Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2000)

This a very scary movie. It has great acting. It also has great special effects. It also has great story line. If you do not get scared off this movie then no movie will scary you. Doctor Jekyll's wife his murdered. He wants revenge. He find a chains drug that bring out his inner evil. The is a master masterpiece in terror and revenge. A great horror. Best one one of the best horror books ever. This a very scary movie. The 1912 version is better. The 1920 version is better. The 1932 version is also better. So is the 1941 version. But still this is a great movie. This movie is a must see. Adam Baldwin is a great actor. Steve B.a.s.t.o.n.i

It all starts as your typical Hong Kong supernatural movie, the bad guys known as "The Dragon" seek to kill a person who is known in legend as "the tiger" in fear that he or she may destroy them one day. Along the way they run into Dr. Jekyll and his wife while on vacation. They know of Jekyll's reputation of being a professional chemist and want him to produce their drugs. He of course says no and they blow up his wife while not only leaving him for dead but at the same time framing him for the crime. He is rescued by an ancient Chinese medicine man who teaches him martial arts and the secrets of the medicine. He uses this knowledge to construct a chemical that increases his strength speed as well as change his personality into the revenge hungry Mr. Hyde, who single-handily took out the Dragon gang. It later turns out that he is the Tiger that the gang prophesied about. to me this movie is OK, but that's only a matter of opinion. I still recommend those whom haven't seen it to watch it.

This is the loosest adaptation of anything I've ever seen. In fact, loose doesn't even begin to describe it. What Sci-Fi has done is taken the title of the Robert Louis Stevenson's novella in order to draw viewers in, and nothing else.The TV movie follows Dr. Henry Jekyll, now a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. The entire supporting cast of Stevenson's story, even in name, is nonexistent. Jekyll travels to China with his new bride for a honeymoon. There he encounters Chinese mobsters who maim the doctor, kill his wife, and leave him for revenge.Up to this point, the movie had potential. An action-adventure vigilante retelling of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" might have been worth seeing. Unfortunately, the movie never even tries to live up to its source material. Dr. Jekyll apprentices himself to a local medicine man and studies martial arts under the name "Edward Hyde." It looks like Sci-Fi had to throw both of those names in there somewhere in order to keep the title. Eventually, in the final third of the movie, Dr. Jekyll does make a medicine that gives him glowing eyes, sharp teeth, and a killer edge. But Stevenson's theme of the struggle between good and evil inside of every man is unexplored. If Sci-Fi was going to take the title, they should have at the very least tried to stay true to the theme. Under the influence of the medicine, Dr. Jekyll is aware, even more aware, of what he is doing. Mr. Hyde is all alias, no altar ego.The acting performances are solid, but the movie is hard to enjoy when it begs to be compared to its classic source material. Before the halfway point of the movie, the "Based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson" in the credits seems like a bold-faced lie. If you enjoy American-in-China-kung-fu-action movies, and you have nothing better to watch, try this on for size. If you're looking for an adaptation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", avoid this, or you'll be sorely disappointed.

Perhaps this was a pilot for a TV series? The ending was left wide open for a sequel; it was an incredibly abrupt ending (not saying more so as not to spoil).It was entertaining, but not great. The connection to the original story is pretty slight, but I enjoyed the new twist on it.