the only thing more full of hole than this movie premise be it script . flatliners be the ideal showcase for joel schumacher glorious and flamboyant and brazen lack of talent . the plot be totally illogical but super fake ponderous and everything be art direct within an inch of it life in the most clichéd and overheated way . i love how the med school autopsy room be a cavernous vault marble mausoleum low lit in red with huge rembrandt painting hang from the wall . i love how keifer sutherland drive a canvas back army jeep . no one in joel schumacher movie live in an un eccentric manner . it always an alternate universe where everyone be young and painfully hip and but hip strictly and obsessively accord to an out of touch middle age billionaire man child idea of hip . and holy crap . the part where baldwin brother # 16 dy and come back to life and then be haunt by all the woman he sleep with who intone i will call you and i just need some space be the funny friggin thing in the whole universe . what kind of a world do we live in where joel schumacher get to keep have people throw money at him . flatliners make me want to review the man entire oeuvre solely for the kind of high quality yuks contain therein .