Here's a movie that attempts to give up in depth characters and suspense throughout. The only problem is, it has way too much character info/background and suspense! It actually has too few scenes of action and horror to keep me interested, which resulted in me having to try three times to watch this film before actually finishing it. I mean, I like to know a little something about the characters in a horror movie I'm going to watch, but I want there to be enough scenes of horror to keep it going! Scenes where things actually happen are few and far between, resulting in boredom. And boy do I hate a movie that lies to you about it's cast! It shows Franka Potente from the first (and far superior) film, on the side and back of the cover, and the movie makes you think she's the star, but she's really only in it for a few scenes. Anyway, the movie is about a young doctor who joins a secret society, only to find out it is being run by a mad doctor who is replacing people's real muscles with artificial ones. It sounds interesting, and it kind of is, if you can get through it's endless scenes of so called character development and exposition.

This movie fails pretty much. It starts with playing around with medical terms and such but then it quickly turns into a scientific version of X-Men. It copies some elements from the first movie but its still hard to connect it to the first movie if not for the anti-Hippocrates. The anti-Hippocrates in this movie annoy me the most, they are supposed to be just normal scientists who want to experiment beyond ethical boundaries, thus achieving good for the humanity. In this movie they are nothing like that, they are evil bastards who want to do evil things! Still the major plot hole is that nearly all the disciples of this Charles guy are against killing someone for the good of science, but I thought that was the whole point of anti-Hippocrates?

I was deeply disappointed after seeing this movie. The first part was really great, it was fresh, the plot was unpredictable, it simply had that special something which I was missing in Anatomie 2. It's a simple action movie with a bad cut and has nothing to offer, that you haven't seen already...

the first one was great (a common sequel-problem...?)... this time it's a different approach to tell the story: more action, which results in fast cuts and steady-cam... but also in a lack of time to explain all reused elements from the first one (good!) and to introduce them (very bad!). The main characters are too stereotyped and don't show enough plausible development... at least it isn't boring for a second but it could have been done much better...