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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 6, 2017

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

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 5, 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.

| Oct 2, 2017

This new version is sadly D.O.A.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 2, 2017

This would be boring if it wasn't so unintentionally funny.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 1, 2017

We live in an age of unnecessary remakes - but the new Flatliners movie, by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, has the distinction of being perhaps the most unnecessary of them all.

| Original Score: C | Sep 30, 2017

A fright-free fiasco. This update of a silly 1990 Julia Roberts thriller is even more witless and stupefyingly dull than the original.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 30, 2017

A fabulous idea for a movie, but unfortunately Flatliners represents the second failed attempt to do it justice.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 30, 2017

... the low-aiming remake feels like just another generic horror flick.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 30, 2017

To their credit, the cast tries to bring some life ...but a script with all the depth of a baby pool cannot be saved.

| Sep 30, 2017

Flatliners is a movie made by people who don't respect genre but try to fake it.

| Sep 30, 2017

About as inessential as reboots get, "Flatliners"... otherwise offers no reason for reanimating this long-expired property.

| Sep 30, 2017

Not every remake is unnecessary, but the idea only works when the new movie takes the basic premise and takes it in new directions.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2017

As Andy Kaufman's Foreign Man would put it, "Ees so bad, ees terrible."

| Sep 29, 2017

Somebody get a defibrillator in here, stat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2017

Oplev turns the conceit into just another excuse for rote haunting, making this Flatliners often indistinguishable from its 2017 thriller peers.

| Sep 29, 2017

This Flatliners is in fact a new definition of "meh."

| Sep 29, 2017

The best that can be said about the Flatliners remake is that the new filmmaking team of writer Ben Ripley and director Niels Arden Oplev makes the original's members look like peerless masters of horror.

| Sep 29, 2017

An agonizingly boring remake of a movie about the danger of bringing things back from the dead.

| Original Score: D | Sep 29, 2017

The original Flatliners should have had a 'Do Not Resuscitate' order attached to it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2017