Thanks for the memories!

A Masterpiece!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Schoolteacher Anna Taylor gets into a car accident shortly after getting into an argument with her 'almost fiance'. When she wakes up, she is in a funeral home, where the director tells her that she is dead and in transition to the afterlife. She tells him that there must be a mistake because she is awake and talking to him, to which he explains that he has a gift to communicate with the deceased. I enjoyed the premise of this movie, but there were some flaws. The movie lacked backbone, in which it had very little to support the overall theme of the flim. In the first place, there were a lot of things that were irrelevant/unnecessary to the plot that didn't really make sense anyways. ie the lights in the school in the beginning, the bobblehead etc. If I look at it logically, if I woke up in a funeral home and someone told me I was dead, obviously I would think they're insane. No one would be able to convince me that I was dead at all, especially given that I could manipulate objects, move around, make noise or see my own reflection. As soon as Liam Neeson opened the door to let me leave, I would leave, regardless of any vision or dream I have. Also when she managed to get the front door open and saw him pulling in out front, i would just run to the back of the building and break a window and get out that way. I think the film aims to be ambiguous without really achieving such, given that it's quite obvious she is alive. He was injecting her with the hydrogen bromide the entire time to keep her still, she could stand up, throw things, see her reflection. Her breath was present on the mirror, which he quickly wiped away before she could see, and when she saw her breath in the casket, she panicked and therefore he felt it necessary to drug her more. Also the uneasy looks across Liam Neeson's face all throughout the film, as when the police arrive. And what normal, non-psychopathic person would tell the fiance to go dig her up just after her funeral, especially if she had really been dead. The white van chased her on the highway and caused the crash, because he believed she wasn't worthy of being alive. He must have given her the hydrogen bromide before the paramedics arrived to slow her heart rate, so the coroner could pronounce her dead. Same deal with her boyfriend. And he flat out tells the kid that he's doing this, "I'm the only one who can see the corpses walking around stealing oxygen from people who actually want to be alive, I have to bury them all". The kid saw the teacher in the window, so the director tells him he has this gift, and offers to teach him so that the kid can one day continue his psychotic work. And the scratching on the casket after she's buried, like come on. Maybe i'm missing something, or I'm not thinking outside the box, but you can't tell me she's dead. Great job casting Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci, meh for Justin Long. If the film had more direction as to where it was going, and left out some of the unneccessary scenes, it would've been great.

like many other horrors. but in its case the motif is little more complex. because it is a challenge to viewer.more than a psychological one.it is a demand. to choose the right version of story. for define the truth out of ambiguous elements. in same measure, it is the film of Liam Neeson who propose his character as a form of oracle. a film about reality and appearances. and about happiness. seductive for cinematography and, maybe , for the memories about Justin Long and Christina Ricci performances in same genre movies. fascinating and mysterious, example of inspired cinematography and dialogue, it is a form of challenge as trip inside the viewer life. good support for reflection. and one of splendid roles of Liam Neeson.

Or is it "turbid"? I think in this case, both apply. The pace is nothing short of funereal. What is the underlying theme here? Is it a horror flick? A heavy philosophical treatise on the meaning of life and death? Did anyone really know? It's not clear whether the writer ever had a grip on things and watched it get lost in the film's execution, or whether it remained this muddled at every stage. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when this idea was pitched. How was Liam Neeson corralled into participating in this unfocused mess? It really is, as one reviewer suggested, a episode of Twilight Zone that runs three times normal length and compensates by showing us lots of Ms. Ricci's flesh. She's lovely, but I'm not sure she's worth that extra hour.

I watched this in a kind of morbid sense of dread way. I have always found the notion of how the professionals handle and deal with the dead very upsetting. The idea of someone stripping and handling and generally disposing of a body and all the associated indignities truly repulses me. I found the nudity of Christina Ricci a little exploitative it could have been more balanced with the character of Justin Long being similarly exposed. Also I found some of the lines that the young boy is involved with a little distasteful. I don't really think it will do a lot for that young child to have to deal with the grim and harsh realities of death so graphically. I was always a little concerned with the plots of "two and a half men" and the ugly sleazy aspects that the youngster had to deal with, and now as an adult he has discussed that it did have a detrimental affect on him. The film in it's way is fascinating, but not for the faint hearted or overly sensitive.