Written by James M. Tate / 10/28/2018 / No comments / horror , julia roberts , kevin bacon , kiefer sutherland , nineties , oliver platt , supernatural , thriller
SUTHERLAND WITH BACON & ROBERTS DIE IN 'FLATLINERS'
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Year of Release: 1990 |
Taking place in and around various classrooms and backrooms of some kind of steely, dystopic medical school, the shadow-filled, icky-green sets seem as if a neon Gothic explosion blew out most of the lights and took down half the equipment, like Dr. Frankenstein's lab dreamed-up by Tim Burton. Which is what FLATLINERS is going for aesthetically. But it turned out more like a glossy music video, especially the choppy extreme-closeups...
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Flatliners Score: **1/2 |
Because FLATLINERS does have entertainment value: the resuscitating scenes are suspenseful and the reanimated flashbacks haunting these intentionally pretentious students are intriguing...
But delving into earthly and mundane situations involving Keifer and Kevin's former grade school bullying; Julia's screwed-up father; and Baldwin's videotaped sexual conquests are as limited as those horror movies about ghosts who want nothing but that timeworn "closure" as opposed to being formidably evil beneath the surface. In a nutshell, FLATLINERS is proof that shallow Narcissism can only run so deep.
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