Too many fans seem to be blown away

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

This movie was a major letdown when I watched it. Basically they do these experiments on reviving the dead, but with a twist. After reviving a dog they had noticed hormones and stuff were more active leaving them to wonder... "What if we try this on a human? It's not a dog." Obviously being idiots they do it, but when revived nothing seemed off... Until you go into her perspective to realize something is off.. This movie is a really great movie to let younger children(Ages 7+) watch with with minimal sexual references, maybe some moderate gore with lots of violence. This spreads a positive message about how we shouldn't be reviving the dead and changing mother nature for the better of our lives.

I honestly didn't know what to think going in, considering the amount of bad reviews this film received back when it came out. Well...at least the actors seem to be trying to save this movie from absolute failure. I actually did enjoy the performances, and the characters (except for Zoe) are actually believable. My only problem is that everyone was either bland (The Mains) Annoying (Eva) or just completely unlikable (Clay and Niko) The Story is not amazing by any standard of the word, and while the premise is....interesting, it doesn't do anything to hook you in, and the actual way it's executed is rather lazy. Once the characters return to the lab, everything just...kind of happens. Suddenly the EMBODIMENT OF MARY SUE that is Zoe is evil and wants to kill everybody, and she does! Oh and there's a really stupid plot twist i'm not even going to mention because if i do you'll literally turn into a piece of toast and be eaten by the nearest person. My Recommendation is to watch if you're interested, but otherwise never even consider it.

A group of researchers led by Frank and his fiancée Zoe are able to bring back the dead to life in this horror film entitled "The Lazarus Effect".It stars Mark Duplass and Olivia Wilde together with Donald Glover,Evan Peters,Sarah Bolger,Amy Aquino and Ray Wise.Medical researchers Frank and his fiancée, Zoe have developed a serum that is able to assists coma patient.But later,it was revealed that it is actually able to bring the dead back to life. They code- named it as "Lazarus".With the assistance of their friends, Niko, Clay and videographer Eva,they run an experiment with the dog. But later,they try to apply the serum to human when an accident happens during their experiment. Well,it was obviously something that has already been done before.There is nothing new presented in this film.As always,those that are brought back to life whether be it a dog or a human being will always be having some problems in some parts of their body.And you've guessed it, things will definitely be not really successful at the end.

Another film which perhaps shoots itself in the foot a little by determinedly remaining enigmatic. Were we to learn a little bit more precisely what effect the (previously-only-animal-tested) scientific procedure carried out on lead-role Zoe (Olivia Wilde) REALLY had, it would not do any harm to the enjoyment of this creepy film, and might in fact make it still better. But enigmatic it remains, though scary enough. And all the more so given that pretty much everything happens in a single lab, populated by plausible-enough characters underplayed by their rather little-known actors to the point where we may at times feel this is a not a movie at all. For me that's a success, and by the way a nice metaphor for the claustrophobia and lack of real-world contact that can characterise the obsessive pursuit of scientific enquiry - this after all being a major theme of the film, before it leaves science fiction behind in favour of horror, in the last third of what is actually a very short whole. So short in fact that it remains taut and holds the attention throughout. There are a couple of why questions here - maybe why make the film in the first place? Though perhaps the answer to that is alluded to in what I wrote above. Also why certain characters act as they do at different points of the film. On the other hand, it could - reasonably - be argued that this adds to an authentic sense of nervous chaos that must presumably always accompany experiments that go wrong, or go too far, or both. As a scientifically-trained person myself, I have observed at first hand the tunnel vision that can rather easily come over research workers, so it certainly strikes me that this is a worthwhile issue raised. There is definitely many a horror film out there vastly less real-looking than this one, just as there are many films about science-gone-wrong that are less scary. But here we seem to have hit an interesting and rather novel balance. It works for me, if at a 7 and certainly not a 10...