Gee. It would be nice if the reviewer actually understood what the movie (or, for that matter, what the original movie) was actually about.

Reincarnation! Not so much! This movie (or, for that matter, the original) had nothing remotely to do with reincarnation (or, to stretch a point) with re-animation. Just completely wrong! Reincarnation is about the transfer of the soul to a new body/existence following death. You come back as someone else, or as a cockroach. This movie, and the protagonists’ experiments in the movie, are not remotely about that.

And the reviewer does not even ‘get’ the message of the movie – trite as it may be!

The protagonists in the movie were not investigating reincarnation or even re-animation; rather they were hoping to map brain function during near death experiences, and get themselves some benefit thereby (PHD? Published in Medical Journals?). They also wanted to record their experiences ‘on the other side’.

The experiment participants were ultimately being haunted and pursued by their own guilt. Whether they had ‘brought something back’ from ‘the other side’ by their near death experiences is left (rightly) an unanswered question, but heavily implied to be in the affirmative. The ‘message’ is that to avoid destruction the protagonists had to confront and admit to their responsibility for whatever sins they had committed, and they had also to forgive themselves, otherwise they were toast!

Whether or not this is handled well by the movie is another question, but something perhaps worthy of review. Sadly, the current review does not address the actual contents of the movie, and misses the point entirely.

Also, the reviewer gets the role of Kiefer Sutherland in the recent movie wrong as well. He was not engaged in ‘reviewing professional standards’ of ‘new medicos’. The Kiefer Sutherland character was just an educator of medical students – his role was just as a teacher in a hospital setting:- what did these symptoms indicate? What should be the diagnosis? What should be the indicated treatment? And so on.
The Flatliners remake is not a perfect movie by any means. There are quite a few things wrong with it. But it should be expected of a reviewer to have actually understood the plot. At least get the facts right before you criticize the execution!