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Anatomy 2

2003, Movie, R, 101 mins

Anatomy 2: Review

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ANATOMY (2003) delivered some grisly, inventive shocks, but this sequel squanders precious time playing catch up. For ambitious Jo Hauser (Barnaby Metschurat), admission to the staff of Hiedelberg University's affiliate hospital has an important ancillary benefit. While perfecting his skills, Jo can conduct research into a cure for his brother's chronic paralysis. Despite a warning from a friendly staff nurse, Jo leaps at the chance to join renowned neurosurgeon Professor Muller-LaRousse's (Herbert Knaup) elite Anti-Hippocratic Society; the innovative doctor has made great strides in synthetic muscle replacement. Smitten with student Viktoria (Heike Makatsch) and thriller to have been admitted into Professor Muller-LaRousse's inner circle, Jo doesn't fully appreciate that the professor regards his staff as guinea pigs; each fledgling doctor must submit to surgery that replaces a healthy organ or muscle with an electronically stimulated "improvement." Jo agrees to the insertion of an altered calf muscle; Hagen (Roman Knizka) opts for enhanced hands. The implications for Jo's wheelchair-bound brother are enormous. Though one former student lies in a coma allegedly caused by an accident during one of these surgeries, Jo recommends his sibling as a test case. Blinded by his fast-track status, Jo starts abusing a euphoria-inducing drug called Andromin and fails to fathom the extent of the conspiracy that surrounds him. Already furious that England is making headlines with similar advances, Muller-Larousse now learns he's being scrutinized by a watchdog group led by Paula Henning (Franka Potente), who studied at Heidelberg and uncovered a dreadful secret about the university's anatomical specemins. Defectors from the Professor’s secret society are not tolerated, even when Muller-LaRousse's subjects begin experiencing severe post-operative pain. When Sven (Frank Giering) starts airing his doubts about Muller-LaRousse's experiments, his classmates program his leg muscles so he walks right off a roof. Can Jo rescue himself and his brother from the mad scientist and his acolytes? Like THE CRIMSON RIVERS (2000), writer-director Stefan Ruzowitsky's follow-up to his SCREAM-style horror film resurrects the specter of the Master Race and has its creepy moments. But he concentrates on delivering on sporadic scares at the expense of figuring out how to make individual scenes coalesce into a coherent chiller about medical megalomania. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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