It's those horrifying events where Ted Gray graduated from the medical school and quickly joined the elite pathology program. Now, things turn upside down, as his outstanding students call him to their seemingly lethal circle, a game in which a program is set up to find out which of them could commit the perfect murder at a record time.
Like its characters, the pic is too clever for its own good, allowing the meticulously researched scenario to be undone by implausible behavior and gaping plot holes.
Existing somewhere in a world between Flatliners, Saw and Last Tango in Paris, this oversexed, over the top, underwritten medical horror flick won't come anywhere near the success of those films.
Much like Crank, it's the guiltiest of guilty pleasures.
Boston Globe
April 21, 2008
Even squeamish viewers are apt to be captivated by the tight, credible scripting; these 20-somethings talk and behave like today's irony-clad young sophisticates. And whatever your opinion of the subject matter, you can't fault the filmmaking.
