Coma
Boston medical resident Susan Wheeler becomes suspicious when her friend is left in an irreversible coma after a routine procedure. Once she notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital, she uncovers a horrible conspiracy.
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November 27, 2007
This is a tidy conspiracy-theory thriller from Crichton, who accentuates the tension by packing it into a wholly believable, human framework.
November 27, 2007
Coma wastes a superb performance by Bujold on a simplistic, predictable series of cliched suspense scenes, seasoned with some last-minute moralizing about contemporary medicine.
October 15, 2005
A superb suspense-thriller.
August 27, 2008
More entertaining than credible.
January 01, 2000
Michael Crichton's slow-paced thriller must have begun with something to say about the morality of the medical profession, but whatever it was is lost in the shuffle of unnecessary narrative detail.
July 11, 2012
Audiences used to a faster pace today will find the talky first half tough going.
August 08, 2012
The boys'-club politics at the hospital provide the picture with interesting subtext right in line with the sexual dynamics of the period; Bujold proves to be a worthy champion for the feminist cause.
September 30, 2006
See it and worry.
November 27, 2007
A suspense-filled nailbiter that plays on a fear no weapon weidling psycho can top.
May 09, 2005
The aftereffect of Coma is a catlike yawn, benign and bored.
July 19, 2012
...a genuinely suspenseful mystery thriller, with a conspiracy angle unfolding in due course without a lot of fuss and bother.
November 27, 2007
Coma is an extremely entertaining suspense drama in the Hitchcock tradition.
