Flatliners

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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: 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: Excellent direction and good acting
Review: I agree with the reviewer who commented at lenth on the scenes with Julia Roberts and her imagined reunion with her father. The period setting of her childhood was done perfectly, and when she returned and was climbing the stairs, her reaction at seeing the toy she thought had caused her father to fall was believable and touching. I thought the camera work circling her and her father during that reconciliation was so very effective, and Julia, being the great cryer that she is, along with that music, made the scene very moving. Excellent directing, good acting by everyone, especially Roberts, Bacon and Sutherland make it a movie that saves itself from it's farfetched premise and gives us some good entertainment.

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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: The film is outstanding!
Review: If all of Julia Roberts' stuff had such pnash and pizzazz there would be hope for Hollywood! Add Kevin and Keifer yep we're there! A must have for personal video libraries everywhere!

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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: EXELANT A MUST SEE!
Review: A really good movie this is! It almost makes you like the psyco of the movie(Nelson aka Keifer Sutherland) This si a movie for everyone. I truelly touches your heart while it freaks you out.

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Summary: An unquestionable masterpiece
Review: Flatliners is a remarkably audacious, wildly original exploration of one of the taboo topics of science and religion. Like Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, this film cannot be considered an all-time classic due to a highly opinionated viewpoint that may deeply offend some viewers. However, as far as direction, acting and suspense are concerned, few films rival Flatliners in its all-around splendor. Underneath a deceptively linear and seemingly simplistic script, there is much symbolism and underlying subtlety to be found in Schumacher's brilliant vision. Unlike the roller-coaster scenes of The Lost Boys that never materialize to be anything more than a misplaced piece of high-style imagery, the eerie, sometimes sacrilegious images that are thrown into the plot of Flatliners in a seemingly random fashion (the statues observed by the main character in the beginning, the merciless display of surgical operations) serve their purpose in implying the motivations and internal conflicts of the characters. Charged with alternatingly surprising and desperately predictable scenes, Flatliners is an exciting experience that will either frighten you or fascinate you but definitely will not leave anyone indifferent.

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Summary: Dreamlike, Spooky, Eeerie and all together Spectacular
Review: When the moon is high, and an unsettling breeze creeps through the alley behind my house, I sit dazed, my head floating as if in a dream as I lay watching FLATLINERS, one of my all-time favorite movies. It's a very mesmorising movie to watch. From it's creepy soundtrack, to the unusual way it is filmed. Definately a leader in it's genre. Other films I recommend are THE CROW, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (The Original), FRIGHT NIGHT, and THE LOST BOYS.

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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.