Flatliners is a remake of the '90s film about a group of medical students who kill and resuscitate each other to get an idea of the afterlife.
Wow. . . This film is terrible. It could have been fun, it really could have been fun.
First of all, it's a waste of talent. You have a talented director, a writer who wrote one of the best sci-fi films of this decade, Ellen Page, Kiersey Clemons and Diego Luna in the cast. On paper, that should result in a good film. So what happened.
This is a good premise. Everyone wants to know what happens when you die. It's one of the biggest mysteries surrounding life. Yet they took this premise and made it boring and generic. Instead of being thought provoking in its exploration of the afterlife, it turns into a haunting film. And not a psychological haunting. There are parts where if you think about it from the audience's perspective, it has to be ghosts haunting them.
The cast are completely wasted. There are some really good actors in the film, but the dialogue they are given is very clunky and unbelievable. The character development is paper thin, and there are several interesting directions it could go in that it completely ignores in favour of jump scares. There are several jump scares which do not affect the characters or their situation, and are there to get a jolt from the audience. These are the laziest forms of scaring audiences in horror. At least gross out gore requires creativity (which I refuse to watch), these dumb jump scares just need a loud noise after 10 seconds of silence.
And I want to ask: Why is Kiefer Sutherland in this film. He isn't playing the same character from the original as he has a different name, and his inclusion in the film isn't needed. All he does is give the occasional lecture to the most attractive group of medical students ever.
In short: Do not resuscitate.
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