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Information
- Year
- 1978
- Runtime
- 113 min.
- Director
- Michael Crichton
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Horror
- Rating *
- 6.9
- Votes *
- 12,794
- Checks
- 851
- Favs
- 43
- Dislikes
- 9
- Favs/checks
- 5.1% (1:20)
- Favs/dislikes
- 5:1
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Siskoid
With Michael Crichton, you often have to ignore the plot contrivances that threaten to euthanize your willing suspension of disbelief. That's as true of Coma, a medical thriller he directed himself, as it is of Jurassic Park, but for me, the problem wasn't that. We're used to people not going to the police when they should in movies like this, and it works in the sense that everybody is gaslighting Geneviève Bujold's character, so she's unlikely to think the police will help without some serious back up. No, my problem with it is that the mystery's solution is sign-posted around the 25-minute mark, and from then on I'm way ahead of the game and just waiting to see how it all plays out. Still a couple twists after that, and some good tension, though I was much more interested in the medical investigations of the first half, than the thriller stuff of the back end, which amounts to a heck of a lot of skulking around hospital corridors and air ducts. Coma has big stars - Michael Douglas and Richard Widmark among them, as well as early bit parts for Ed Harris and Tom Selleck - but ultimately looks like a television medical drama. If not for the memorable shot of comatose patients hanging from wires in a warehouse, the non-salary budget would be near unnoticeable. 4 years ago -
