Body Parts (Review)

body_partsTransplants with unexpected consequences on film rarely go well; Heart Condition, Idle Hands and assorted schlock like Re-Animator and Franken-Hooker have proven that time and time again.

Body Parts assumes that even the less influential body parts, legs, arms and such, can drive innocent citizens to perform bizarre acts.

Bill is a psychiatrist and family man. With hardened convicts as patients, Bill just wants to reach one guy and change him for the better.

But when a car crash nearly kills him and results in his needing a revolutionary arm transplant Bill gains a whole new perspective on life – although he isn’t sure that it is entirely his…

When Bill’s arm starts to have a *cough* ‘mind’ of its own, he gets to investigating and finds that his new grabber was once the property of a ruthless killer. More disturbing is the news that Bill wasn’t the only recipient of the deceased murderer’s appendages.

As time goes on and the arm exerts more influence Bill reaches out – figuratively – to the other donees, only to be rebuffed by guys happy with their new toys.

  • Will this honeymoon period turn to buyer’s remorse?
  • Will Bill and his new friends need to overcome the nefarious influence of his lethal limbs?
  • Will any of this prove as funny or interesting as when Homer took Snake’s ‘killer hair’ and found it to be just that on The Simpsons?

Your answers are Yes, Yes and No, not at all.

What doesn’t help the film is that it tries to play a stupid premise straight, hoping that just maybe we’ll be fooled into thinking it is smart. No dice. Scenes like the one where a man in one car handcuffs himself to a man in a separate car before driving off, dragging the handcuffed man – and the car he is a passenger in- with him. No don’t think about how the second man’s arm didn’t get ripped off, or how the second car new when to accelerate or where to go. Those thoughts are superfluous. As is this film, a tattered relic of a time when a bad idea and some shoddy special effects were enough to green light a film project.

Final Rating – 5.5 / 10. Body Parts is a lot of things, but it is clearly lacking a brain.

About OGR

While I try to throw a joke or two into proceedings when I can all of the opinions presented in my reviews are genuine. I don't expect that all will agree with my thoughts at all times nor would it be any fun if you did, so don't be shy in telling me where you think I went wrong... and hopefully if you think I got it right for once. Don't be shy, half the fun is in the conversation after the movie.
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