Flatliners (2017)
Five medical students, hoping to understand the mystery of what lies beyond life, embark on a dangerous experiment. When their hearts are stopped for a short period of time, they have a near-death experience…
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Lack of good storyline.
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
I am old enough to remember the original and so maybe because of that this version seems like a poor relation. The characters are less interesting and Kiersey Clemons acting is terrible. It could have been so much better. There is no suspense and because of that no scares either.
Joel Schumacher's overly stylish med students-kill-and-resurrect-themselves-for-kicks thriller was one of the more original films of 1990. Nobody was desperate for a remake, but with Ellen Page and original star Kiefer Sutherland on board, the going looked good. Alas, the result looks like a straight-to-DVD thriller with Page, Sutherland and a barely understandable Diego Luna heading a no-name cast. Once more eclectic med students decide to endure short-term death for the sake of hyper intelligence: the latter aspect a bit like Limitless. Naturally there's a price as demons from their past come back to haunt them. It starts off well. But once the dream turns into a nightmare, it looks like every thriller from the past 30 years. Flashes of The Ring and Final Destination will leave you rolling your eyes. Director Niels Arden Oplev did a great job with the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but here he's still sold short with a humdrum script. Flatline it does. 5/10
Could have been a good remake. TERRIBLE ACTING! Except Ellen Page. She was good. The girl playing Sophia was especially horrible. The writing was also really stupid, so I guess the actors didn't have much to work with. This could ha r been an awesome remake but they failed at it.
True to form the trailer for the movie enticed me into watching it. I very rarely write reviews unless I am sincerely demoralized, and now here I am. The plot line revolves around thinly veiled "traumas" for each character that range from very real saddening losses to very poor excuses for inconvenience. There's no plot, really, no character development worth mentioning, and the acting throughout is rather mediocre. Don't do it.