Antibodies
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Wotan Wilke Möhring, Heinz Hoenig, André Hennicke, Ulrike Krumbiegel, and Hauke Diekamp

Tormented, small town German cop Michael Martens is obsessed with trying to solve the mystery of the murder of his son's girl friend. When a notorious serial killer is captured, Martens goes to Berlin in search of answers, convinced that the serial killer is behind the murder he is investigating. (Slowhand Releasing)

GENRE(S):	Crime \| Drama \| Foreign \| Horror \| Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	Christian Alvart
DIRECTED BY:	Christian Alvart
RELEASE DATE:	Theatrical: February 16, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	127 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	Germany
LANGUAGE(S):	German (with English subtitles)

Original title "Antikörper"

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LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

Antibodies is fairly riveting, thanks to Alvart's command of craft and tone. He's a director to watch.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Although Alvart lays on the biblical allegory too heavily at times, the film's pace is brisk enough to maintain our full attention. Antibodies is not so much an art house movie as a well-made, commercial thriller that happens to be in German.

Film Threat Eric Campos

Antibodie does fasten a tight squeeze on its audience, right from the get go, and even despite the long run time, just over two hours, it's a consistently tense ride.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

Films about serial killers have become so ubiquitous that they now form a subgenre of the crime movie. Even so, Antibodies, has a bracingly original take on the matter.

New York Post Kyle Smith

The chatty killer and the nervy atmosphere are both so depraved that the film, though it contains hardly any explicit violence, is like stepping into a blood Jacuzzi, and there is a biblical severity to the ending.

Variety Robert Koehler

Not content with a straight psychological police procedural, Alvart mixes in distracting -- and unconvincing --Biblical symbolism in a curious bid for weightiness.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

As is often the case when ambitious young filmmakers have murder and profit on their minds, Mr. Alvart is finally less interested in the nature of man than in the cool stuff you can do with a camera, which he tosses about the set, swooping it up and down and all around, without rhyme or reason.

The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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Erika G. gave it an8:
Even with some irritatingly obvious biblical allusions this is a suspensful and entertaining film. The lead actor is convincing as a conflicted cop between his job, his religious mores and his parental concern. The killer is more than sufficiently creepy as well as adding a well-handled plot twist.

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