This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

This 2003 movie is the sequel to the original from 3 years earlier and as the first film is one of Germany's most known films abroad, this is probably one of Germany's most known sequels abroad. The writer and director is Austrian Stefan Ruzowitzky again, later an Academy Award winner in the Foreign Language category. But there are changes too. First of all, the lead actor is Barnaby Metschurat this time and he did not appear in the first film. Franka Potente returns too, but only has a supporting role this time. Also this film does not have that many horror aspects as the first, such as severed fingers or stuffed humans. It's really more of a psychological crime movie.However, I have to say that I was not impressed at all by Metschurat. He looks like a young Ludwig Trepte to me and has equally little dramatic range. There is a reason why almost all the supporting players in this movie have bigger careers in 2015 than him. This includes Herbert Knaup, Frank Giering (no bigger career obviously, but more known), August Diehl, Heike Makatsch, the Möhring brothers, Martin Brammbach (a personal favorite) and especially Hanno Kofler, who plays the protagonists wheelchair-bound brother in here and is really a rising star right now. Another difference between this film and the original is that in there the real villain was not the powerful greedy old man, but his young assistants. Here, the number one villain is easily Herbert Knaup (and Makatsch to a smaller extent) and he proves once again that he is a very talented actor. He carries this film from start to finish, especially in those moments when Metschurat's shortcomings become painfully clear. Knaup and Potente already played in "Lola rennt" together and it brought him a German Film Award win.The runtime is fairly identical with the first film, only slightly longer, but still under the 40-minute mark. All in all, I would say this is on par with the original. Both are decent thrillers, but there really is no greatness attached to any of them. Sadly this one here has the far worse lead performance, but the cast as a whole is better this time. So it stays basically the same. Recommended for people who enjoy thrillers or are just curious in general about German cinema.

The Anti-Hippocratic Society is back and they are continuing to experiment on human test subjects. The problem is that their concern isn't so much for any patients as it is for notoriety. To conceal their experiments, "Professor Charles Muller-LaRouse" (Herbert Knaup) has his young proteges experiment on themselves. Again and again. And when they are no longer useful he disposes of them. It is at this time that a young intern named "Jo Hauser" (Barnaby Metschurat) joins the medical center. Because his younger brother "Willi Hauser" (Hanno Koffler) suffers from a debilitating neurological disease he becomes very interested in their research. But he joins not realizing the full facts and the dangers involved. At any rate, rather than give away any of the mysteries or ruin the suspense I will just say that this movie progresses in a logical and dark manner. Good performances were done by all but I especially liked the aforementioned Barnaby Metshurat along with Rosie Alvarez ("Lee") and Heike Makatsch ("Viktoria") as the good and bad female love interests respectfully. All things said and done, this is not a bad sequel and I believe if you liked the first movie then you will probably like this one as well.

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.

Enjoyed viewing this German film and the very strange story about a young man who is studying to become a doctor and decides to get some intern work with poor people who are not able to afford medical services. This doctor hits it lucky and meets some very important doctors who are very famous and is accepted into their hospital. After being in the hospital for a brief period of time, he meets a young female doctor who asks him to strip naked and even grabs his private parts for a sex experiment. As the film progresses, there are very weird experiments performed and plenty of drugs are being used constantly through out this hospital. Some parts of the hospital are nothing but Butcher Shops with plenty of blood and gore, plus plenty of cuts being performed on human bodies. The only female in the picture is very hot to trot, but is very ugly and old.