Flatliners Review: 3 Ups & 8 Downs

By Jack Pooley / September 30, 2017

2. It's Full Of Unintentional Comedy

While the original film was certainly goofy at times, the new movie dials the unintentional humour up to eleven, in large part because it takes itself so much more seriously than the 1990 version.

From the silly jump scares that are delivered with a near-funereal tone, through to the aforementioned laptop scenes and possibly the year's weirdest sex scene in a mainstream movie, it all adds up to make the new Flatliners a tonally confused experience.

To that end perhaps bad film aficionados might express some interest in watching it, but honestly, the film is mostly just unironically bad.