Based on some recommendations, I bought this film and made sure to get the director's cut because everyone says there is necessary info in it.
But skip this one and go straight to Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson in Dead Again if you want an overall better movie.
This plot was okay, but highly predictable in almost all respects EXCEPT I'll stipulate that there was at least one really gross moment (involves a tongue), one really freaky/scary moment (involves a wheelchair), and I didn't guess correctly who was the killer. Which elevates it above a lot of movies.
I still liked Dead Again better. Pamela Gidley was okay, but I couldn't get past her being the robot in Cherry 2000, the hero was okay but I think he is that same guy with Julia Roberts in Sleeping With the Enemy (kind of the poor movie's Brad Pitt) and the usually reliable Bill Pullman was kinda wasted here.
P.S. Okay, I'm going to go in-depth a bit here about why the hospital wheelchair scene was so freaky to me. This movie is about something very intense that happened in the past working itself out again in the present through mostly reincarnated people. However, some of the people in the present were alive when the original events happened and have a stake in seeing that the past remains covered up or perhaps still feel tremendous jealousy/rage etc. at the reincarnated characters although they don't know why.
The Store manager in the past was reincarnated as Nick (the store manager was in fact Nick's biological father and his soul apparently still felt a tremendous pull towards his pregnant wife even though (or perhaps because) they had a problematic relationship of infidelity and intense jealous rage) and the Blonde Rich woman was reincarnated as Jane.
Ah, but some of you may disagree because the blonde woman didn't die in the past, she only became completely brain dead in the higher functions although able to live with constant care and no need for a respirator due to no damage to her brain stem where the autonomic bodily funtions reside (breathing, regulation of heart rate, blood pressure etc.)
And that is why I found the scene where the brain dead blonde woman is in close proximity with Jane so disturbing. If her soul left her when her consciousness died (although her body lived on) and was reincarnated as Jane, then you have a soul-less brain dead body violently reacting involuntarily due to being near the soul it once had. I found that just freaky as all get out and something I had never seen in a reincarnation type movie before or since.
But skip this one and go straight to Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson in Dead Again if you want an overall better movie.
This plot was okay, but highly predictable in almost all respects EXCEPT I'll stipulate that there was at least one really gross moment (involves a tongue), one really freaky/scary moment (involves a wheelchair), and I didn't guess correctly who was the killer. Which elevates it above a lot of movies.
I still liked Dead Again better. Pamela Gidley was okay, but I couldn't get past her being the robot in Cherry 2000, the hero was okay but I think he is that same guy with Julia Roberts in Sleeping With the Enemy (kind of the poor movie's Brad Pitt) and the usually reliable Bill Pullman was kinda wasted here.
P.S. Okay, I'm going to go in-depth a bit here about why the hospital wheelchair scene was so freaky to me. This movie is about something very intense that happened in the past working itself out again in the present through mostly reincarnated people. However, some of the people in the present were alive when the original events happened and have a stake in seeing that the past remains covered up or perhaps still feel tremendous jealousy/rage etc. at the reincarnated characters although they don't know why.
The Store manager in the past was reincarnated as Nick (the store manager was in fact Nick's biological father and his soul apparently still felt a tremendous pull towards his pregnant wife even though (or perhaps because) they had a problematic relationship of infidelity and intense jealous rage) and the Blonde Rich woman was reincarnated as Jane.
Ah, but some of you may disagree because the blonde woman didn't die in the past, she only became completely brain dead in the higher functions although able to live with constant care and no need for a respirator due to no damage to her brain stem where the autonomic bodily funtions reside (breathing, regulation of heart rate, blood pressure etc.)
And that is why I found the scene where the brain dead blonde woman is in close proximity with Jane so disturbing. If her soul left her when her consciousness died (although her body lived on) and was reincarnated as Jane, then you have a soul-less brain dead body violently reacting involuntarily due to being near the soul it once had. I found that just freaky as all get out and something I had never seen in a reincarnation type movie before or since.