This film purports to explore the world of coma consciousness. I think it does this clumsily, unevenly, and long-windedly. It also claims to reveal some truths about medical fears and realities. I would say it's more like propaganda, and of the common variety. The film thinks it makes social commentary about "white people." In fact, it is base in its anger, almost a self-debasement. Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs even makes his famous Freddie "Boom Boom" Washingon tongue-wagging mug, as if to let us know this isn't real nor is it to be taken seriously. Therefore, the film becomes cantankerous, crotchety for being aware of its own pandering malaise. Yes, I am delving deep into pretentious criticism to criticize a pretentious film. The cast is affable and attractive, I'll say that. But this is a crashing bore. It teaches nothing, and those for whom it is supposed to feel vengeful will likely feel foolish.

It's not a typical jump out of your seat horror film. Some reviewers on IMDb have even said that Sublime isn't a horror film but that just isn't true. It's gory and blood soaked with killers and slashers but also has this completely twisted story that will leave you wondering what is coming next. The twist to the whole story is kind of predictable and yet you won't mind because the entire story is very unique and mind blowing with it's sheer twists. Nothing is as it seems and as much as some reviewers who really loved the film would like to make it seem so complex and deep it's actually pretty superficial. The plot unfolds at break neck speed and each point in the story leads you in a different direction. Mystery, extreme suspense, horror, blood, gore, a creepy hospital, twisted doctors, a sexy nurse, and a story of deception and making you afraid to ever have "routine" surgery. When all is said and done the film is a disturbing descent into one man's twisted nightmare.Thomas Cavanagh is very, very impressive as family man George Grieves who finds himself in strange, dark and twisted situation after being psyched up by family and friends about the danger of routine surgery. I only remember Cavanagh from the quirky TV dramedy Ed and this is from quirky or comedy. His character is quiet and kind of dark but happy in his family life. But the sheer terror he takes the viewer into is very impressive from his performance. Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs is equally as brilliant as the deranged and twisted Mandingo. He is the perfect "slasher-killer" for the film. His look and his voice and his performance is just brutally frightening. I would love to see him in this character again however unlikely that might be. Cas Anvar has a small role as Dr. Sharazi but I mention him because his character and his performance is subtly disturbing and there is something odd and complex about his character that fits the film and he does a good job. Katherine Cunningham-Eves brings new meaning to the "sexy" Nurse fantasy by being the only kind face and yet still manage to be twisted and disturbed.Any Horror fan should jump at the chance to check out this gem. It is totally off the wall and doesn't pretend to follow all the rules of the Horror Slasher or even psychological thriller formula. While director Tony Krantz is new to directing films like this he certainly has had experience as producer in a myriad of films and genres. His projects as of late have been a little obscure and his style fits this film to a T. Sublime isn't likely to blow you away but at the same time you won't be disappointed in watching it. You'll be intrigued and drawn in to the story. All the questions are answered, however strange the clues and the subsequent ending. See it for yourself and the haunting aura of the film will leave you smiling sublimely. 7.5/10

***MAJOR SPOILERS*** It's when well to do 40 year old George Grieves went to Abaddon Medical Facility to get a routine Colonoscopy that his greatest fears were soon to become realized. George was switched with a patient named Jorge Grieves for an operation-a Sympathectomy-to prevent sweating palms! That set off a number of horrifying events that had the poor man end up on life support!While in the hospital George started to conjure up fears that he kept hidden all his life that started to eventually put him into a vegetated state. George's fears of minorities, especially Afriacn/Americans, were directed on the male nurse who was administering his IV treatments a creepy looking guy named Mandingo. Mandingo becomes George's biggest nightmare in him thinking that his dislike of whites or WASPS, like himself, will come out in the open when he's alone with him in his hospital room.As George's mind becomes more and more paranoid it's his other major fear, besides Mandingo, of being misdiagnosed which in that case, by being true, turns out to be well founded. It also turns out that George had accidentally scraped his right leg on his wheelchair, as he was about to be operated on, that caused a major streptococcal, flesh eating bacteria, infection! It's that infection that eventually had George's leg become gangrenous and later be amputated!The way things are being played out in George's heavily sedated and confused mind he as well as us in the audience don't quite know what's real or unreal in the movie. The film "Sublime" seems to go in two different directions at the same time, the real and unreal world, making it almost impossible to follow. We know that both Mandingo and George's friend, a nurse at the hospital, Zoe are real in that we see them before he was operated on which caused him to lose his mind. It's later in the movie when everything goes haywire that the two Mandingo & Zoe, as well as everyone else in the film, change abruptly and for-in the case of the sneering and sadistic Mandingo-the absolute worse. It's that change as well as everything else that happens after that which keeps you guessing to what's really going on in the movie.We finally get to know what's the cause of George's strange and disturbing hallucinations at the very end of the film that ends up destroying both his mind and body. It's not his fear of not dying but living that's in fact really messing up George's very fragile mind! ***SPOILER*** With his grieving wife Jenny opting to keep her diagnosed brain dead husband on life-support George, either real or imagined, finally gets up enough courage to find out the truth about the dreams, of him falling but never hitting the ground, that have been haunting him all his life. It's then when George finally frees himself from the self-imposed hell that he, as well as the hospital personnel, put himself through! And it's then that George can finally, after the horrors he just lived through, be at peace with himself!

I watched this movie with a mate of mine at midday. We just wanted to stop it every five minutes and put the DVD in the bin. It made no sense, the story was rubbish, the acting was rubbish, the whole thing was rubbish till the last five minutes.WHAT A SHOCK.The whole thing started to make sense, we were sitting there trying to figure things out. I think one will understand this movie through his/her own perspective. Think you could take many messages from this movie on life, love and may other subjects.For me, this movie was all about coma, how our machines can tell us one thing, but what really goes on inside the human head when in coma is another matter and no machine will ever detect that.This movie's not about the acting or the directing, it's about the old debate; keep him on the life support machine or release him from his nightmare? What would you do if that person was someone close to you? Put greed aside, it's not about you and your loss, release them from the misery inside their heads. The sounds within the room causing and creating confusion inside his head. It all started to make sense to me and i do believe this is a great movie.