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Subject Two
A doctor invents a resurrection formula and tests it by killing his assistant over and over and over again
Release : | 2006 |
Rating : | 5.4 |
Studio : | |
Crew : | Director, Writer, |
Cast : | Christian Oliver |
Genre : | Horror Thriller Science Fiction |
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To me, this movie is perfection.
Great Film overall
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
I'd never heard of "Subject Two" but when it turned up on Sundance Channel recently the description sounded interesting so I recorded it and checked it out. Sundance's program guide described it as a "horror" film but that's not entirely accurate. Perhaps it's a "Horror/Drama?" Either way, I was hoping for more horror and less drama. Maybe this would be considered a horror movie for people who don't watch horror movies.The story is intriguing enough: Adam Schmidt is a slacker medical student who takes a job offer sent to him via e-mail (doesn't he know that those never turn out to be good ideas?) by Doctor Vick, a mysterious scientist who lives and works in a remote mountain cabin in Colorado. Their initial meeting has shades of "Re-Animator," as the doctor fills him in on his research into life and death, then without warning, strangles Adam and injects him with his experimental rejuvenation serum. Adam eventually wakes up, of course, and he then spends the rest of the movie as Vick's guinea pig, getting killed and brought back, killed and brought back, over and over again. Of course, each revival comes with its own set of problems, both physical and emotional, for Adam.Sounds intriguing, but after the first couple of "revival" scene the novelty wears off. In between each death scene Adam and the Doctor do a lot of talking and not much else. The monotony is briefly broken when Adam encounters a deer hunter trespassing on the property who has to be dealt with (lest he bring unwanted attention to the project) but by the three quarter mark I was yawning and wishing the Doc would just put poor Adam down for good and leave him there."Subject Two" has decent performances, gorgeous wintertime Colorado scenery, and a couple of shocks, but it runs out of steam quickly. Count me out if there's ever a "Subject Three."
No kind words come to mind looking back on whatever it was I just fast-forwarded. And I just can't believe anyone would write kindly about it which was the reason I gave this flick a shot. Silly me ey?And just to counter the obvious statements in the "worth a watch" section; it being low budget doesn't give it merit by default. Sewage is sewage and a 100$ turd reeks just as much as one in the lower pricerange.But...something that is worth a watch is also worth a telling, right? so allow me to just sum up this movie for u then: (spoiler, but please be spoiled)-Guy goes to a mountain shed in the snow to undergo an experiment with a doctor, guy gets killed, guy gets revived but now his eyes look exactly like those of master Poo in Kung Fu, guy gets killed another 9 times, gets revived 9 more times and then he walks back down the mountain. Oh..and the dead guy in the snow turned out to be the real doctor.-Honestly folks:..thazzall...Now if this brilliance of a story would have had some cunning dialog or sublime wit in it, it might have been passable. But to top the cake; it had none of it. U will find the dialog between two amoeba more entertaining.Anyone rating this more than a 3 or even having the nerve to find this worth watching, has either been paid to say so or has been paid to say so.This's not even a stinker! 0/10
I love this kind of movie and this one is really good. I only gave it a 8/10, because I think, for the climax, they should have had something that would really blow your socks off. I hope they make a sequel. It was a little like THE TRUE STORY OF FRANKENSTEIN and just a little like the REANIMATOR but a fine film by itself. I may have rated it a little high because I love zombie movies but this is one of the better ones in that genre. It brings out some points and ideas about this that have not been explored in any great detail in previous zombie movies. And with recent breakthroughs in medical technology, this film is a very timely one.
They story line was very thin and a bit mixed up to say the least with an odd start and ending, I would not pay to see this movie and would even be reluctant to rent it.It made out to be a kind of modern Frankenstein yes, but if you missed say the first ten minutes, you would be at a complete loss as to what the story line was and on top of that there was no real driection or aim of the movie.Also the movie tried badly to give a sense of time loss for the subject 2, which it tried to convey be jumping between the subject being killed and then waking up.Sorry but this was just a waste of time.