Metacritic Film

Anatomy 2

Starring Barnaby Metschurat, Herbert Knaup, Heike Makatsch, Roman Knizka, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Frank Giering, Hanno Koffler, and Felix Kramer

MPAA RATING: R for strong violence, language, some sexuality and drug use

Columbia TriStar
Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller
101 minutes | Color
Germany
Released In Theaters August 13, 2004

In the research department of Berlin's most prestigious hospital, a centuries-old secret society is once again operating outside the rules of medical science -- and the laws of nature. (Sony)

WRITTEN BY
Stefan Ruzowitzky

DIRECTED BY
Stefan Ruzowitzky

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

46 / 100

Critic Reviews

70 Los Angeles Times
Suspenseful entertainment -- but it's also a suitably chilling cautionary tale.
50 Variety
A no-holds-barred, thoroughly generic follow-up to the medical horror-chiller that wowed German wickets in 2000.
50 LA Weekly
German filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky sticks to the formula that made his 2000 thriller “Anatomie” a German hit, offering up a who’s who of young German stars and plunging them into hot-and-cold color schemes, freewheeling camera work and diabolical master-race conspiracies. If Ruzowitzky were as good a storyteller as he is a stylist, he’d have something.
40 The Hollywood Reporter
Where the first film was something of a teen horror film, the follow-up, again from writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky, is more of an unintentional comedy.
40 TV Guide Robert Pardi
Ruzowitzky concentrates on delivering on sporadic scares at the expense of figuring out how to make individual scenes coalesce into a coherent chiller about medical megalomania.

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