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Undescribable Perfection

good back-story, and good acting

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Excellent book! However, screenplay toned down most of the character's strong points. In the book, Dr. Susan Wheeler is a strong woman with strong convictions, not just a pretty young medical student who stumbled upon events. She investigated the occurrences at Boston Memorial hospital as a detective would and did not just wonder what was happening as the movie portrays. The screenplay at times runs on like a bad soap opera.The book holds it's own as true mystery thriller. (After reading the book, honestly it was a little hard to stay awake till the end of the movie.) The only thing holding up this movie is the book. So, again, save time and just read the book. Very good novel!

Absorbing thriller, with taut direction by Crichton, an outstanding performance by Bujold and yet another spectacular score by Jerry Goldsmith. The notion of harvesting body parts is definitely still Timely (and I'm not talking about the inane fuss kicked up by politicos vying for funds regarding abortion or stem cell research or any of the rest of it): not long ago, former Vice president Dick Cheney needed yet ANOTHER heart replacement and managed, magically, to move to the head of the line of people waiting for heart transplants. What happened THERE...? COMA suggests possibilities. And the remark about hospitals being "the cathedrals of our age" has never been truer. (I had a doctor tell me once that I had six months to live. I divested myself of all the things I'd accumulated over my lifetime that I planned to "sit back and enjoy in my old age": a vintage collection of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND magazine; scores of collectible comics; books by the hundreds (including a complete run of paperback reprints of THE SHADOW from the late '60s, most in mint condition, and almost every single one of the Robert E. Howard collections from the same era, ALL of them in mint condition), etc. Seven months later, I went back to talk to that same doctor. I wanted to know WHY he told me that I had six months to live. His response: "I don't know WHY I told you that." That was about four years ago. Let that be a lesson for you: ALWAYS get a second opinion.)

This threw out the possibility that at some point, when money talked loudly enough, those who could afford it could bypass the the organ transplant protocols and simply buy their substitute organs. That's a possibility, but like the grave robbers of the 19th Century, with a shortage of lungs and hearts and livers and kidneys, perhaps one needs to harvest them in a whole new way. Genevieve Bujold plays a young doctor who comes to realize that healthy people in her hospital have a high incidence of coma. When she investigates, it becomes obvious that she is being kept from the truth; more than that, her life is probably in danger. This movie was controversial. Robin Cook's book was a big bestseller. Certainly provocative but not as good as it could have been.

I was pleasantly surprised by this mystery thriller. Here we have a young nurse played by the for me unknown Geneviève Bujold who is shocked when her best friend goes into a coma after a pretty standard surgery. When she goes on investigation it seems her friend was not the only one, its is happening to pretty young and healthy people and this all in the same operation room with number 8. This leads our heroine to another hospital. Even when some people are trying to stop her she shows incredible dedication to continue. The scenes where she is stalked are really exciting and atmospheric. Especially that room full of dead bodies pending on a hook as if it were clothes in a shop is wonderfully gruesome. Despite its long duration it is one that didn't bore me a moment.