Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

David Roggenkamp One mad scientist's dream, results in one man's downhill journey from death to oblivion as an otherwise dead man, brought to life again and again, slowly becomes tortured with the process and goes insane; his only wish is to die.The rest of the film is spent exploring what it means to be the dead brought back to life and if the human body can survive without being able to feel. The mad scientist and the medical student continue their experiment to see what the eventual outcome will be.The movie shares an interesting premise. It is not uncommon for movies go to into great detail of how humans may spiral out of control with their sanity as they become the victims or willingly as the test subject of an experiment.I cannot say the movie is bad; it seems to be aiming at being a suspense film with slight bits of horror involved. The movie takes a look into the human mind and the philosophy behind trying to make the dead live once again. The movie is far from cheerful and would be quite disturbing to normal television. This movie will certainly fill that niche if you are looking for semi-horror with a good plot behind it.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=5183).

JasonUr Don't waste your time with this nonsense. there is no way that the good reviews on here are not connected with the film. It is god awful and makes no sense whatsoever. The actors did great, no probs there, but the story and direction were choppy and expect you to fill in the blanks which isn't a problem if you had things to go on. its ridiculous. there's a girl in the beginning you think has some meaning to the film, even half way through the film they show the main character was still holding her phone number she gave him in the beginning, but she is never seen again and was no reason for her to even be there. the real doctor comes back to life in the end again what they call a "twist" but was completely pointless, i cant even begin to point out all the things that are wrong with this movie. if this is what sundance lets in, i am gonna make my own movie now... hell this movie could have been cut down to 10 minutes if you cut out all the pointless long intervals of quiet and scenery. utter garbage and a waste of anyones time.

MBunge Movies, like all other stories, are aimed at and suited for different audiences. Some are meant for children, some for adults and some for adolescents who like to think they're adults. Movies that come out in the Summer are aimed at a mass audience that doesn't want to think to hard about their entertainment. Movies that come out toward the end of the year are aiming for awards and want to be admired more than they want to entertain. Subject Two is, or at least should've been, intended for a small but unique audience - students taking classes in film criticism.That's because reviewing this film would be a great final exam for such a class. It's made with care and skill and is definitely good enough to hold your interest, yet it also has some very large and glaring flaws. Those flaws shouldn't really detract from an otherwise worthy effort, but you shouldn't overpraise a movie because it's better than those soul-numbingly bad original films on the Sci Fi Channel.Subject Two concerns Adam Schmidt (Christian Oliver), a medical student who can't abide the ethical constraints of modern science. He's summoned to the snowy wilderness of the Colorado mountains by an anonymous offer of mysterious employment. After trudging his way up to a secluded cabin to meet a Doctor Franklin Vick (Dean Stapleton), Schmidt is asked if he'd like to assist in experiments in cryonics, nanotechnolgy and such stuff. Schmidt agrees…and is then strangled to death with a garrote. It turns out the experiment is Schmidt being repeatedly killed by various means and then resurrected through a special serum.That's a genuinely clever idea for a story. Just when you think there's nothing more to be done with the Frankenstein concept, you find Subject Two sitting on the shelves in your local video store. In addition to that clever idea, the movie is also competently directed and, since it was actually shot at a mountain top cabin in Colorado, uses the gorgeous natural scenery to great effect. And after such a strong start, you'll want to see where the story ends up going.Unfortunately, it doesn't go very far. The idea of Subject Two could have led to some fascinating explorations of life, death and killing. What would it be like to kill someone yesterday and have lunch with them today, all the while knowing you're going to kill them again tomorrow? What does it mean to kill someone over and over and over again? What is it like to know you're going to die, but also know it isn't going to last? Subject Two is exactly what science fiction was meant to be, taking human beings and putting them in unreal situations and thinking out how they would respond. The movie never lives up to that promise, though. The filmmakers had a clever idea, but they were content to stop with just that one idea. It falls back into a predictable and conventional narrative where the experiment starts to go wrong and…honestly, it kind of peters out after that. As it doesn't delve deeply into the human elements of the story, it's also fairly vague on the sci fi aspects of the tale. The movie implies that the resurrections are changing Adam Schmidt, but how and into what is never specific. When the experiment starts to go wrong, why it's not working is never clear and what is done to try and fix things is never explained at all.The actors do a fine job but even though just two characters are on screen for almost the entire film, they're never clearly defined. We're introduced to Adam Schmidt as one sort of person but he then becomes totally different after dying the first time. The man he meets in the cabin switches from calculating mad scientist to scared and uncertain at random times throughout the film, not because the actor is doing a poor job but because that's what the story requires.The only unequivocally negative thing about Subject Two is a glaringly lame "twist" ending. It wouldn't have been a good twist in even the best of circumstances but because the movie doesn't have much of a real ending, the lameness of it smacks you in the fact like 7 day old salmon.It's easy to rip a bad film and just as simple to gush over a great one. Movies like Subject Two, though, deserve more praise than lambasting because they start out strong and fall short. That puts it far ahead of many films and filmmakers that aren't even trying.

BroadswordCallinDannyBoy When someone or something dies in a movie, you know, "crosses over" and then "crosses back" we expect there to be something very wrong. We expect there to be something very frightening. We have seen this many times in stories like "Pet Sematary" and George Romero's "Dead Trilogy" to name merely two. Thing always come back nasty and vile and they really want to kill us for some unexplained reason. That unexplained reason, admittedly, adds to the horror, but after so many stories it has become something of a cliché."Subject Two" is a small film that takes on that cliché and instead of presenting us with the horrors of the undead it deals more with the emotions of life and death. What makes it interesting is that it deals with these emotions from both sides - the one who killed and the one who was killed and subsequently revived. To put it bluntly it's taking H.P. Lovecraft's tale of Herbert West the Re-Animator and taking it a step further. The nightmarish tone in that story is also removed and what's left is a delicate and personal tone shared by the only two characters in the story. There is no sensational jump scares or elaborate nightmare sequences just a tranquil look at what it is to lose life.However, the film could have used at least one nightmare sequence or some more elaborate horror imagery just so we could get a taste of what Adam is going through. The "I feel death" explanation suffices, though it is a kind of dull choice of words, but on the other hand, it just might be the only choice of words! Therefore, the film could have done with that nightmare sequence or something visual to accompany it.Overall, though, this is a well made film with a very interesting subject. --- 8/10Rated R for violence and gore. Ages 13+