Pathology

Prior to its last 20 minutes, Pathology is nothing but a laughably bad exercise in sadism. Everything prior to the film's final moments is pure trash, with very little to save it, other than the hotness of Milo Ventimiglia's body (which is on display in the film's several gratuitous scenes that mix sex with blood and guts) and some horrible dialogue that has the benefit of at least being amusing.

Some could definitely call Pathology a so-bad-it's-good film, and while I wouldn't go that far, I have to admit the final 20 minutes make me give this a slightly higher rating than I normally would. Certain things happen that I didn't see coming, including certain people getting disposed of really quickly and drastically (this is done to allow for the final confrontation to take place between our hero and one sole villain). Also, a character dies that I didn't expect to see getting killed, and this leads to a nice little scene in which the protagonist performs an autopsy on this person, and during this scene, the same score that played during the final minutes of Babel plays, and it's effective (the DVD features an extended scene of it). However, the VERY last scene of the film is decidedly ludicrous.

Many will call Pathology a sick, sadistic film. I can't disagree with that, but I can't fully condemn it for that, simply because there ARE other movies out there that critics WOULD call "sick and sadistic" and I've actually enjoyed them. Still, Pathology is mostly inane, it suffers from poor performances, and it isn't technically impressive in any sense.

4/10