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Flatliners

1990

Joel Schumacher

Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin ...

6.0

10,040

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Mystery. Drama Hot-shot medical students embark on a series of daring experiments to get a peek at the face of death. Stopping their hearts until the vital signs register as flat lines, they then revive the subject. The group doesn't count on bringing anything back from their near-death experiences, but each one does.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The audacity of this experiment is terrifying and intriguing, and let's face it: It's a great idea for a movie (...) An original, intelligent thriller, well-directed by Joel Schumacher (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The film is about as exciting as staring at a lava lamp for two hours (...) Brain death is very much in evidence here, though perhaps not in quite the way the producers intended."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Superficially provocative and deeply silly, this film at least starts with an original idea (...) 'Flatliners' ends up tripping on timidity. It's a movie about daring that dares nothing."	NEU
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"'Flatliners' is a stylish, eerie psychological horror film laced with wit, a movie that thrives on its characters' guilty secrets and succeeds on the strength of the director Joel"	POS
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Empire	"Not as profound as it would like to be, but nowhere near as bad as it could have been, this is entertaining hokum (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tom Hutchinson Radio Times	"[An] entertaining supernatural thriller (...) Schumacher puts more flash than flesh on the story (...) The afterlife stuff is rather too crudely clichéd (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times	"It's watchable (...) The movie's problem (...) is that it isn't any deeper, dramatically or psychologically, than its own trailer"	NEU
United States	John Hartl Seattle Times	"It's certainly never boring (...) Unfortunately the script, written by Peter Filardi (...) never adds up to much more than excitement for its own sake"	NEU

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