Flatliners (2017) * * 1/2

A bunch of young medical students get fascinated as to what is on the other side - what happens when you die. So they wire up their brains and take it in turn to kill themselves for a few minutes. The others have to revive them.

If it died in 1990 it won't come back 
and this film proves it.

Unfortunately for us they are successful in the resuscitation, which means we have to keep enduring these silly characters in this even sillier story, which is a remake of a film from 1990.

Ultimately the thing they find on the other side is the consequence of the mistakes they did on this side, which sounds profound but it isn’t. It’s just plain daft when you watch it and nowhere near as scary or interesting as it could, or should be.

It stars Ellen Page who doesn’t seem to have cracked a decent role for ages and the Vicar of Grantchester  - James Norton - looking ridiculously miscast. To both of them I say “What the heck did you do this for?!”  

To myself I say, “What the heck did you go and see this for?”.  Actually I do have an answer for that.  I was ushered into the wrong cinema. I’d gone to see something else.  By the time the movie started it was too late, so I just sat through it. True story.

(I hope I am not ushered into the wrong room when I eventually "flatline." Or maybe I do?)