Review of Flatliners (2017) by Rebecca31 — 03 Oct 2017

Now here's a movie you might not expect to be in need of a remake but here we are anyway. Surely the whole point of a remake is at the very least to improve upon the original? Well Flatliners 2017 you failed at whatever you hoped to achieve.

A group of the most unlikable medical students you could possible imagine become obsessed by the idea of life after death. By stopping their hearts (or flatlining themselves) they long to see what the afterlife will hold for them which ultimately starts to have some alarming side effects. And cue the cheap jump scares, endless hallucinations oh and don't forget to throw in a cameo from Kiefer Sutherland because why not. It doesn't know whether it wants to be a horror movie or a psychological thriller, never comfortably fitting into anything but for me it started to drift into Final Destination territory. We all know the only movie that can do Final Destination is you guessed it, Final Destination. So the more it tried to scare me the more ridiculous it became. The 1990 version was by no means a masterpiece but it looks that way compared to this version. It was more focused and had a better cast so if you find yourself considering giving Flatliners a watch on your weekly cinema trip may I suggest you stay at home and watch the original instead.

I said to myself I wasn't going to give this movie the time of day and what did I do? I went to see it anyway in the desperate hope that it might fall into that rare "so bad it's good" category. Well, spoiler alert, it doesn't. I subjected myself to it so there's no need for you to either. Not recommended.