Flatliners

Pretty chill for a remake. Nothing new under the Sun but it was fun to watch the group of wannabe future doctors from the American West Side as their life dream slowly melted. (20.03.2019)

This film doesn't offer anything innovative and interesting, maybe if it was an original, so be it, but this way it doesn't impress much. While I wasn't bored and the first hour is interesting with medicine and the experiments, the second part with the ghosts is not so interesting. The scares don't work, the atmosphere is nil and the characters don't die, so it's weak in terms of horror. An average film and a pointless remake, but it is watchable. 55% (15.12.2017)

Neue Versionen von Geschichten, welche nichts Neues bringen und im Gegenteil das Bekannte vereinfachen, mag ich nicht. Hier ist es der Fall, weil der einzige für mich interessante Beitrag die Besetzung von Ellen Page ist. Sonst nichts. Eine Weile habe ich gedacht, dass es kein Remake sein wird, sondern eine Fortsetzung, dass Kiefer Sutherland dieselbe Figur wie im Original spielen wird und die neuen Held*innen seine Frankenstein-Notizen finden. Da habe ich mir aber leider zu viel gewünscht. Sutherlands Figur war schließlich überflüssig, so wie der ganze Film. Er ist nicht ausgesprochen schlecht (diejenigen, die das Original nicht kennen, werden wahrscheinlich zufriedener sein), er ist aber überflüssig. (28.07.2019)

The original Flatliners may not have been a party hard in terms of screenwriting either, but we could at least believe the characters in their self-destructive zeal in pursuit of selfish knowledge, aided by the stylized, hyperactive direction of the exuberant Schumacher, who set the entire plot in the deserted gothic interiors and quiet streets of a host city moments before an unspecified apocalypse. In the remake, a bunch of spoiled kids inflict clinical death on each other in order to do better in school, dance, get laid, or BAKE HOMEMADE BREAD! Of course, there’s completely zero interest in the fates of these shallow, characterless creatures, despite the many uninventive jump-scares and horrors, and the film has nothing else to offer. Not even the visuals, which made the original Flatliners into something that at least we remember. (20.02.2018)

The 2017 film Flatliners simply had no chance to succeed. The horror atmosphere is only there once in a while and it's really more of an agitation. This is also a remake of a good film, which automatically makes it flawed in my eyes. This really was bad and there was no point in making this remake. The film also features Ellen Page, who I find more and more annoying in each film I see her in. (04.05.2018)