A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
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.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The aftereffect of Coma is a catlike yawn, benign and bored.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
fresh:
See it and worry.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
30 Sep 2006
fresh:
Coma is an extremely entertaining suspense drama in the Hitchcock tradition.