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Rating: - Run Lola Run! Run for Your Life !
"One Studies; Another One Is Studied." If I am allowed to translate German tugline for this movie with poor knowledge of the language, this is what you get. And in fact "Anatomy" offers some eerie feelings you might get after hearing those words like "operation" "surgery" or "scapel" that directly attack your nerves.

Franka Potente of "Run Lola Run" fame goes back to German, as an ambitious student at a prestigeous college for doctors. But one day, during the anatomy course regularly done in the study, she finds one dead body she is familiar with. OH! "I know him!" she goes for she met the dead guy on the train on the way to the college. But things don't end here because she notices there is some strange mark on his ankle. And his cause for death is, she thinks, too unnatural while her instructor wouldn't listen to her. Is she just mistaken, thinking too much about dead bodies? Or is there some conspiracy behind the body and this seemingly usual institute?

As the first product of Deutsche Columbia Tristar, new project that one of the Hollywood's major studios set up, it is not so unusual that "Anatomy" looks greatly influenced by Hollywood pictures. You can find some European characteristics here and there, like the film's insistance on dead bodies (which are not shown very much on the acreen, though) or its dry, metalic touch of anatomy room, but overall the film has little difference from American product except its language and slightly irregular development of the story. Even the loud background music sounds familiar, compared with the perfect soundtrack of German techno-pops in "Lola."

Potente, as is expected from her dynamite performance as Lola, is perfect as the heroine of this horror thriller, and the menace you find in her Lola character is totally gone with her red hair. Instead, you will find in that place a rather ordinary girl you might find in young Julia Roberts before the time of "Pretty Woman."

Basically, the premise sounds European like "The Nightwatch" or its original as far as it theme on dead bodies or morgue goes, but the result turns out more American. If you like darker, more original thriller, you might be disappointed, but I admit I was certainly entertained, and at times scared too. This is not a masterpiece of horror, indeed, but shows some scary moments in a unique way as its title suggests. For fans of genre and Franka Potente.

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