Flatliners

What lies beyond the grave? Our Past mistakes brought back to haunt us or make us correct them. The movie arrived Undamaged and on time.

The movie follows the plot of the original film fairly closely (The idea of death activating internal guilt which then needs resolution in order for the negative effects of guilt -- the haunting aspects of the past-- to cease).Wish the opening of the film developed a better reason for these people to want to move forward with inducing death (the opening blip of the sister's death and then 9 years later the character asking a person who recently died and was resuscitated what she experienced just didn't do it for me).From a medical stand point the movie needed to do more of its homework (too little CPR during the ACLS drills) although they were suppose to be medical students (although your MS-III year you'd never have enough freedom to just walk around without supervision, your MS-IV year, even if all of the students were doing a sub-I, they'd never just be left to their own resources). Also a fully functional hospital ward with all the necessary equipment, medications would be under lock and key in a crash cart or in the pharmacy (otherwise people could just walk out the door with epinephrine or propofol).I hoped, given the attending doing the didactics/rounds was Kiefer, that at least some reference would have been made to this having been done in the past (since he was the first one to flatline in the original and was the most reluctant to address the side effects) or to some extent that he would have played some role as mentor in educating the students on the hazards of flatlining It's like the director jumped the shark between a reboot to a sequel then back to a reboot (should have just left his cameo out totally if the intent was to not have him as a major player in the movie).The twist of giving them augmented recall was nice, The MRI scans were not very realistic (would need an EEG to follow electrical activity of the brain and a fMRI to reproduce metabolic activity, plus the fact that MR machines are loud), but do spur the imagination.Overall I rank this movie between Scrubs and House for accuracy, and higher than a B-movie for thrills and entertainment.

Best movie I have watched in years!

Must see!!! 💯💯💯

Very well produced and interesting story line. It's definitely a sci-fi but it also has some eerie parts similar to a thriller/horror. I've seen it a couple times and I would watch it again!

The only thing I enjoyed about this movie was the diversity in the cast. Nice to not have an all-white, mostly male cast. Nice callback to the original having K. Sutherland play a different part.Unfortunately, that's where the good times end. There is a distinct lack of explanation for what they're doing compared to the original. No preparation. There's a brief suggestion that this movie might be following a different endgame, going the way of Final Destination, which got me really excited. Apparently it was just to prove how deadly these visions are.The "apologies" offered for their past sins were cringeworthy and insincere, spoken solely for their own purposes. I had to stop the movie multiple times to take breaks because it was just that hard to slog through. Rather than a movie about forgiving yourself and coming to terms with your own past mistakes, we have a half-naked dramafest with poor preparation and disappointing turnout. I'd stick with the original. I wish I hadn't wasted my money on this.

I liked the original film quite a bit, but they should have never tried to re-boot it. The original had it's flaws about what med students can and can't do in a training facility, but this is so horribly inaccurate that it really ruins the movie for me. This version also just felt a bit too rushed also. All of a sudden, these 5 students are flatlining within like 10 minutes of the film, very little intro, character building, just right to it. To top it off, having Kiefer Sutherland back, great, in a role different from his first, not good, so why bother having him back. He could have done a Stan Lee Marvel type cameo as a janitor or something fun like that, but to have him back as a doctor only makes it tougher to enjoy this as a freestanding reboot rather than confused sequal. I'm glad I got it at a low price. I am not giving this 2 star review only because if the first film had not existed, and this was the only only one, I may have not expected as much as I did, but they missed the boat really on this.

This was a pretty good retelling of an older movie with some fresh faces. I liked that Keifer Sutherland made a cameo appearance in the movie as a nod to the earlier film but I certainly don't understand why they stuck that stupid wig on him. What would have been kind of cool is if they had made Keifer's character in this new movie Nelson Wright from the first movie. They really missed a chance to weave together the old and new considering Nelson didn't die in the first film. Now THAT would have been a cool nod to the older film.