When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.
Coma is an extremely entertaining suspense drama in the Hitchcock tradition.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
27 Nov 2007
fresh:
See it and worry.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
30 Sep 2006
rotten:
The aftereffect of Coma is a catlike yawn, benign and bored.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
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.