Flatliners (2017)

Surely when tasked with remaking the 1990 horror thriller Flatliners, your only job is to use new cinetechnology to update the spectacle of the afterlife, but in Niels Arden Oplev's moribund morality tale, death is about as out-of-reach an experience as a Red Balloon motorcycle ride or a swim-with-the-jellyfish gift voucher and by the end of the movie it is revealed the afterlife doesn't even bear upon the crises being experienced by this self-centred and super-dull group of med students.

★☆☆☆☆

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The East (2013)

Probably created with an Alias/12 Monkeys tv series in mind, this drama is about an uncharismatic ecoterrorist group whose daft eating habits, awkward bathing rituals, dullard Charles Manson lookalike leader and soapbox politics are supposedly so intoxicating they cause the undercover agent infiltrating the group (Brit Marling) to question her loyalties.

★☆☆☆☆

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