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Rating:  - HOSPITAL THRILLER
Coma
BASED ON THE BOOK BY ROBIN COOK, THIS IS ONE OF THE LATE MICHAEL CRICHTON'S BEST FILM EFFORTS. GENEVIEVE BUJOLD PLAYS A RESIDENT DOCTOR WHO BECOMES CURIOUS ABOUT CERTAIN PATIENTS GOING INTO A STATE OF COMA, PARTICULARLY FROM O.R.8 (OPERATING THEATRE 8). MICHAEL DOUGLAS, ALSO A RESIDENT AT THE SAME HOSPITAL, DISBELIEVES HER AT FIRST BUT STEP BY STEP SLOWLY GETS CONVINCED THAT SHE IS RIGHT. BOND BEAUTY, LOIS CHILES, FROM MOONRAKER, PLAYS BUJOLD'S CLOSE FRIEND, WHO GOES INTO COMA, RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FILM. THE SUSPENCE IS TERRIFIC. YOU WILL CERTAINLY BE SCARED. THE DVD QUALITY IS SUPERB. YOU CAN SEE IT EITHER FULL SCREEN OR LETTERBOXED. YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO TURN THE DVD OVER. ELIZABETH ASHLEY IS THE SPOOKY HEAD-NURSE IN THE HUGE FACILITY FROM WHERE THE ORGANS REMOVED FROM THE COMATOSE PATIENTS ARE STORED AND SUPPLIED TO VARIOUS 'CLIENTS' THROUGH-OUT THE GLOBE. THE FACILITY IS SURROUNDED BY ARMED GUARDS AND FIERCE DOGS. VETERAN RICHARD WIDMARK, IS THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT(H.O.D)OF SURGERY. HE PLAYS HIS PART TO PERFECTION.
Rating:  - Do they show this film in hospital waiting rooms?
Do you have any fears about going into the hospital? If so the movie ''Coma'' will probably scare the socks off you. This creepy 1978 medical horror film is based on a book by Robin Cook while the film version is directed by Michael Crichton.
The plot initially focuses on a young woman's mysterious lapse into a coma while in surgery. Dr. Susan Wheeler (played by Genevieve Bujold), friend of the affected woman, starts investigating the case, although the doctors involved discourage her. The more Wheeler digs around in hospital case records, the more cases of mysterious coma cases she finds. And all the affected patients ended-up being transferred to the secretive Jefferson Institute, where people exist in a vegetative state.
Michael Douglas plays Wheeler's boyfriend, who is baffled by her obsession with the coma cases. Wheeler also runs into trouble by crossing the path of hospital administrator Dr. Harris (Richard Widmark) and the cold-hearted Dr. George, played by actor Rip Torn. But eventually Bujold's character discovers a terrifying secret linking the coma cases and realizes her own life is in danger.
I liked many aspects of this film but overall think it's just average. The acting at time is wooden and the plot just plods along until the second half. There are some great sci-fi type scenes in ''Coma'' at the mysterious Jefferson Institute, and a horrific scene involving dozens of cadavers, but many scenes are unimaginative and clunky (especially Operating Room scenes). I also thought the ending was rather abrupt - it could have packed a lot more punch. But the film is still worth watching.
Rating: - Too much dialog!
I've read the book COMA and prefer it much more than the movie. During about the first part of the movie, there is a lot of dialog and is a little boring. Starting into the second half though, things start to step up! This is a great science fiction movie!
Rating: - Good suspense thriller
Good suspense thriller that demonstrates that you do not need a megabudget of special effexts to make a good movie
Rating:  - believeable
I saw this film - Coma - many years ago, and it starts out very nice with the kind atmosphere you`ll find in a hospital. Some kind low voices, and some intercom orders that tells the "people in white" something. But after sometime you are shown a side of a hospital that is raising the hair on your head and make you think: I hope I will stay healthy. And you feel the scaryness when you start to be aware of that you might not come out of the hospital again - alive.
But what makes this film so special to me? I have been in the technical department of a hospital for 28years, and I will assure you that this film is showing that what happens here is truely possible.
Th Myrseth
Molde Norway (stay healthy - remember, "one apple a day, keeps the mur... away" - dont go to sleep after seeing this film )
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