Flatliners

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Flatliners

PG-13

2017

1h 48m

Mystery & Thriller

Sci-Fi

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Five medical students embark on a daring and dangerous experiment to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life. The bold adventure begins when they trigger near-death experiences by stopping their hearts for short periods of time. As their trials become more perilous, each must confront the sins from their past while facing the paranormal consequences of journeying to the other side.

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Critics Consensus

Flatliners falls flat as a horror movie and fails to improve upon its source material, rendering this reboot dead on arrival.

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Stephen Romei

The Australian

Oct 6, 2017

2/5

Flatliners, the remake, is a good example of how the gene pool doesn't necessarily become stronger with time.

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Danielle White

Austin Chronicle

Oct 5, 2017

1/5

If you find Flatliners to be conceptually interesting (which it is), stay home and rent the original.

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Tasha Robinson

The Verge

Oct 2, 2017

Instead, this is yet another cinematic Frankenstein's monster, stitched together out of scavenged parts, and shocked back to life for no clear or compelling reason.

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Daniel Howat

Next Best Picture

May 19, 2022

2/10

There's no sense in burying the lede: Flatliners is terrible. Instead of attempting a philosophical exploration of death and life, Flatliners settles for being a poor, generic thriller without any real thrills.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Mar 17, 2022

0.5/4

Schumacher's Flatliners is prime material for a remake, being a slick idea that wasn't handled very well in the first place; but alas, this version is a disposable, nonsensical, and instantly forgettable mess that makes the original seem almost masterful.

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Emma Wolfe

SpookyAstronauts

Apr 22, 2021

4/10

It was so basic... just kind of went through the motions.

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B P

@Bradster69 Sep 21, 2026

Not Bad, but Not My Favorite

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 18, 2026

Flatliners is nothing like the original...

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Anthony F

@Anthony999 Sep 3, 2026

Absolutely awful. Interminable and repetitive, even worse than the first version which wasn’t very good either.

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Jules Lighuen R

@julesrc May 11, 2026

While the concept in itself is interesting, it goes from Grey's Anatomy to bad horror movie without really diving into the potentially interesting depths of the afterlife and the idea of 'playing' with death. It leaves the viewer with no true meaning or message, and reinforces Christian ideas of repentance, sin, 'light' and so on, but again without really developing it at all. Absolutely not recommended.

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Marco L

@decatur555 Mar 3, 2026

The 2017 Flatliners remake takes the same high-concept hook – med students stopping their hearts to glimpse the afterlife – and runs it through the filter of glossy teen horror. The result is watchable but aggressively familiar. The young cast (with Ellen Page and Diego Luna doing what they can) has some chemistry, and the film’s hospital-at-night aesthetic delivers a few decent jump scares. But once the initial experiment is set up, the story slides into generic territory: stock character types, predictable hauntings and a surprisingly soft turn toward redemption and "fix your past mistakes" messaging. It never digs as deep into guilt or atmosphere as the 1990 original, nor does it find a new angle to justify its existence. As a disposable late-night supernatural thriller it’s fine, but it’s unlikely to stay with you once the credits roll.

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Beingalive I

@Rarwww Feb 8, 2026

One minute you're watching a medical paranormal movie and the next there's a little girl on a balcony(that got "intruduced" in a whole 2 minutes). The lead is dead...everyone except ray almost dies i took away that Netflix descriptions are trickery. Watched with my friend and she says the emoji movie is more consistent in storyline (I agree).

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Synopsis

Five medical students embark on a daring and dangerous experiment to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life. The bold adventure begins when they trigger near-death experiences by stopping their hearts for short periods of time. As their trials become more perilous, each must confront the sins from their past while facing the paranormal consequences of journeying to the other side.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Producer: Laurence Mark, Michael Douglas, Peter Safran
Screenwriter: Ben Ripley
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Laurence Mark Productions, Safran Company
Rating: PG-13 (Sexual Content|Language|Some Drug References|Thematic Material|Violence and Terror)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 29, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 5, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $16.9M
Runtime: 1h 48m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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