Flatliners

Five young medical students experiment with ‘flatlining’, a procedure designed to create a near-death experience. But the initial high of observing an afterlife soon gives way to darker consequences, as figures from their respective pasts come back to haunt them.

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Joel Schumacher's 1990 hit gets a deadly dull remake.

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Mr. Schumacher’s movie is more a failed tone poem than a horror picture, and to its credit, this new version, with a trickier script by Ben Ripley and hyper-competent direction from the Swedish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev improves on it — by making it behave like a horror movie every now and then.

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Deep in the bowels of a university's medical school, a group of students intentionally kill themselves for minutes at a time to experience what lies beyond. This is a fabulous idea for a movie, but unfortunately "Flatliners" represents the second failed attempt to do it justice.

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Joel Schumacher’s atmospheric cult classic about death-defying medical students, revived as blah horror.

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Instead, they made a film about the dangers of playing God, or at least playing God with sloppy scientific protocols.

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Almost 30 years after Joel Schumacher's hit, another group of med students tries to cheat death in Niels Arden Oplev's remake.

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Starring Ellen Page, update of a silly 1990 Julia Roberts thriller is "even more witless and stupefyingly dull than the original"

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Although the new script notably adds some diversity to the roster, it otherwise follows nearly every original plot point, from the characters’ backstories to the soaring depictions of the afterworld (only this time with bad CGI, sterilized set-pieces, and smartphones).

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