Moscow is preparing to meet the new 2020 year. A political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. A young doctor at a hospital, Susan Wheeler (played by Geneviève Bujold), starts noticing a pattern of strange occurrences with patients. The pathologists are puzzled, and this leads to speculation on how to commit the perfect murder, to which one of the pathologists suggests carbon monoxide poisoning.
Written by American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. (2020). 37 of 42 people found this review helpful. The cast includes Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Richard Widmark, and Rip Torn. Coma tries to infuse some social consciousness into a standard and conventional thriller. The only negative aspect of this movie was the ending happens very very quickly, kind of leaves you feeling a little hurried but still an first class movie. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target. It's definately a movie that you might be tempted to pass by but it's worth renting. She is conductor between world of lives and dead. It was absolutely intriguing and brilliantly filmed. Susan announces herself as Dr. Susan Wheeler, and asks if she can enter, but is informed that the facility is closed, but that the next tour for physicians is Tuesday morning. It was well received by critics and audiences. Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty. Coma is a 1978 American mystery thriller film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Robin Cook. [5] Crichton described the film as like a "Western... if the doctors are the bad guys they are also the good guys. Government agents are sent to catch him. A man awakens in a chaotic dystopian world filled with memories of comatose patients and nonexistent laws of physics. Three of four models, who had plastic surgery done by Larry after a computed list, are dead. Susan finds that over the previous year an unusual number of other fit, young people have suffered the same fate. England, 1850s. Susan wants both of them to go inside, but Mark declines, allowing her to go alone while he waits in the car. (1978). She starts investigating and what she reveals is astonishing. A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park. Following an access road, a mysterious, imposing and unmarked concrete building reveals itself. Dr. Wheeler begins to notice strange "coincidences" around the hospital and starts to investigate other "Coma" cases. Dr. Harris offers her a drugged drink which begins to incapacitate Susan while also causing severe abdominal pain that mimics appendicitis. Dr. Susan Wheeler is a surgical resident at Boston Memorial Hospital. [6] The mysterious, Brutalist-style building that served as the film's "Jefferson Institute" was at the time of filming a regional headquarters of Xerox Corporation located in Lexington, Massachusetts. The journalist Nike Ponpeo disappeared in Russia. Was this review helpful to you?
Who's behind the lists and murders? The story unravels perfectly and the tension and clues are superb. She manages to escape security atop the roof of an ambulance leaving to transport harvested organs to Logan Airport. Also look for Tom Selleck portraying a patient/dead body. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. The patients are rendered brain-dead via covert carbon monoxide poisoning through a line that leads from a tank in the basement to one OR--number 8--the valve for which is controlled by a radio signal. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? As they are preparing for surgery, Dr. Harris is informed that his preferred operating room is not available. The banker creates a monster that settles in the Neva river.
A truly groundbreaking visual extravaganza but the character development was pretty poor and you don't really get to know or care about any of them which is a shame.The storyline is well put together but lacks the human element and feels much like the CGI; artificial but still it is a film for every Sci-Fi fan who will not fail to be awestruck by the visuals and for once the CGI does make the film and overcomes a lot of the poorer elements of the film. "[6] Crichton says that even though the lead in the book was a female the studio talked about getting Paul Newman to play it, but he fought it. A NASA Mars mission won't work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out. Someone - it's you. People go to it. A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant. You can't get a much better 2 hour movie. How does carbon monoxide affect the body? Each actor whether big or small brought a twist to the story. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him... See full summary ». History of different interesting Moscow places. Michael Douglas called the film "the first time I've been offered a project with a good story laid out well, a good cast, and a good director.
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