Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

jaredbergertx Extremis' handling of the subject of euthanasia is precise. It accurately shows the choices one's family would go through in this indescribably hard subject while also putting you in the mind of a family member. It is one of the few films that will derive an opinion from the view, regardless of their prejudice. My only criticism of the piece is that it overs no solution regardless of goal, which is not the fault of the filmmakers, rather the situation. In other words, perfect description of the global problem at hand.

Annika Lunde Arnesen OK, at first, I was gonna write "I have no words", but actually I have quite a few words.. This is by far the saddest, but also the most important documentary I've ever seen. I really appreciate good documentaries. After seeing this one, I just can't stop crying. This really got me thinking. 24 minutes of love, hope, pain and heartbreaking scenes. It's such an important topic. I believe and hope that this will help people see that life is fragile. This can happen to anyone. We need documentaries like this one.My thoughts go to all of the incredible persons in this project, and all of the people who goes trough the same.

Rodrigo Amaro So real and so viscerally hard yet compelling enough to make you feel immersed in what you're seeing. "Extremis" touches one of those hard topics we tend to avoid and hardly ever think about until it happens to us or to someone we know and care about and that is the decision one must do in order to save a family member who's dying or to pull the plug and let them go because there's nothing more that can be done. A short documentary following medical doctors, families and people at the saddening final moments. "Extremis" makes you think about those choices and gets all those different points of view of what to do, how to react and all the doubts that comes with it. The sick person can't do much to what's happening to them, the ones here all got tubes, equipment and such to help them breathe and continue to live in a deficient way. It all boils down to the talk the doctors must have with the family members, an extremely hard talk that follows with a more difficult decision. We follow three or four cases, and people with better understanding in medicine will get it better the patients conditions since the film doesn't establish all that much, already cutting to what's going on and what's need to be done. In a way, it was very good they did that because all we need to know is that the patients will live though not in proper conditions and their relatives are the ones who can understand all the pain that goes through, all the caring they do and if they find appropriate to continue treatment or relieve their loved ones from more suffering. As someone who've always seen through the sick/dying one perspective, this is was truly something new to me, it made me reflect to how certain I could be in making an important decision concerning a person I loved, things that, unfortunately, they won't respond or say anything unless stated in previous talks - and that's the one we tend to avoid while going on living...cause death is for the later.A commendable work though very sad to watch. What concerns me about the project is the thin line between what is exactly real and what is staged (if there is something like that, I mean, there were times I thought it was all acting). With a longer time, it'd be interesting for us in the audience to get everyone involved, backgrounds from families and the concerned doctors, just little things that'd make this a lot better. 8/10

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Extremis" is a 24-minute documentary short from this year that managed to score some awards attention already. It was made by Oscar nominee Dan Krauss and takes a look at the professional lives of those who have to deal with extremely sick or even dying patients. I am not sure to what extent some of the scenes were staged in here or if it is tasteful to decide from the relatives of the dying that their suffering (the patients') is depicted in this documentary, but they need to decide for themselves. Euthanasia is also a subject here, but it is really more about living with the sick and trying to help them. This is the main message of this little movie. We also see the doctors' and nurses' emotional struggles because it is obviously a very tough job. This is all there is about this one here. It is nothing groundbreaking or something we really haven't seen before or it also does not teach anything new from the medical or sociological perspective, but it succeeds for what it is: the emotional approach. I recommend the watch. Thumsb up.