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This movie has hints of Malice and Flatliners. Unfortunately, Hayden Christensen again demonstrates his inability to act even in this one hour and 18 minutes movie. Much less tedious than his roles in Starwars I and II, but then again this movie was half as long. It was still boring. The primise evolves around the fact that some people remain consciously awake during anesthesia eventhough they are incapable of moving or talking. Thus we have the young, rich budding tycoon with a heart condition. He first falls in love with his Mother’s secretary, who in actuality was a nurse who had been involved with a cardiac surgeon with 4 malpractice suits against him. Well, you can figure it out from there. Marriage and inheritance. Murder during a needed heart transplant. Mother doesn’t like son marrying beneath his station. Mother wanted another surgeon than the one who had treated him and befriended him and who encouraged his marriage to … you guessed it. Well, things get a little mixed up with the murder plot, mother commits suicide, her blood type matches, of course, son gets second transplant before he was taken off heart-lung machine, all the bad guys get caught. I guess the socially redeeming aspect of the movie is supposed to be is reconcilliation of son and mother in the “after-life” before revived from the second heart transplant. I am sure this was a tax write off for the movie company and even the producer and director probably had a hard time stretching the movie out to an hour and 18 minutes once they saw how really horrible it was. I am even surprised this movie got to the big screen and didn’t go directly to DVD. Save your money and watch reruns on TV.