“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,” Entertainment Weekly’s Christian Holub writes. “What we get is a mediocre remake of a mediocre original - not exactly must-see cinema,” writes ReelViews’ James Berardinelli. Here are some of the harshest blurbs against Flatliners:
The original Flatliners was a moderate hit at the box office, and starred up-and-comers like Kiefer Sutherland (who also appears in the remake), Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon. There have been seven films in 2017 to have scored a 0% - the Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton comedy The Layover, Daniel Craig-starrer Kings, and Netflix’s Naked.
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It is directed - on a relatively hefty budget of $30 million - by Neils Arden Oplev, who directed the original Swedish Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movie in 2009.įlatliners is the eight film in recent months to have achieved this distinction. The ensemble cast includes several well-known young stars: Oscar-winner Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Kiersey Clemons, James Norton and Nina Dobrev. Since then, a single positive review has nudged the score to 3%, but it is enough to make Flatliners one of the worst reviewed films of the year - and certainly the one with the most recognisable faces involved. Its their way of laughing death in the face. Dick Johnson is Dead (2020): Documentary filmmaker and her aging father use his mental and physical decline as the inspiration to stage various accidental deaths for him on camera. But more notably, until late Sunday, the film stood at 0% on the review aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes. Dick Johnson is Dead (2020) Rotten Tomatoes. The film bombed at the box office, making less than $10 million. Flatliners, the sci-fi remake of a 1990 cult film, opened with a deafening thud over the weekend.