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Flatliners

Director Joel Schumacher and cinematographer Jan de Bont created a feverishly moody background with the use of colorful neon lighting. Placing emphasis on and around dark spooky corners, gothic detailing of buildings, and illuminating streets with a watery glaze, where the colored light dances within it, reflected a feeling of another realm one was traveling in.

Deeply intense with an overall feel of being trapped in a nightmare, Flatliners carried itself with uniqueness, thrilling energy, and the provocativeness of the theme implied. A group of exceptionally gifted medical students Nelson (Kiefer Sutherland), Rachel (Julia Roberts), David (Kevin Bacon), Joe (William Baldwin) and Randy (Oliver Platt) decide experimenting with their own lives by self-inducing death in the hopes of finding answers to their own questions of what happens after death.

Not at all planned from their trip to the other world, their discoveries came back to join them. And frankly some of them were none too happy.

A door that should not have been opened has been with such unscrupulous and sacrilegious means that this group of over pretentious medical students will soon come to realize that life and death is to be left in the hands of their maker, and only then will their questions be answered.

Fine performances were a good combination of style, charisma, and talent. I personally enjoyed the acting talents of Kevin Bacon and Kiefer Sutherland.

"Party Town" by Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys was an ultra cool song loaded with attitude!

This was a solid movie that gave some edgy and disturbing scenes. But most of all, it's about the unconscious holdings we may be carrying with us at times. It helped to show examples of compassion, regret, and forgiveness. Forgiveness being the critical and very emotional story line.

Written by: Lynda Dale MacLean

Reviewers Rating: 8
Reader's Rating: 8.55
Reader's Votes: 11

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