I heard a lot about this German movie, but since I tend to be majorly disappointed by my countries movie efforts I skipped it. After the directors recent movie "Case 39" which I really liked although a lot of it was obviously ripped off from recent movies I though I'd also give "Antikörper" a try. But wow.... the movie has the look and feel of a ordinary German TV production and the general problem many German productions... it copies Hollywood styles in a redundant fashion and spices it up with inferior acting and ordinary pictures.
The basic plot of "Antikörper" is such an incredibly blunt rip-off from what you at first parallel to "Silence of the lambs" but you can smell the ending after about 20 Minutes and all that is a plain and dumb "Seven" rip-off, which (fasten your seat belts" even dares changing it to a happy end.
You get the smart serial killer, the insecure cop and those interrogation sequences Hopkins made so famous. I guess they know how flat out plagiarized their movie is, so they even includes some smug jokes about "Silence of the lambs". The interrogation sequence (like many other scenes) is edited choppy and uneven. The movie looks as German as it gets and then even switches to unnecessary and wiggly helicopter-scenes like in "Silence...". Ridiculous. The acting of the cops son is bad and hints are dropped in so obviously that you know whats coming up as soon as you see red squares in this movie and the other red herrings get really boring.
A lot of the dialog is painfully uneven, the tough cop and everything around him is as cheap as it gets. The script is a complete rip-off and even the cheesy "twist" in the end which refers back to the regular religious comments felt like I saw the ending in another movie... at least they stole from a third one here. Anyway, it feels like someone just edited in a scene to show off that they can do some decent CGI after a lot before looked fake.
I don't get why this movie was so well received. I think its really lame and can't understand why someone would plagiarize such famous movies with such an inferior clone. I have to admit that if you look close the later movies of Alvart suffer an equal lack of core inspiration but neither the disappointing and disjointed Pandorum nor "Case 39" the hundredth "Evil Children Movie" alone in the last year come near the flat-out plagiarism of "Antikörper".
The basic plot of "Antikörper" is such an incredibly blunt rip-off from what you at first parallel to "Silence of the lambs" but you can smell the ending after about 20 Minutes and all that is a plain and dumb "Seven" rip-off, which (fasten your seat belts" even dares changing it to a happy end.
You get the smart serial killer, the insecure cop and those interrogation sequences Hopkins made so famous. I guess they know how flat out plagiarized their movie is, so they even includes some smug jokes about "Silence of the lambs". The interrogation sequence (like many other scenes) is edited choppy and uneven. The movie looks as German as it gets and then even switches to unnecessary and wiggly helicopter-scenes like in "Silence...". Ridiculous. The acting of the cops son is bad and hints are dropped in so obviously that you know whats coming up as soon as you see red squares in this movie and the other red herrings get really boring.
A lot of the dialog is painfully uneven, the tough cop and everything around him is as cheap as it gets. The script is a complete rip-off and even the cheesy "twist" in the end which refers back to the regular religious comments felt like I saw the ending in another movie... at least they stole from a third one here. Anyway, it feels like someone just edited in a scene to show off that they can do some decent CGI after a lot before looked fake.
I don't get why this movie was so well received. I think its really lame and can't understand why someone would plagiarize such famous movies with such an inferior clone. I have to admit that if you look close the later movies of Alvart suffer an equal lack of core inspiration but neither the disappointing and disjointed Pandorum nor "Case 39" the hundredth "Evil Children Movie" alone in the last year come near the flat-out plagiarism of "Antikörper".