Gleefully brimming with body parts and bad behavior, Pathology is a fun piece of flamboyant tastelessness.
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04/25/08
Pathology (2008)
50 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 8 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 4.5/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 18, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: The grisly and debauched film PATHOLOGY is a juiced-up medical thriller that plays like FLATLINERS with a mean streak and a broken moral compass. Writers Mark Nelvedine and Brian Taylor have created a premise allowing for CSI-like forensics along with heaps of sex and violence, truly making... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano, Lauren Lee Smith, Dan Callahan, Johnny Whitworth
Director: Marc Schoelermann
Screenwriter: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Producer: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, Skip Williamson, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Richard Wright, Gary Gilbert
Composer: Johannes Kobilke, Robert Williamson
Screenwriter: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Producer: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, Skip Williamson, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Richard Wright, Gary Gilbert
Composer: Johannes Kobilke, Robert Williamson
Reviews
1 - 16 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top Critic
Existing somewhere in a world between Flatliners, Saw and Last Tango in Paris, this oversexed, over the top, underwritten medical horror flick won’t come anywhere near the success of those films.
04/25/08
Like its characters, the pic is too clever for its own good, allowing the meticulously researched scenario to be undone by implausible behavior and gaping plot holes.
04/23/08
Top Critic
It's as if [director] Schoelermann and screenwriters Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor had more of a concept than a concrete idea.
04/21/08
A particularly nasty slice of medical-themed horror, Marc Scholermann's film is the sort of thriller in which the tenderest scene depicts an autopsy.
04/21/08
Even squeamish viewers are apt to be captivated by the tight, credible scripting; these 20-somethings talk and behave like today's irony-clad young sophisticates. And whatever your opinion of the subject matter, you can't fault the filmmaking.
04/21/08
Not exactly a great movie, but it's sick, slick, and strange enough to warrant a 90-minute look.
04/18/08
When a movie opens with the diner scene from When Harry Met Sally as performed by cadavers, and later proceeds to sex scenes involving scalpels and needles, the actual plot becomes inconsequential.
04/18/08
An inordinately sleazy medical thriller operating on the erroneous belief that the combination of hot sex and cold corpses constitutes a real turn-on.
04/18/08
Slickly made but utterly gratuitous, this wannabe-edgy thriller was an odd choice for Ventimiglia to make during his first Heroes hiatus.
04/18/08
If you are a hardcore fan of films like FLATLINERS, I guarantee that you'll dig this flick... PATHOLOGY is really a gem that doesn't deserve to be overlooked.
04/17/08
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