Five medical students try an experiment that would take them to figure out something for sure about life after death. Based on the stories of those who have experienced near death situations, are intended to undergo a similar experience at a time to artificially obtained to see what happens "after". The others must then revive the person undergoing the experiment. The risk of the operation is obvious, but the result is even more baffling and terrible because each is placed in contact with their fears and go free even if they do not return to the real world. Or the "monsters" of the past remain in the afterlife, but also return. The argument itself is always present, dealing with death and the possibility of an afterlife.
Flatliners inspired by the success of books by Raymond A. Moody Jr. on near death experiences and it dramatizes the concept centering on the psychosis of the students who are looking for answers to the eternal question of existence. Of course the answer is not there and the film does not even try, settling for a spectacle of the subject with good efficacy. Never too trivial and often disturbing, the film gives us some interesting insights into a dream beyond, a sort of psychedelic reworking of the guilt of the protagonists. Mélange of anxieties and fears buried, focuses on the effect of moral experience induced death, suggesting a little 'simplistically that will be a sort of initiation test to find peace of conscience. The fickle Schumacher is perhaps at his best here and takes advantage of a large and very good squad of players among which in effect Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon
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