Eye Candy #248 - "Pathology"

Pathology: This film mines the same retread ground that so many other edgy, thriller-y films have before it – a group of grad students (medical, psychology) with questionable morality play god and engage in games that are murderous/dangerous to get their respective rocks off. Look at “Flatliners”. Look at “88 Minutes”. This time around it’s training pathologists who set about killing people in inventive ways to commit the perfect crime…and of course, not get caught. Ted (Milo Ventimiglia from “Heroes”) is new to a hospital in Philadelphia. Being the odd, highly intelligent man out, he rubs the rest of the grads the wrong way. And it seems in their spare time, amongst other things, they are killing people in exotic ways so their fellow grads can figure it out. Soon Ted finds himself involved in an escalating game with a fellow grad (played by Michael Weston). Fairly torpid for a thriller, relatively low in gore, and extremely high on “and why the heck should I care about these people?” The characters, even Ted, are almost without exception utterly unlikable, self-absorbed jerks. Milo plays Ted like Jack Nicholson in “The Shining” – it takes him about 90 seconds to descend into amorality. His moral struggle last about as long as a finger snap. He’s playing the part of Ted’s scowl. John DeLancie (Q from “Star Trek”) and Alyssa Milano (who still looks incredibly hot) guest-star with a bunch of b-level, c-level actors and actresses. Not a good thriller, not a good popcorn movie. Woodchuck sez, “Skip it.”