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Flatliners

2017

Niels Arden Oplev

Elliot Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, Kiersey Clemons ...

4.4

4,039

Sci-Fi. Thriller Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near-death experience - giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.

	Media	Author	Review
		Andrew Barker Variety	"[It] offers no reason for reanimating this long-expired property (...) 'Flatliners' never sinks all the way into outright fiasco, and there’s enough talent (...) to keep things on the right side of basic competence"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"As daffy as the original and a lot less fresh (...) Instead of improving on the original's visualization of the liminal state between life and death (...) [it] turns the conceit into just another excuse for rote haunting"
		Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"'Flatliners' 2017 is the same dumb movie as 'Flatliners' 1990, minus most of the surface charisma."
		John Nugent Empire	"If you have ever seen a horror movie, you will know exactly what to expect (...) Starts strong, finishes dull. The original 'Flatliners' should have had a 'Do Not Resuscitate' order attached to it."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Artless and agonizingly boring (...) Light on scares and light on substance (...) [It] provides a sad case study in how boring our bad movies have become"
		Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"It's not a terrible film, and neither was the original. They're both frustratingly not terrible (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"This 'Flatliners' is in fact a new definition of 'meh'."
		Allan Hunter Screendaily	"Rarely feels the need to sweat over credibility or make the characters sympathetic (...) The film refuses to catch fire and just grows sillier and more contrived as it unfolds"

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