TravLehn Flatliners is an incredible movie ahead of its time. To get this exact same cast in this day and age would be nearly impossible. A must see for sci-fi fans. I honestly dont think it gets any better than this if your looking for a great sci-fi/horror movie. All of the cast is exceptional and the writing is amazing. Kiefer plays the peer pressure role pretty well to say the least! An all time classic. This is sci-fi 101 on how science fiction is to be made. Anybody interested in sci-fi has to see this before they flatline.

lucienstephens I watched this movie yesterday evening after I had seen it lurking on a charity shop shelf early that day. I cannot believe I have never seen it. This movie is everything I want a good thriller to be like, its intriguing, its gripping, and the plot and story is so interesting that it has left me still thinking about it the next day. I love movies that keep you you thinking and working things out days after watching it. The movies unique story line focuses primarily on life after death. this topic works so well into a movie because no one actually knows what happens after death. It mixes in messages of Karma, unfinished business to create a haunting and intense atmosphere. My only con is that it could have all been sown together a little better and potentially been a little more stylised. But who am I kidding this movie was made in 1990 which leads me on to my next point that this movie is timeless and will be continually hated for years to come.

Claudio Carvalho The medical student Nelson Wright (Kiefer Sutherland) invites Joe Hurley (William Baldwin), David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon), Rachel Mannus (Julia Roberts) and Randy Steckle (Oliver Platt), who are friends from his class, to participate in a near death experiment where he will die for one minute to see whether there is afterlife or not. After the successful result, Nelson tells that there is something afterlife and hides that he saw the boy Billy Mahoney that he used to bully with his friends. The next to try is Joe, who likes to secretly videotape women that he has sex. He stays dead for a longer time and has an erotic experience. Then the atheist David is the next to try the experiment for a longer time. He sees the black girl Winnie Hicks that he used to bully at school, and later he is haunted by her. David tries to convince Rachel Mannus to avoid the experiment but she is already dead when he arrives at the university. Soon Rachel is haunted by her deceased father that she believes died because of her. David learns that Nelson is haunted and injured by Billy Mahoney and discovers that they are haunted by their sins and atonement is the only way out. What will happen to them?"Flatliners" is a suspenseful horror film directed by Joel Schumacher in 1990 with a great cast. The storyline of afterlife, sins and atonement is original and well-resolved. Unfortunately this great storyline was recently used in a totally unnecessary remake. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): "Linha Mortal" ("Mortal Line")

James As probably the last person (and certainly the last sci-fi-loving person) in the world to see "Flatliners", I am compelled to conclude, not merely that this film has failed to age well, but also that it may never have been that great. And this despite what seems from today's perspective a stellar cast.Put simply, it was hardly worth waiting all this time for.While the makers do eventually pull together a more or less coherent explanation for what happens to young student-doctors so cocksure that they think they can play about with death itself, this understanding is a long time coming, and on the way we get rather few scares, precious little enlightenment, a dubious artistic/aesthetic experience, and not much fun of any kind. To cap that, when we finally do gain insight, that moderately satisfying near-end moment is followed by a cheesefest of a very ending.Much of the film has a melodramatic, mad-scientist, Frankenstein look about it, which might be OK, were it not sandwiched between slices of ordinary medical-student life that seem to take us nowhere at all, despite the fact that they obviously need to be present - these are real people after all, aren't they? Aren't they? Certainly we need to philosophise about life after death and so on, but that needs to be put in the hands of believable characters that we care about. Kevin Bacon's character David comes closest to this, and it's nice to seem him here as the second-least villainous and wrong-headed of the protagonists (after Oliver Platt as Randy Steckle, who does the job well-enough then, as now ... which may not be exactly a compliment to his career, if one really thinks about it).The principal flaw (doubtless more so when seen from today looking back) is that makers and cast alike were probably too convinced they were on to a groundbreaking winner, and it made them lazy.Individuals within this small group of people are prepared to have their colleagues electric-shock and drug them into death for several minutes, also leaving the revival process entirely in their hands. And yet, when they come round, they are totally secretive about what they experience subsequently. Question: in what possible circumstance does that ring true? Answer: in none! Beyond that, we have some almost absurdly grandiose Chicago settings in which all of the study, the crazy experimentation and even the residing takes place (given the absolutely palatial surroundings in which some of our young medicos live). What seems impressive for the first 10 minutes later becomes oppressive and then simply ludicrous. Buildings subject to renovation are not guarded, and are accessible, not only to our interloping "heroes", but also to crowds of Halloween-partying students. Hadn't Health and Safety been invented in 1990? And Chicago seems to have shifted up to the North Pole, since in October there are so many hours of darkness that it hardly ever seems to get light! Thus, much as one would like to present "Flatliners" as a golden oldie, pioneer trendsetter and launchpad for some pretty good acting talent, it doesn't really come over that way for a new viewer in 2016.