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Summary: I LOVE THIS MOVIE GOD DAMN IT!!!
Review: This is a truly great movie!!! I love it so much! It's surprising how there aren't many really good reviews about this movie. This movie is really unusual, funny, hip, has a lot of suspense,and really touching at the same time. It's exciting to think about dying and then coming back to life. What I really like about this movie was basically the theme of paying for your own deeds, good or bad. It's really surprising how the things that you think matter the least is what actually matters the most. When Kiefer Sutherland became the first one to experiment with death, he was expecting anything BUT to be haunted by the kid that he bullied and accidentally killed when he was a little boy. The same is also true for the rest of the medical students who tried the experiment. It's interesting to realize that what we might think is important in this world is NOT what God think is important at all. My one TRUE favorite scene was when Julia Roberts had this revelation about her dead father...the color of the room changed into red...she walked up the stairs...and beside the stairs was her mother...ironing...it's so weird! What if she tried to talk to her? Would she answer back?? But she didn't talk to her, and ends up precceding to walk upstairs. As she opened the door, she saw her father injecting drugs to himself......and all of a sudden...he looked up to her,...and in the most touching, sincere, and sad voice, he apologized to her for what he has done. And they both hugged each other and cried..and as they do that, the light in the room changed slowly from red to a bright yellow...and as that's all happening, the beautiful and touching music started playing. This scene is so touching!! It's as if both worlds met to resolve a conflict that she (Julia Roberts) and her dad have never been able to resolve because of his death. My next favorite scene is when Kevin Bacon tries to find the one girl he use to bully when he was in elementary school and apologized to her, although she was already married and had children. That was also really cool!! Can you imagine someone who has treated you unfairly a long time ago, and after all those years, went to all the trouble to find you just to sincerely apologize to you and only that? I recommend everyone to watch this movie, it really has a beautiful theme, it really does. It's science and religion put together in a really nice way, and all the actors also played their parts really well.
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Summary: a masterpiece
Review: this is definetely a masterpiece one of the best of its kind, definately one I suggest you rent.
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Summary: Interesting Sci-Fi
Review: This is one of the few movies I've seen recently that has such an interesting premise that is so well executed. Kudos!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This movie is great from start to finish about a group of med students that get together and literally kill each other by stopping their hearts and then revive themselves. They then research what happens from the "near death" experiences. As each one goes through the experience, they become haunted by their deepest fears that seem to materialize as reality.
The cast is first rate and Oliver Platt is hilarious in one of the best roles of his career. I am not a big Keifer Sutherland fan but even he does an excellent job. This is a movie that I can watch over and over!
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Summary: A remarkable work, in spite of itself
Review: This movie is not exactly high on people's lists of Great Horror, but as a scientific-religious allegory it's sheer brilliance. The themes first explored in the original Frankenstein come back to haunt: that being the idea that the seeker of knowledge who stops at nothing to gain that knowledge should beware as the object of his desire may turn and bite him in the end.Keifer Sutherland is a young, arrogant medical student who cajoles his friends into playing what might be termed the Ultimate Game of Chicken: explore the afterlife through "flatlining" (i.e., artificially inducing a temporary state of medical death, followed by revival). It's sticking your nose in the Ultimate Don't Go Here Door, and he and his buddies--Oliver Platt, William Baldwin, the then-still-exquisite Julia Roberts (and her two friends, Port and Starboard), and of course Kevin Bacon, with whom they are all within One Degree of Separation From--discover that God Is Not Amused at trespassers. As each of them flatline, they explore the other side, then discover that when they come back to this world they are facing a world unexpected and unknown: the Real World, where their sins (yes! Sin! A three letter word NEVER heard in the movies anymore) come back and literally haunt them. Bacon is plagued by a child he once tormented; Baldwin, by the women he secretly filmed during sex (a sort of Sex, Truth, and Videotape Kodak moment). Roberts is seared by the memory of her father's suicide, and as for Sutherland... well, I have to leave SOME things undescribed. Let it stand that He Has a Little Secret and That Little Secret Is Seriously Pi... er, Ticked. What's remarkable about this film are the little things--the scene where Roberts is reunited with her father as the viewer can almost taste the wine of forgiveness; the moment where Bacon's victim, now grown to full womanhood and obviously as tough as nails, roasts him for an instant with her eyes, then sheds tears in remitting his wrong to her. Baldwin gets it between the eyes from every woman he has filmed, and then fifty times worse from his fiancee. But what makes all of this fit together is a moment of revelation by Sutherland, when he reveals that Bacon "has found the answer to our karmic problems. Atonement, gentlemen." The overall dark style, reminiscent of the later Badman films (that was supposed to read Batman, but I think I'll leave the typo unchanged) works most of the time, although the first time we encounter Sutherland's dog we see artwork on the walls that is best described as hideous-cheapie... but you take a horror flick as you get it. The idea that "everything matters, everything we do matters," is a message that Hollywood would rather not repeat. But it's true, and to anyone raised on a steady diet of Old Fashioned Catholic Guilt, it's not necessarily a bad thing to be reminded of occasionally. Sister Mary Brimstone may have been a nasty old bat, but she DID teach the truth about why we're in business. This movie is a small reminder of why. I've seen comparisons to THE SIXTH SENSE; but young Haley Osborne would not have been a good addition to this cast. Aside from the fact that he would have been about four months old during filming, the otherwise unknown child actor who plays Keifer's Ticked Secret is terrifying to behold. He may be a munchkin, but he's a Munchkin from Hell. Five stars in my view, but most will find three stars or so. Fair nuff. I like it anyway. A lot.
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Summary: A '90s classic!!!
Review: This movie just rocks. It could easily be the best movie that each actor in the movie has done. Kiefer Sutherland was also in "Young Guns 2" this year (1990), and that movie was maybe even better than the classic original. Talent.
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Summary: ~~ AMAZING ~~
Review: This Movie Rocks. This is one of my favorite movies in the world. The Acting is fantastic, and it is an ALL STAR CAST.. If you have ever wondered about death and what goes on after words, this movie tells you and shows you in a way thats remarkable. This Movie is one that everyone should see. ~~~~~A definite 5 STARS~~~~~
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Summary: Excellent idea, but not fleshed out properly
Review: This movie wasted a really good idea on a cliche movie theme. Asking forgiveness and forgiving yourself - I walked away feeling very unsatisfied.
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Summary: Not a bad movie...
Review: This was alright. I kind of enjoyed the cinematography and visuals on this movie. The acting needed a little help especially Billy Baldwin, he just bothers me. The concept of this movie is very interesting though and the movie itself is definitely worth giving a look.
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Summary: Three stars for trying.
Review: What a great premise for a modern horror story: Young Frankensteins bent crossing the line between life and death. It is a creative and interesting premise along the lines of so many classics, including, of course, Frankenstein, The Fly (the re-make, especially), and The Man With the X-Ray Eyes. Of course, there will be hell to pay for "going where Man ought not go." Oh yes, there'll be hell! But where the movie fails is in its rather silly, preachy lecture on the consequences of these actions. I won't give it away here, but the film turns into a cheap spin on a familiar ghost story, something done to much better effect in The Sixth Sense. The acting is just average, with Julia Roberts looking better than average, and constraining her hideous laugh, but the rest just mailing it in--with one exception. Kevin Bacon. He has turned out to be a terrific actor all around (including in Mystic River), and he is a real stand out in this film, too. Too bad he isn't enough to save it. Watch this movie for the premise, for the director's ability to create suspense, and try not to cringe too much as the truth is revealed. Once again, a great premise dies because of bad execution.
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