Antibodies Reviews
| Original Score: 2/6 | Feb 17, 2007
Antibodies brings together a philosophically minded serial killer, a devoutly religious cop and a cynical filmmaker clearly itching to go Hollywood.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 16, 2007
A German thriller that isn't shy about ripping off The Silence of the Lambs.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 16, 2007
The film's pace is brisk enough to maintain our full attention. Antibodies is not so much an art house movie as a well-made, commercial thriller that happens to be in German.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 15, 2007
Instead of reinventing the procedural mechanics of the serial-killer drama, filmmaker Christian Alvert adds to its current state of retardation with desperate atmospherics and a cheap disquisition on sex and religion.
Full Review | Feb 15, 2007
Alvart adorns everything in portentous biblical trappings but is more interested in sleek visuals and rug-pulling gimmicks than his protagonist's (histrionically handled) moral conflict.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 15, 2007
A tangible sense of evil lingers over this German serial killer shocker, but the introduction of religious symbolism tips the action into self-conscious melodrama.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006
Like Hannibal Lecter with dentures, Antibodies lacks bite but still disturbs.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2006
It's a frightening, cleverly scripted picture that has much sport with the supposed contrast between the fresh innocence of countryside and the inherent corruption of the city.
| Nov 18, 2006
Steeped in religion yet shot through with moral ambiguity, this disturbing psychological thriller breathes new life into the moribund serial killer movie.
| Nov 16, 2006
Not content with a straight psychological police procedural, Alvart mixes in distracting -- and unconvincing --Biblical symbolism in a curious bid for weightiness.
Full Review | Nov 21, 2005
Alvart does put the viewer through a gripping experience with a final twist few will see coming.
Full Review | Nov 11, 2005