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Overview

User Rating:
5.2/10   1,733 votes
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Director:
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Writer:
Stefan Ruzowitzky (writer)
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Release Date:
6 February 2003 (Germany) more
Genre:
Horror | Thriller more
Tagline:
A new experiment in terror...
Plot:
The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser (Barnaby Metschurat) decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
promising start but too many clichés more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Ariane Schnug ... Junge Kellerin
August Diehl ... Benjamin 'Benny' Sachs
Herbert Knaup ... Prof. Charles Müller-LaRousse
Birgit von Rönn ... Referentin
Klaus Schindler ... Senator
Barnaby Metschurat ... Joachim Hauser
Hanno Koffler ... Willi Hauser
Beate Abraham ... Mutter Hauser
Oliver Kraatz ... Reisender

Rosie Alvarez ... Lee
Chimeta Reinemann ... Philippinische Schwester
Rosalinda Nolasco-Jacht ... Philippinische Schwester
Josie Thamm ... Philippinische Schwester
Maria Dolores Schramm ... Philippinische Schwester
Monika May Villanueva ... Philippinische Schwester
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Anatomy 2 (International: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, language, some sexuality and drug use.
Runtime:
101 min
Country:
Germany
Language:
German | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | SDDS
Filming Locations:
Berlin, Germany more

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Continuity: In the last scene in the Hospital where Jo is in a wheelchair you see him already holding a glass with aspirin before his girlfriend and nurse bends over him and gives him the glass. more
Movie Connections:
Follows Anatomie (2000) more
Soundtrack:
22nd Floor more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
promising start but too many clichés, 18 August 2005
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Author: Roland E. Zwick (magneteach@aol.com) from United States

From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. Mengele, Germany has developed quite a reputation for…hmm.. how shall we put it?…"unconventional" men of science.

It's appropriate, then, that the German film "Anatomy 2" should be a brave-new-world sci-fi thriller that deals with the issues of biomedical ethics and just how far science should be allowed to go in trying to "improve" on Mother Nature.

Professor Muller-LaRousse is a world famous neurosurgeon who has been covertly conducting questionable experiments, implanting synthetic muscles into perfectly healthy young men and women (who also happen to be his devoted interns). Even though a disturbing number of these "guinea pigs" have died as a result of the procedures, LaRousse forges on, undeterred and undaunted, convinced - as any mad scientist worth his salt would be - that scientific advancement cannot be allowed to run aground on the shoals of a few trivial dead bodies. His plan is to create some sort of "master race" of invincible semi-humans. Jo Hauser is a promising young doctor who has come to Berlin to work and study under LaRousse, confident that he will be able to make a real difference not only in the lives of others but particularly in the life of his younger brother who has fallen victim to a degenerative neurological disorder. Filled with idealism, Jo allows himself to be pulled into LaRousse's group of sycophantic acolytes, perhaps to his everlasting regret.

The film is obviously intended as a modern day allegory of Nazism - what with its emphasis on group-think, unethical medical experimentation and talk about creating a "master race" - but the movie feels just too much like other - and better - dystopian sci-fi fantasies to be very effective. The intriguing medical ethics issues are eventually shunted aside for a series of protracted action scenes overflowing with typical mad scientist malarkey and man-on-the-run clichés.

That's a shame because the movie starts off with a better-than-average premise that promises a thoughtful re-examination of an age-old theme. However, "Anatomy 2" just winds up being silly where it most desperately needs to be serious.

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