Review of Body Parts

Body Parts (1991)
2/10
The worst third act in the history of schlock cinema.
2 January 1999
Where does evil lay? This is the question posed by psychologist Jeff Fahey after he receives a limb transplant from a convict that they have vivisected to replace his own missing arm. The arm starts to have a mind of it's own. He meets two other limb recipients from the same guy (one got the other arms and the other got both legs). Then somebody whacks the other two guys, severing the donated limbs. At this point, I'm thinking, hey neat movie, somebody we have never seen before will show up and tell Fahey that he's going to kill him and take the arm (I'm figuring the limb collection to basically just be metaphoric). When Fahey asks who they heck this guy is, he rips open his shirt, showing the telltale scars of a heart transplant. Where does evil lay? Evil lays in the heart. I'm on top of the world, mentally congratulating the writer for being so darned clever. Boy, was I sorely mistaken. Some guy showed-up alright, in a neck brace. It seems the doctor that did the amputations couldn't resist sewing the convict donors head on another body. This doofus is running around collecting limbs I guess because he wants to have them sewn on his new body. The scene where this chump is carrying three of the severed limbs out of a burning car is ludicrous. I couldn't stop laughing. The bar fight scene looks like it belongs in one of the Bionic Showdown movies as the limbs seem to impart some sort of super-fighting techniques to their new owners. This movie would only be fit for fodder for MST3K.
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