The top mistakes in Flatliners http://www.moviemistakes.com/film488 en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:55:04 +0000 22958 During the defibrillation scenes, the 'doctors' rub the paddles together before delivering the electrical shock. Yet there is no gel on the paddles, and no gel pads on the 'patient' either. 3063 Julia Roberts' character's father kills himself after returning home from the Vietnam war (presumably in the early 70's) addicted to morphine. The problem with this is that he kills himself in a 1978 or 79 ford pickup - Ford did not produce any pick-ups with square headlights until those years. 23322 Asystole (the lack of cardiac activity, also known as the 'flatline') is not treated with defibrillation (electric shocks) but with alternating doses of the drugs epinephrine and atropine. 3065 When Kiefer Sutherland first undergoes the experiment, the doctors use a small mask to put him to sleep. When he is supposedly waking up, Julia Roberts asks Oliver Platt to help her with oxygen.  He hands her the same small mask they used the first time ie. anaesthetic. Just for a second she has a look on her face which says "this is the wrong mask" and she tries to hide it with her hand. For the whole rest of the film, the other doctors use a bigger mask when giving oxygen. 10106 When Julia Roberts' father supposedly kills himself in the truck there is a golf ball size hole in the windshield. If he'd used a gun with large caliber the windshield would be destroyed and there would be hair, skull and brain on the windshield, not just blood.