Review: "Unrest"
If we've learned anything from TV's "CSI", it's that Marg Helgenberger is really desperate to be acclaimed as a super-sexy beauty. And also that carving into corpses is a lot of fun. If we learn anything from THIS movie, it's that slicing up cadavers is NOT, in fact, such a laugh riot and generally involves far fewer special effects.
Corri English plays a noob at a medical school who has well mastered the art of keeping her lips ever glossy but finds hacking into deceased human bodies and (separately) explaining her agnostic creed in an attempt to seem deep and mysterious somewhat challenging. Far easier for her is shucking out of her clothes at every random opportunity, which raises the film's score considerably. Ms. English excels at exuding a certain nubile and perky naughtiness, but does less well in convincing us of her spiritual turmoil. This is forgiven in direct proportion to the frequency with which she whips off her top.
Her three fellow body-dicers are comprised of interchangeable and buff young alpha males that look exactly alike, except one has some wispy facial hair. The quartet of students have the bad luck in their gross anatomy class to be assigned a cursed carcass that is seeking its unholy vengeance from beyond the veil of death itself, as so often happens. Why is Lara Flynn Boyle's dessicated stiff so angry? How can the students track down the clues to this mystery when Google proves SINGULARLY POWERLESS? When will anyone at the hospital evince a bit of concern over the mounting toll of slaughter and the rivers of blood? And why does their professor look like a septuagenarian chimpanzee?
The movie really does succeed in creating at least scattered moments of creepy dread, and the cadaver lab setting is quite ingenious, especially the bit with the body tank. (In these respects it is far superior to the vaguely related Ewan McGregor thriller "Nightwatch", which was set in a morgue.) The cast generally acquits itself well, but the plot fails at a couple of points, most notably in a scene where the writer had some lazy failure of the imagination and basically just magically provides the heroes with all of the answers they need in an extremely improbable fashion. Also, he seems convinced that the ancient Aztecs where running rampant throughout Brazil. I can only decry the deficiencies of the modern education system.
Spatially displaced Aztecs notwithstanding, this is a very solid effort which is better than it had to be. Ms. English is definitely welcome to undertake another genre turn in the future, provided the role calls for her to disrobe just as frequently.
Corri English plays a noob at a medical school who has well mastered the art of keeping her lips ever glossy but finds hacking into deceased human bodies and (separately) explaining her agnostic creed in an attempt to seem deep and mysterious somewhat challenging. Far easier for her is shucking out of her clothes at every random opportunity, which raises the film's score considerably. Ms. English excels at exuding a certain nubile and perky naughtiness, but does less well in convincing us of her spiritual turmoil. This is forgiven in direct proportion to the frequency with which she whips off her top.
Her three fellow body-dicers are comprised of interchangeable and buff young alpha males that look exactly alike, except one has some wispy facial hair. The quartet of students have the bad luck in their gross anatomy class to be assigned a cursed carcass that is seeking its unholy vengeance from beyond the veil of death itself, as so often happens. Why is Lara Flynn Boyle's dessicated stiff so angry? How can the students track down the clues to this mystery when Google proves SINGULARLY POWERLESS? When will anyone at the hospital evince a bit of concern over the mounting toll of slaughter and the rivers of blood? And why does their professor look like a septuagenarian chimpanzee?
The movie really does succeed in creating at least scattered moments of creepy dread, and the cadaver lab setting is quite ingenious, especially the bit with the body tank. (In these respects it is far superior to the vaguely related Ewan McGregor thriller "Nightwatch", which was set in a morgue.) The cast generally acquits itself well, but the plot fails at a couple of points, most notably in a scene where the writer had some lazy failure of the imagination and basically just magically provides the heroes with all of the answers they need in an extremely improbable fashion. Also, he seems convinced that the ancient Aztecs where running rampant throughout Brazil. I can only decry the deficiencies of the modern education system.
Spatially displaced Aztecs notwithstanding, this is a very solid effort which is better than it had to be. Ms. English is definitely welcome to undertake another genre turn in the future, provided the role calls for her to disrobe just as frequently.
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