Synopsis
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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Cast
- Elliot PageCourtney
- Diego LunaRay
- Nina DobrevMarlo
- James NortonJamie
- Kiersey ClemonsSophia
- Beau MirchoffBrad Mauser
- Wendy Raquel RobinsonSophia's Mother
- Kiefer SutherlandDr. Barry Wolfson
- Madison BrydgesTessa
- Jacob SoleyAlex
Recommendations
- 50
IGN
Flatliners had every opportunity to improve on the original, and it doesn’t take most of them. It falls flat as a horror movie but the cast is good enough, and the sci-fi concepts are interesting enough, to keep it from crashing completely. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
While the talented cast...do as well as can be expected with the (excuse the weak pun) pretty flat script, this remake likely will be all but forgotten shortly after it hits multiplexes this weekend. - 50
Movie Nation
It all adds up to “not half-bad,” with Page managing the emotional high point and Clemons and Norton delivering the near-laughs and Luna the sober man-of-science common sense. Tricky thing about half-bad, though. That means, at its best, it’s only half good. - 40
Empire
Starts strong, finishes dull. The original Flatliners should have had a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order attached to it. - 40
Screen Daily
No matter what Oplev throws at us, the film refuses to catch fire and just grows sillier and more contrived as it unfolds. It never feels distinctive and often has the air of just another entry in the Final Destination series. - 40
Time Out
Mostly, it's hackneyed horror devices uneasily mixed with softball dramatics of atonement, to increasingly plodding effect. Somebody get a defibrillator in here, stat. - 35
TheWrap
This Flatliners plays like a malpractice case: a cheap horror film grafted on to an episode of “House.” - 33
The A.V. Club
Flatliners 2017 is the same dumb movie as Flatliners 1990, minus most of the surface charisma.
