Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) This is "Anatomy", a German psychological thriller film from 15 years ago. It is actually one of the more known German movies abroad and it features Franka Potente playing the lead character briefly after her breakthrough in "Lola rennt". Looking at how long ago this was made, it is a bit surprising that so many actors in this film are actually still very popular today. This includes Benno Fürmann, Oliver Wnuk, Sebastian Blomberg, Anna Loos and maybe Rüdiger Vogler, who already worked in the 1970s with Wim Wenders. The writer and director is Stefan Ruzowitzky, from Austria. He won an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Feature category for "Die Fälscher" a while ago, but "Anatomie" or maybe also "Die Siebtelbauern" were his breakthrough films.Here we follow a young medicine student who gets accepted at a prestigious university, but quickly finds out that there are dark forces performing unethical experiments on a regular basis. The most interesting fact, however, is that these are not the real antagonists in this movie. It is more the radical wing of this group I just mentioned who are not scared of killing whenever and whomever they like. Now my general perception of this film is a double-edged sword. I liked parts of it and felt is was a decent thriller, but other parts I was not too fond of at all. This already starts with my perception that Fürmann, Loos and Wnuk are simply no talented actors in my opinion. Especially Loos did nothing for me here. Literally, the only reason why I felt she was in this film was to show her in the end when she was dead. Apart from that, Holger Speckhahn is not an actor by any means. Not even a good television show host, but even worse as an actor. Blomberg, who has more range, has been given a stupid role of a love interest to the main character that adds almost nothing to the film where he cannot put his talent on show at all. The only somewhat good thing was that you could wonder about basically every character in this film if he was good or bad and keep changing your opinion throughout the entire film repeatedly. For example, I was fairly certain that Loos' character would be actually evil and her friendship with Potente's character was just facade.Talking about Potente, she looks stunning in here and she is also maybe the best actor in this movie. Sad to see her career has gone south a lot since then. The ending credits include a nice German song names "Alles" ("Everything") and the refrain says something like "do you believe this was already everything?". This does not really make sense in terms of the story in this film, but it makes sense looking at the fact that Ruzowitzky made a sequel a couple years later. About this one here, I recommend it to fans of horror thrillers or fans of scalpel action, but everybody else can do without it. It's not half as good as it's famous.

trashgang Before Franka Potente became famous with the Bourne trilogy she made this German movie. As a student in, you guessed it, anatomy she has to go to the most important school to learn that but there is a secret. Some people joined a kind of mason. She notices that something is terrible wrong in the school and she starts to investigate. Wrong. What happens next isn't really horror it's more some kind of thriller but you really have to watch it for the effects. A few years ago it was a hype to see the exhibition Kopferwelten. What you saw there is what we have here only they didn't used real bodies but it was so nicely done that it could be used in classes. It never becomes gory or even bloody, it is really the atmosphere that creates the movie. But it is one that you must have seen because, some people fears that it could happen to you....

mario_c ANATOMIE is a German horror thriller which main topic is an interesting issue: the ethic and the limits in medicine. The plot isn't very different from the typical horror flick but this specific thematic turns it a bit more interesting. In the film it's described a secret Masonic organization called A.A.A (Age Actabile Antihippocrate) - which I suppose to be fiction – that denies the Hippocrates's ideals of helping and healing. Medicine is a science, and it must be developed without caring about ethical thoughts they say. It's precisely this "implicit debate" what I found more attractive in this film and different from other flicks. I'm not telling it's completely original or brilliant, I just say it's a bit different, in good way... Apart from that it's a typical movie from the "psycho chasing victim type". It has nice suspense scenes, mainly in the last 15 minutes, but nothing outstanding... I score it 6/10.

extensiveburns I saw Anatomy when it came out and recently bought it and the 2003 sequel and as I watch a lot of foreign films in various genres, you have to watch movies in their original language for sure. Not only is it annoying to know the voices don't belong to the actors, but they always seem cheerful, like the whole movie is one big long toothpaste commercial or something. It makes an otherwise awesome movie seem horrible and I have had to convert a lot of my friends who used to think foreign films aren't as good as North American films - that they aren't "Hollywood enough". Also, they translation is never right, it's too literal, and screws up the vibe of the movie, even if it's basically saying the same thing. I watched Anatomy by myself the other week in German then with subtitles with my roommate because he was on his laptop and didn't want to have to miss parts when he couldn't see the subtitles because he was typing. 30 mins in and he begged me to let him finish his work then start the movie over with subtitles. He loved it! Both movies are awesome as intellectual horror films! Kelly