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105 out of 154 people found the following comment useful :-
great if you don't mind a gore, 14 September 2007

Author: darinblack from United States

I just saw this movie last night as a preview/focus group in El Segundo. I thought it was interesting, a little predictable. Lots of gore during the morgue scenes, open chest cavities, brains being taken out of skulls etc. Lots of sex scenes and drug usage. A new resident joins a hospital of other residents. They play a game killing people and try to figure out how the person was killed. The kill people they feel are just "bad" people. Their egos and attitudes inflate their heads and they think they are now gods. I started to wonder if what they did to the corpses really does happen in morgues? The main character gets in too deep from the start and has to figure a way out of this murderous plot. I liked the way it ended up. Acting and effects were good. Alyssa looks hot as usual.

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81 out of 111 people found the following comment useful :-
worthwhile psychological thriller, 4 April 2008

Author: nunyabiz1973 from United States

After seeing an advanced screening, this film honestly delivered more than expected. Not being a fan of the gruesome torture-porn films so wide-spread in recent years, nor of the writers previous film (utterly ridiculous, in my opinion), I had reservations going in. Not in regards to the abilities of the cast, but as to how the concept of the film would be handled on the screen. The first 10 minutes, while well done, gave me pause as to whether the filmmakers would get beyond showing how extreme and outrageous they could be to an actually engaging story. In the end, I found the graphic and brutal nature of some of the scenes to support the development of the story and it's well drawn characters as well as the effective exploration of the darker potentials of the human psyche. My final impressions were of the solid performances of the cast and how the film was able to accomplish making the outrageous and often twisted ways of its characters seem both natural and plausible given the context of the story. I highly recommend giving this film a shot, even if it isn't a genre you'd typically see.

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49 out of 75 people found the following comment useful :-
Gory, enjoyable nonsense!, 11 April 2008

Author: kevin_crighton (kevincrighton@btinternet.com) from Scotland

When brilliant Doctor Ted Grey gets a job working in a University Pathology lab, he falls in with a group of young brilliant doctors led by Doctor Jake Gallo. Grey discovers that the others are playing a game where one doctor kills a person and the others have to work out how it was done. As Grey gets caught up in this, can he find a way out, or is he in too deep....

Pathology is written by Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor. They wrote the insane and fun action movie CRANK. This movie while not as funny as Crank is still insane! The plot is quite daft, and it has to be said full of plot-holes. This could be the result of scenes being cut from the movie, but this didn't bother me at all.

Simply put, this movie was fun.

The cast led by Milo Ventimiglia as Grey and Michael Weston as Gallo are all good. The direction by Marc Schoelermann keeps things moving at a brisk pace. As befits a movie about Pathology doctors, it is quite gory and bloody, but it is never over the top.

Although not a movie that will win many awards, for it's running time, it is very enjoyable and worth watching if you don't take it seriously. One thing though... it may put you off doctors for life!!

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45 out of 69 people found the following comment useful :-
A lot of potential but a bit of a yawn really, 17 April 2008

Author: Superbeasto from United Kingdom

Now this looks great on paper. The core idea revolves around a group of pathology interns playing murderous games after dark. Commit the smartest murder you can, submit it to the group who then have to work out how you did it. There's a quality idea in there and plenty of opportunity for a gritty and intelligent thriller exploring the darker side of our naturally murderous psyches. It's pretty obvious that's not what the writers of "Crank" are going to give you though.

In practise it all feels a tad eighties, like a cross between "Flatliners" and "The Lost Boys", and when the edgy bad boy pathologists are roaming the halls it's like the brat pack never went away. However, where Keifer Sutherland's pack of vampires were an understandably seductive prospect, it's impossible to believe that all it would take was some gentle bullying and a hint of potential lesbian action to turn Milo Ventimiglia's posh grade A super student into a murderous crack addict.

Still, suspend your disbelief and that's forgive-able. There is some good fun here, particularly in the performances which are all pretty decent, and things (ahem) perk up whenever Alyssa Milano is on screen. The main problem is how hard the movie tries to be adult, and the constant swearing, rutting and drug use has a whiff of "Hollyoaks In The City" desperation about it. It's such a constant barrage that it becomes, well, a bit dull unfortunately. Shame, there's a good movie in there somewhere and with a defter touch and a bit more maturity this could have been pretty special.

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34 out of 53 people found the following comment useful :-
Impressed and surprised... PATHOLOGIZED!, 20 April 2008

Author: mickeyshamrock from United States

Hi friends - I'm going to be honest here, PATHOLOGY really impressed and surprised me. On the surface PATHOLOGY seems like a fun, silly, popcorn movie (from the writers of CRANK) in the vein of FLATLINERS or ANATOMY – however, excellent direction, great photography, and solid performances really elevate this little horror/thriller and make it so much better than I (and I'm assume you) could expect. It's a shame that MGM hung this movie out to dry in the theaters but I'm guessing it's because they didn't know how to market it. You see: PATHOLOGY is kind of immoral, mean spirited, filled with sex, and features some great medical based gore – my (and I'm assuming your) kind of movie – but certainly not an easy sell. I guess at it's core PATHOLOGY is a fun, silly, popcorn movie but it's executed so well that it rises above the rest of the trash in the theater right now (4.20.08). So check this movie out – I think you (and you) will like it.

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35 out of 59 people found the following comment useful :-
Great, sick fun!, 17 April 2008

Author: Todd Spencer from UK

Me and my friends watched the movie last night and I must say, we had a lot of fun.I'm not a big fan of "Crank" so I was a bit hesitant at first. It's not "Schndler's List" and it never tries to be. It's very dark and nihilistic but it never goes over the top.

It's fun, sick and twisted entertainment and if you're more into those kind of movies then you'll enjoy it a lot. If your favorite movie is "Atonemnet", I recommend to skip it.

I thought the performances - especially by Michael Weston - were great, it looked stylish and had an overall creepy atmosphere. Good special effects and the ending was really good too.

Overall: Really great movie.

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30 out of 51 people found the following comment useful :-
Let's dig in....., 22 April 2008

Author: gargamel from United States

This is interesting. I lower budget gorefest that I expected to love because it was so cheesy and instead end up liking because it is actually good! I love B rate cheese fest horror movies, and thought this would be another.... but.

This story is well written and not too far out of the realm of possibility. Sure at some point hospital security or what not would have noticed bodies being moved into an empty wing and incinerated yada yada yada. However, it is believable that some forensic doctors might go crazy and do some of the things in the movie.. especially with all the drugs/alcohol these doctors were consuming.

The acting is overall pretty good. The only performance that was kind of flat for me was the professor that mentors these students. The doctors themselves all did a fine job and were really believable.

Was there too much gore and gratuitous sex as others have mentioned?? Let's put it this way, there was enough gore, but not too much. Not for the squeamish, but not over the top either. And I only remember 3 sex scenes, one of which had no nudity whatsoever and the other 2 had quick flashes of breasts only. These scenes were instrumental to the plot and not there just to show nudity. There are a couple of scenes of dead women with their breasts exposed but what do you expect in a morgue? And it's nothing more than you would see on National Geographic or Discovery Channel.

Overall I give this movie props.... surprisingly. Now for the Gargamel Scale : 1 for nudity, 1 for story, 1 for acting, there were no car chases.. so 0 there, and no gunfire/explosions, but there was lots of killing... so I'll give a 0.5 there. That's 3.5 total for you non-math majors. That equates to a 7 on the IMDb 10 point scale.

This movie season is finally starting to get better!

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24 out of 40 people found the following comment useful :-
Tits, Blood and Plot Twists, 17 April 2008

Author: asherz-3 from United Kingdom

I went to see this movie without any prior expectations (I hadn't seen the trailer).

After a slow start the plot progressed steadily and managed to hold my attention despite Milo Ventimiglia's "smell the fart" acting. The copious amounts of gore seem excessive in the beginning, but generally add to the overall "shock factor" of the movie. Along with some in your face, sometimes slightly disturbing, sex scenes, this film is definitely NOT FOR THE LIGHTHEARTED.

Without giving too much away, this movie relies upon a classic mentor/apprentice rivalry. Despite being involved in sick extra curricular activities, main character Ted Grey manages to hold the viewer's empathy. The climatic ending of the film leaves you feeling satisfied yet a little sick in the stomach.

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WARNING: This movie may cause you to throw beer cans at your telly, 6 August 2008

Author: johnnycandle from Cork

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I like tasteless movies, sexy movies, twisted horror movies and I also liked Crank, which was penned by the writers of Pathology. So, I was looking forward to this one.

If you imagine the Lost Boys, crossed with CSI, Saw, throw in some Cronebourg type sex and that should give you some idea of the concept behind Pathology. Sound good doesn't it? Now imagine a team of brilliant young doctors who are also serial thrill-killers who go into a psycho-sexual frenzy when performing post mortems on their colleagues victims. Not terribly plausible you may think.

Now can you imagine an even more brilliant young doctor joining the hospital, he's arrogant, he's the top guy from Harvard, he's loaded, and within minutes he's a serial thrill-killer who goes into a psycho-sexual frenzy when performing post mortems on his colleagues victims. Having trouble? Incredibly, it's even more ridiculous than it sounds. But completely unbelievable is not completely unforgivable.

My real moan is that no one is likable, and there is clearly no attempt to make anyone remotely sympathetic. So the reasoning behind purpose this can only be for the gore and the kinky sex. This would make it an exploitation movie, which I normally love.

So what's the problem? Well, it's the "level of unlike-ability". Everyone is so detestable, that it goes beyond the type of movie where you're waiting patiently for characters to be get naked or be bumped off. Here they take you deep into the realm of the really bloody irritating. Everything about them makes you hate them so much that their faces become more and more punchable as the minutes crawl by. Their witless babbling and pseudo-philosophy grates on you so much that their frenzied pervy couplings just make you glad they've shut up for a minute.

Borders on unwatchable.

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11 out of 18 people found the following comment useful :-
annoying, 29 June 2008

Author: Elynitthria from Germany

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OK, this is one of the really bad movies. It starts like an amateur porn with the inevitable porn sentence: girl to boy: "f*ck me please". And the quality is not getting much higher. Milo f*cks around, drugs around and kills and protects killers and puts the life of his fiancé on risk and when she gives him the chance to make a change, he lies to her and exploits her faith into him - thats all OK, it's Milo, it's the good guy, he can do all of this because he is a doctor. And that is what really annoys me: the ideology of the movie. The story is not realistic and according to it the police of New York must be blind and stupid because the crimes are so evident, that a 5 years old kid would find out who the murderers are after 1 day maximum. But who cares, lots of b-movies are stupid but enjoyable. Not this one. The most unpleasant slimy people are the elite in medicine and life and dead of other people is just a game. Being responsible must be the contrary of desirable. Mix it up with gore, gore is fashionable. All the pictures reminded me to "CSI New York", the pictures in the pathology as well as the view on the city, a show that bores me, but trust me, it is much better than this movie. Mix it with sex, sex sells. You have nothing to say, put a puppet of a nude Alyssa Milano in,and the guys will watch it. The cheap trick to get money for a horror movie at the level of an amateur porn. Very disappointing.

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