Flatliners Review: 3 Ups & 8 Downs

3. Its Few New Ideas Don't Really Work

To the film's mild credit, it does at least bring a few new ideas to the table, but unfortunately, most of them ultimately fall flat and don't really work.

The biggest new idea is that when the kids are brought back from the dead, they receive residual "superpowers" of sorts, be it enhanced mental acuity, the resurgence of memories from their past, random horniness and so on.

Unfortunately the execution is what lets the not-terrible idea down: nothing remotely interesting is done with it, and so it just feels like a needless affectation to try and further differentiate the movie from its predecessor.