very suspenseful and surprisingly intelligent film about five medical student flatlining themselves and then be resuscitate to share their experience of death and what lie beyond . joel schumacher direct with some skill create some very eerie scene as well a particularly beautiful one . the vision of death be not what viewer might expect nor be that which await u all when we go thanks to screenwriter peter filardi who really do an outstanding job come up with this story . while the creativity of the story be impressive and the story have many hole as well and particularly in the logic department and believability factor . notwithstanding all of that flatliners be a good effective film because of the script and the direction which again be very surreal at time and and the act which bring four very talented actor and william baldwin together . this core of actor act and reacts off each other very nicely . keifer sutherland do a very impressive job a the head of the group the one who come up with the idea to die and be bear again . he also manage to portray a man a young man with a damaging and destructive secret from his past . kevin bacon be fine a the most pragmatic and skeptical of the group . oliver platt be really good a the voice of reason and human fear . platt have some really good line and play the paranoia well . yes and julia robert be here too and very good . the actor do best though by play off each other and make u believe they be such good friend . i be duly impressed with much of flatliners but more than anything else the story affect me the most . the scene with that dog hobble around the street just one of those powerful image evoke a be many of the flashback scene .