ryansternmd This is a blatant ripoff of "Fantastic Voyage". I can not find anything to recommend this film. If pressed, I can only say that it is better than single hand held super 8 video movies that make it to cable to feed the market for soft porn slasher flicks. This movie insults the intelligence of the viewer at every level. The science is wrong. Even a 7th grade science student could find the errors. The film is set in Germany, but they did not film it in Germany, hire any German actors or even have a dialog coach give any of the actors German accents. Every aspect of production is only a step above amateur and student films. The only attributes that improve the film are the models and digital effects that had to have been used to show a submarine navigate the blood vessels of the film's antagonist. My lingering question is why did any one make the film?

Avoura This was an interesting movie with a decent plot, but poorly made. The budget was obviously low and they spent most of it on the special effects and the ship that went inside the man. The effects were quite good, especially the white cells and the parasites in the blood.The first part of the film which sets the scenario was poorly written with corny dialog and bad acting. Seems like most of the actors were from the school of bad acting or the school of overacting. Robin Givens gave a good performance, and Lance Henriksen as Dr Gaynes was reasonable, but in the first part of the film his acting was not so good. The terrorists were badly played, as was the ANN reporter, who asked a German "you must have heard of us, we are the American News Network" -- unfortunately he had not, and nor has the audience of course. Those playing Germans were not believable, except maybe for the bald guy who worked in the lab as the one in charge.As for the science, it was lacking a bit. We can all say that shrinking people and machinery to microscopic size is not possible, but the science behind it should have been more believable in the film. For example, Dr Gaynes asks how small the ship was going to be shrunk too, but Dr Saverini was too vague in her answer. I expected an exact measurement in nanometers. Perhaps the makers did not know what a nanometer was? And it was totally unbelievable that a German terrorist (who actually turned out to be from South America) would state a distance as 50 miles. He would have said "80 kilometers". Only Americans and British people use miles.I also thought the romance between Richard Gaynes and Rachel was very contrived and not done well. The romance between the other 2 on the ship was quite good but it ended tragically, which made it a waste of time.Overall I think the makers had some good ideas but had no idea on how to make them work properly overall, and if there had been more backing financially and better acting and scriptwriting, it could have worked so much better. There was no build up of suspense at all in the first part, and no real emotion or reason to be interested in the characters until after Dr Gaynes went into the ship.Worst part of the film: near the start, when the villains are in the van and seen for the first time and they say something, that was done so badly I was starting to think the film was a comedy. Best part of the film: the attack of the white cells in t he blood.

rixrex It sounds like a great idea, remake or do a sequel or such to Fantastic Voyage, a serious one not like Innerspace (good in it's own way). This has a lot of good ideas going for it, the terrorist idea involving a miniature detonator that has to be found and plucked out of the body. I bet the treatment was actually pretty good, but it loses steam in the way it's presented, intermittent pacing, some silliness, weak exposition, missed opportunities, but on the other hand, many parts are exciting and fun to watch, pretty nice effects and some good stuff like lights on the ship (unlike FV where the inner body was somehow miraculously illuminated. Would have liked better science, there seemed to be very little here, more than 4 persons in the ship would have helped, better interplay between the ship and the outside crew, also lacking enough people around the place. Less time spent on the terrorist buildup which could have been dealt with more quickly and with some better exposition, and more time inside the body, etc. Decent, a wasted opportunity of sorts, yet worth a look.

os2user-1 I am sure Mr. Gaston Pauls will be talked about for years to come for his performance in this movie. He has the expression of a lobotomized psychiatric patient. Calling him dull is a gross underestimation of just how tedious this guy is.The rest of the cast aren't much better. This movie has the personality of a damp sponge and the appeal of a moldy sweat sock.