I don’t often get round to doing movie reviews, not in writing anyway, but thought I would make more of an effort given how much I enjoy them.

So, Flatliners. Not one to discount a film because it’s a remake (turns out most films are), I was interested in this one because I hold the original in such high regard and affection. It was a film of my youth and the subject matter was right up my street as you would say.

I wasn’t impressed with the remake, it seemed to try to hard to be scary, when the original didn’t really have to, it just was. But in a creeping sinister way, it left some of the thinking up to you, some of the wondering about what was going on.

The remake didn’t really give me any depth of character, they just gave me lots of character information, they are not the same. They made it jumpy too quickly and lost my attention. I watched until the end so I could see where they were going with it all, but haven’t re watched it. Yet the original, I could still watch that one at the drop of a hat…