I had not read the book, so all I had to go on was IMDb and the buzz. I was severely disappointed.
While I like the basic premise of this story, the execution was flawed. It just felt long, and each commercial break just added to my frustration. The dialog was cringe worthy in some instances, and the message wasn't all too clear in the second half of the movie.
This sort of meandering plot-line works well in novel form, but utterly fails in translation to cinematic form; I just felt bored and ultimately stopped caring.
What could have been an excellent movie about self discovery in the afterlife, and finding purpose in the short time that we have here was instead bloated and painfully long.
While I like the basic premise of this story, the execution was flawed. It just felt long, and each commercial break just added to my frustration. The dialog was cringe worthy in some instances, and the message wasn't all too clear in the second half of the movie.
This sort of meandering plot-line works well in novel form, but utterly fails in translation to cinematic form; I just felt bored and ultimately stopped caring.
What could have been an excellent movie about self discovery in the afterlife, and finding purpose in the short time that we have here was instead bloated and painfully long.