Errors of the Human Body (3 Stars)

This is a film with a reasonable premise, even though it isn't original. Professor Geoff Burton is hired by a genetic research lab in Dresden. He doesn't know much about what he'll be doing before he arrives, but when he finds out he's amazed. Rebekka Fiedler, one of his former students, has developed something she calls the Easter Gene. When injected into an axolotl it grows back a severed tail within hours. It was Rebekka who suggested to her boss that Geoff should be hired. She thinks that his expertise could help her to adapt the gene to work in mammals, starting with mice.

Unknown to Rebekka, another scientist in the laboratory, Jarek Novak, has been stealing her research vials and using them for his own experiments on mice. The problem with stealing is that you don't know what you're stealing. Geoff discovers the theft and takes a mouse with him. It scratches him, infecting him with a deadly new virus.

The problem with the film is the painfully slow pacing. I had the feeling that it never got going. Whenever there was the slightest bit of action it was interrupted by a flashback or a prolonged conversation. When the film ended I felt dissatisfied, as if nothing had happened.

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