Anatomy (2000)

hyped garbage

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A Major Disappointment

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Anatomy is a movie best enjoyed by those who are between 16 and 45 who enjoy horror films, particularly those horror films with a medical/hospital theme. This is not a prime time film, but a late night or rainy afternoon film. I usually like horror films but this one lost most of its enjoyment for me because the sound track was off. It was either the sound track or the actors were not speaking English. The mouthing of the words did not match up with the speaking of the words. This pretty much destroyed the film for me. The film is rather a slow paced film, until it nears the end. Then, during the chase, the pace picks up. However, the ending has a little bit of a twist on it. Popcorn and pizza make great snacks for this low budget film. Enjoy.

I thought this movie was sooo bad. The acting was so terrible, the effects looked incredibly fake, the plot was just okay, the sequence and writing made NO sense at all.Overall, it was disgraceful. I have taken anatomy/physiology class, and honestly, the things they talked about and tried to make seem "cool" or somehow realistic, were really off.The plot was okay. The whole foreign country evil people horror thing has been played out way too many times. You will not like this movie. I couldn't even finish it, and I've seen worse. Do yourself a favor and don't see it. Even if you have the time, and boredom.

I had never seen Franka Potente before The Bourne identity, and I fell in love with her immediately. So far, I have only been able to get my hands on one film featuring her, and it's a real winner for those that like mystery/suspense with a little gruesomeness.No, it doesn't feature her bod, nor that of the incredibly beautiful German TV Star Anna Loos. Anna was hilarious with her "naughty" comments throughout. (As an aside, she is supposedly the lead singer of, or a member of a band called Leck mich am Arsch, which is also the name of a Mozart composition. You can have a lot of fun googling that bit of German.) She does do a song in the movie soundtrack.She is a doctor doing some research and stumbles on an old German medical society that does autopsies on people while they are still alive, using some sort of paralyzing drug. Lots of suspense as they discover she knows who they are and come after her - sort of like Extreme Measures.Also stars Benno Fürmann, who was in the superb Joyeux Noël, and who I am sure many will see in next year's Speed racer. Yes, it's not just Frake and Anna; there are plenty of German hunks for the ladies.

1st watched 6/24/2007 - 4 out of 10(Dir-Stefan Rujowitzky): OK thriller, but a little too predictable. This story is based in Germany, which is also where the movie is made. It is about a young medical student who gets a shot to go to a premiere school in Heidelberg and arrives seeing some strange things occurring. Someone she met on the train there and saved, shows up on the school's experimentation table and she's suspecting foul play right away. She does some investigation and the disappearance of her friend leads her to a secret society called AAA(and no it's not Alcoholics Anonymous) that has something to do with the anti-Hippocratic oath and is used to perform experimentations on live people that doctor's wouldn't normally be able to do. She finds out her grandfather(who was a dean at the school) was a big part of establishing it and it's pretty readily filled by members of the school. It's an interesting story but the problem with this movie is how quickly the audience is told what's going on and then it's kind of a horror movie with the heroine fighting off the bad boy of the group that's taking things to the next psychotic level. Although this movie was made in Europe, it plays to a young American audience with it's focus on gore, sex and the horror film premise(which is really it's big downfall) and explains why it probably made good money and spawned a sequel but doesn't necessarily make for a good movie.