicious. The only good thing is that none of
them can breathe oxygen so within minutes of evolving, they die.
So far ... What will happen once they start breathing air?

This is a fun film, very entertaining and with some great
creatures in it especially the cute animal found in a cupboard
that turns out to have some very nasty habits! As always with
these sorts of films, I got very annoyed with the military who
were typically narrow-minded. Duchovny is good but Jones is
brilliant. I haven't seen any other films he's been in but will
look out for him in the future. A very funny guy.

7/10 Slows down a bit towards the end and was a bit too far
fetched even for me!












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