Media Type : DVD | Rating : 6.5 out of 10 | Watched on : June 21^st, 2004

Release Date : September 8^th, 2000 | New & Used DVD Price : $22.46 & $16.99

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Every once in a while you come across a movie that sends some spine-tingling shocks through your body when you least expect it. This movie comes very close to such shocks, telling us a story line that’s unique and very well told. The movie tells us the story of Paula Henning [the talented Franka Potente from the masterpiece Lola Rennt, otherwise known in America as Run Lola Run], who gets accepted to an Anatomy University and gets involved in her classes and practical experiments on deceased human bodies until she starts getting hints as to how these bodies were deceased.

The movie contains many different characters, who are explained a bit in depth, giving more strength to the story and bringing more colorful flavors [red, mainly] to the movie. The movie is shot in many different environments, mainly within the vast halls and experiment laboratories within an actual University [Technische Universität München]. The movie gives the required time to each plot and aspect of the movie, building a staircase that leads the viewers into the depths of the story line and the background of the different characters themselves, giving us an idea as to why something happened the way it happened, and why the characters are acting in a certain manner.

If possible, try to get the uncut DVD version of the movie, which should give you all the chills you may need or want from a movie that shows you in glory on how it is like to dissect someone, alive, in different manners in the name of science and progress of humanity. The movie may not be a good supplement for your dinner, but it will give you the surprise you should expect from a masterpiece. This movie, in my opinion, is a masterpiece in terms of its story line. The story does, however, wind up by combining all the source of the evil problem into one guy. This guy does act really good; however, when the evil has a face, a name, a body and a character that can be punched, it does take out the suspense, most of it, from the story line, specially when this revelation happens near the 2^nd half of the movie. Even then, you should be hooked to the movie to see how the movie ends. This is not a movie to be seen on a date, unless your significant other loves anatomy.