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Intelligent idea poorly delivered
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Feb 7, 2005
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Michael Douglas and Genevieve Bujold work in a hospital in Boston, MA. They are both doctors. One of Bujold's friends goes to the hospital to have an abortion. She slips into a coma.
Tom Selleck goes to the hospital, he slips into a coma.
Bujold starts to worry why these young people are suddenly slipping into coma's. These coma's are irreversible by the way, the patients are brain-dead.
What she finds out is that some of the doctor's are intentionally putting the patients in coma's by pumping in carbon dioxide. Once the patients are considered brain-dead comatose, they send them over to a local institute funded by the government where their internal organs are sold to the rich.
In one conversation, a person orders a heart for 200k.
It could have been scary but Crichton who directed the film, rushed through the scenes and tried to make the audience believe that no one outside of Bujold would have been concerned about the coma's. Even her lover, Douglas was clueless and the other doctor's were apparently in on the coma inducing.
There is a long drawn out scene of a thug chasing Bujold around the hospital with a gun with apparently no one else there. It was a pretty big hospital.
The ending was really lame with Douglas saving the day and the head doctor apparently being led off to jail.
Very rushed and unbelievable, Crichton should stick to writing. Not worth your time. |
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