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19 out of 23 people found the following review useful: A decent effort, with good and bad points, 28 August 2008 Author: t-birkhead from United Kingdom
I can't say I had much hope for this one and I must confess I mainly watched it thinking it might be amusingly bad. More fool me, for this is in many respects quite a gnarly film. The duo behind it, Adam Gierasch and Jace Anderson had previously worked on scripts for movies which didn't impress me much, but in the directors chair, Gierasch does very well, keeping a dark, edgy mood for much of the first half of the film and letting things go nuts in the latter. The story sees some young adults who have a road accident and land up in a freaky hospital, where as one might expect, things go very wrong. For b picture veteran Robert Patrick plays the head doctor and Jenette Goldstein is the head nurse, and anyone familiar with the former from such roles as T1000 in Terminator 2 or the latter as Diamondback from the great Near Dark can tell that this ain't no ordinary hospital. Without going into details, things get very nasty. There's grue and some sinister sights right from the get go, enhanced by the creepy setting and some Argento style lighting and direction tricks. Then things get pretty savage and there are some good tense moments as well as some pretty mean goings on. In theory this could have been really mighty but it's held back by the writing and characterisation. None of the good characters are very fleshed out or sympathetic beyond their plight, so whilst the actors do their best its hard to care about them. Plus the bad characters are caricatured and bar Jenette Goldstein's convincingly bossy, imperious nurse not too interesting. Robert Patrick's doctor could have been a great mad scientist (named Dr Benway in a cool Naked Lunch reference) but while his motive is clear, its never explained why the specific things he does will help him achieve his goal. Hence a lot of the time it seems like the gore scenes have no point beyond shocking the audience and this gets kinda obnoxious. Also, the tone wavers between sheer grimness and sick humour but the mixture is too much in favor of the grim for the humour to leave more than a bad taste and work against the overall effectiveness of the film. There are some funny lines but they don't work with the mean spiritedness. These issues come to the fore in the second half, which largely abandons the earlier chills in favor of going for brutality and by the end much of the entertainment value has seeped away. I don't have a total downer on this film, since it is impressively nasty, with ace gore effects and it is on the whole well directed. I'd recommend it to gore hounds and to an extent to fans of the aforementioned genre stars. Its as gruesome as any of the recent crop of Hostel/Saw type titles but I craved better characters and a more developed story, especially since the story and setting had tons of potential. Still, don't let me put you off, it went down a treat at the screening I saw so watch it if it seems like your kind of thing.
25 out of 43 people found the following review useful: Awesome Horror Stuff, Must See, 22 March 2009 Author: San Mahajan from India
I was not expecting much from this movie.. this movie turned out to be far far better then what I thought it would be.This is a must see for every horror fan. I think this movie is under rated cause if they would have hired well known stars this movie would have rocked on box office.All though acting is great from all stars. Story is cool and many new things to see.Well done..This is from a true horror fan..Thanks
5 out of 5 people found the following review useful: Bland and disappointing, 6 May 2009 Author: Sabalon from United States
For some reason I was really looking forward to this movie - the description, the poster, something just made it good. And I may be a bit harsh because I felt let down. It had some good parts, and gore if you like that.The plot, pretty basic, reminded me of Night of the Dead: Leben Tod for the most part. It is pretty straight-forward and predictable, and I think about 3 good jump scenes. I was worried at first with the Mardi Gras footage that it was going to be another "handheld" style, but that was just for the credits thankfully.A couple of rewrites could have made this work a lot better. The main problem is you really don't care. You don't care about the kids, you don't care why the bad guys are doing anything - there is just nothing. Robert Patrick's Doctor could have had some real depth to him if they tried. The nurse is so stereotypical it's not worth it. The lead actress did deliver a good scene, but that was an exception to the script.All in all, it had some memorable moments for those into the Saw/Hostel style gore, but mostly it was forgettable.
5 out of 6 people found the following review useful: Gross, Boring, String of clichés, 29 May 2009 Author: doogiegonegood from United States
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This movie is getting a 2/10 just because the lead is nice looking. What to say about this movie... -It's not a real serious, or truly terrifying movie -It's not a funny, enjoyable B-movie either. -It is a string of innocuous, retarded, and text-book cliché scenes we've all seen a thousand times. The characters are so stupid you don't even care about them. -The lead walks around with vomit on her chest and tank-top for the latter quarter of the movie. -This was the first time I felt bad for the actors who had to stand and participate in these scenes, they were actually pretty good.
9 out of 14 people found the following review useful: Strange Movie, 22 March 2009 Author: dschmeding from Germany
"Autopsy" is a really strange movie that takes pretty obvious elements from other movies but still manages to have some identify. The movie starts with some bad clichés, like a car full of kids having a crash and standing around the scene like in "I know what you did last summer", but then the movie turns and they get taken to a creepy hospital with some strange docs and nurses where they get counted down in a "Crazy doc needs living patients in sick experiments to keep is beloved wife alive" plot. The movie is carried from the strange suspense of an abandoned hospital with crazy lit endless floors (the visuals are pretty different from your average horror/slasher movie) and the crazy hospital staff that mixes utter weirdness with black humor and some rather disturbing elements. Its often hard to tell if "Autopsy" takes itself serious because it stumbles from comedic strangeness to extreme violence and grossness in a second. Scenes like the head bashing remind of Irreversible in their rawness and there was really times I wonder "WTF was that supposed to mean" up to the strange ending. To keep it short... "Autopsy" has many things going for it in the shock and visual department as well in strange characters. Problem is that these elements appear very disjointed in the plot and are pretty much leading nowhere. The movie is often described as a comedy which made me expect something like "Brain Dead" but where "Braindead" clearly doesn't take itself serious "Autopsy" comes across dead serious more often than it makes you smile (and you won't smile if your humor is not pitch-black, believe me), so don't expect a comedy here.
3 out of 3 people found the following review useful: High on gore, pretty weak on the script and acting at places, 27 March 2009 Author: Lucifer
The movie indeed delivered more than it promised but i was not very impressed, except for the gore. Even with a pretty weak story line and some pretty bad acting, the movie still had some solid tense moments.There are some gross inaccuracies in the portrayal which steal much of the charm of the movie. During the lumbar puncture, the doctor withdraws way too much CSF, that could cause brain stem herniation and instant death. Over that, the color of the CSF if clear and not bright yellow shown in the movie. For the sake of building up suspense, the hospital has been shown to be completely deserted and still the guys in the movie don't grow suspicious over it. I was really surprised at the callousness of the police officer following the 911 call to he hospital... he seemed to be in a terrible haste to go! the concept of the organs being suspended out of the body and acting as a life support system for another person is truly astonishing except that it is outright impossible the way it was portrayed in the movie! Other than gross medical inaccuracies, there are moments of extremely poor acting and direction.On the whole, i would give the movie 5/10 for the gore factor. Other than that, its a pretty much copy-book style movie.
7 out of 11 people found the following review useful: One of the best horror movies I've seen recently..., 23 March 2009 Author: Viktor Lyaskov from Sofia, Bulgaria
OK, so to be honest with you I nearly wet my pants last night when I saw this movie. Autopsy is a very creepy and pretty bloody. It's strange and it's shocking. The scientific element brings in some extra interesting moments. The whole idea of the mad, but in a way genius scientist, trying to treat cancer (well in a quite unusual way, but still :) was very impressive. To keep it short - spectacular special effects, gave a pretty real impression, however gore scenes were a bit too much for me, script was nice, the characters need a bit more personality because they were pretty stiff and unnatural in a way. Anyway very decent movie! 8/10
2 out of 2 people found the following review useful: Autospy revealed major plot holes!, 27 April 2009 Author: thomyorkeradio from France
Are you kidding? I like horror movies and this one is probably one of the worst I've ever seen. Robert Patrick et Robert Lasardo are good actors and cult for me (Robert Patrick as the T1000 and Robert Lasardo as Escobar Gallardo in the series Nip Tuck), the cast was probably OK, but there is a complete lack of coherence in the script. It looks like a bad TV movie.We can clearly see that all the cast is lost as they don't really act well. even Robert Patrick is desperately static and doesn't seem to enjoy playing his part.There are major plot holes every five minutes. For example, Emily (played by Jessica Lowndes) got a hole in the head, managed to escape from the scrub, and we won't told about that ever. she doesn't seem to feel pain when she runs nowhere in the hospital. who cares? Dr. David Benway (Robert Patrick) talks about patients as host. For what. You'll never know.The cop comes to check the hospital, theoretically closed 3 years ago, but it doesn't bother him. Emily lets the nurse lock her in a room, we can hear the sound of the lock, and after that she's trying to open that door, and looks surprised. Well we're not!All these people are completely dumb, it's a classic in horror movies but honestly, don't tell me it's a must see...
3 out of 4 people found the following review useful: gory, but devoid of atmosphere or suspense, 16 August 2009 Author: TheatreX from Louisville, KY
First off, we have a bunch of twenty-somethings at Mardi Gras, getting loaded, and then, for some reason (being loaded, maybe?) they have an accident and crash into a tree. Apparently they were also so loaded that they didn't notice a body under their car, a man, still alive, who has escaped from a local hospital, and moments later, an ambulance with two orderlies that were looking for the guy happens by conveniently. Since the kids are rather banged up, they're also taken into the hospital.A rather strange place, this hospital, and according to the duty nurse, they're running on a skeleton crew since Katrina...which was HOW many years ago at this point in time? One by one, the young folk are taken to see the doctor (or wander off), only to mysteriously not come back. Suspicious? Well, sure, I guess.The kindly doctor, as played by Robert Patrick, which should have been a bad sign to anyone, apparently is dedicating himself mostly to research to keep his wife alive. What's wrong with his wife? Hmm, we don't know...The two orderlies are rather scummy types, and there's lots of dirty deeds and body parts strewn everywhere as they assist the doctor in his research.Of course, one young woman figures out something is NOT RIGHT, and tries to fight back & call for help, but of course, she's overpowered, and so is the sheriff's deputy that comes to call.Nearly-abandoned hospitals have rarely been so lacking in creepiness as this one is, and while this story has plenty of blood, guts, and general nastiness, it has absolutely ZERO atmosphere at all, and is pretty well "paint by the numbers" stuff. It has a lot of the makings of a decent film, but they just lie there, not doing much. Gore does not a great movie make. It needs some brains (that is, intelligence, not more strewn organs) to go along with it, and this doesn't have it. A waste. 2 out of 10.
4 out of 6 people found the following review useful: Decent slasher, but nothing special., 20 March 2009 Author: Slasher_Guy
A night of partying in town turns deadly for a group of five friends, when they get into a car accident and hit a man in the middle of the road. It turns out the man is a patient at the local hospital, as an ambulance soon arrives on the scene and takes the friends and the patient there for a medical check-up. It soon appears, however, that the staff at the hospital have more sinister plans for the friends.'Autopsy' is a decent effort at a slasher movie, but what lets the film down is most definitely the poor character development, a TV-movie feel (sometimes), plot inconsistencies and, at times, weak writing. Several of the characters, particularly the lead's boyfriend, the token Russian dude and the female friend, have barely any screen time and character development, which was a let-down. This movie definitely needed some more character development for those characters, and would have made the movie better. I also felt the worst actor of the film was Ross MaCall (Jennifer Love Hewitt's ex)...accent slip-ups, boring character and I don't think he fit in with the group of friends, as they all look a lot younger than him.There were a few plot holes, for instance: The lead girl mentioning her boyfriends' parents are on vacation in Europe, then several scenes later it's said his parents are at home waiting for them to get back. The lead girl taking a phone from the killer, then hiding in a room the next scene which has a phone in it. Psychotic killers managing to run a public hospital and get away with killing hundreds. People being alive after having all of their organs taken out/being smashed in the skull repeatedly...some of the scenes you have to suspend your disbelief and others are just general plot holes that needed fixing in the script.Onto the positives, the movie has it's moments and delivers some great gore sequences, which I was very impressed with (particarly the 'hanging organs' scene). Jessica Lowndes (90210, Molly Hartley) does a great job as the lead, and it was great seeing Jenette and Robert reunited since 'Terminator 2' and playing psychotic killers (nice cat fight with Jessica and Jenette at the end!). Michael Bowen and Robert LaSardo (Nip Tuck) did well also, and the hospital setting for the film was cool. I really liked the opening credits sequence also, and Adam Gierasch delivers a decent script and good directing, which I hope he delivers on the upcoming 'Night of The Demons' remake.'Autopsy' has a cool location and lots of great gore, as well as some decent deaths and good acting, and it entertains for what it's worth. I just wish the movie had more character development and less plot holes, as it would have been much better than what it was - decent. It's a decent effort for a slasher, and it has it's moments, but it's nothing too great. It is, however, one of the better horror-fest titles and if you are looking for a 90 minute nothing-new-but-entertains kinda slasher with lots of bloodshed...you should enjoy it!5/10
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