Catnip Thieves sent in this look at PATHOLOGY, which opens right around now in the UK...and should hit limited release next week in the States.
This is written by Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine, the guys who wrote CRANK and the forthcoming CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE. John de Lancie (Q from the various STAR TREK series) is in it, as is Alyssa Milano (CLICK HERE for your cheese cake fix of the day).
Here's a trailer for the film:
Here's Catnip Thieves with thoughts on the movie...
Hey AICN Gang,
Thought I'd drop you a quick(ish) review of MGM's new thriller PATHOLOGY, which opened here in the UK today and hits limited release on your shores next weekend.
The trailers for the movie proudly boasted "From the makers of Crank" - which automatically alerted my multiplex boner as a suggestion this might be another gleefully insane B-movie riot. It took roughly twenty minutes of screen time to extinguish that particular fire, as it became apparent that Pathology may boast that flick's same writers, but none of the fun that came with watching Jason Statham pretend he's living in Grand Theft Auto: Fuck Amy Smart In Public.
Milo Ventimigla proves once again why he's the weakest link in Heroes, but at least here his acting range expands from simply "concerned" to include "mildly irritated" and "stoned" as well. He plays a hot-shot medical student who gets involved in a rather unpleasant game of guess-how-I-killed-this-poor-schmuck with his peers, led by Michael Weston. No, I've never heard of him either - although he bares more than a passing resemblance to Charlie from It's Always Sunny... Just not as good.
Soon enough, Peter Petrelli is huffing crystal and getting caught up in all kinds of shenanigans, all of which happen in such a badly-edited fashion that it emits the image of The Lost Boys getting jackhammered by a horny CSI episode. Of course, his conscience kicks in when his fiance Alyssa Milano (who gets naked - sort of) moves in with him. The Discount Superman finds his happy existence threatened by his former buddies, and decides to put a stop to their psychotic misadventures.
Sure, it's a fairly nice idea - in principle. In execution, it's a complete mess. Scenes tend to crash into one another with little rhyme or reason, and these would-be serial killers muster the same amount of menace as your nearest Maths Club. Things aren't helped by a piss-cordial attempt to paper over the shitty script with unconvincingly babbled medical jargon, which is mumbled in a fashion that suggests it's desperate to shy away from authenticity.
Little boys who get their rocks off to the Saw films and their ilk might get a kick out of the grue on display, but even that is fairly tame by the (ever declining) standard of recent "horror" flicks. Lauren Lee Smith plays Not Charlie From It's Always Sunny's girlfriend, and she's certainly easy on the eye - especially in her various state of undress - but that's really all Pathology has to recommended it. As a thriller it's thrill-less; as a horror it's scare-less. And as a movie, it's ultimately pointless. Avoid.
