Lovely Bones

We went to see "The Lovely Bones" a couple of days ago.  It's been a while since we've seen a big box-office drawcard, and I suppose this was one of them.  It certainly would have cost a pretty penny to make.  As is usual we watched until the end of the credits and were naturally the only two audience members in the cinema.  There was a staff member still there packing up rubbish left behind by the patrons too lazy to take the stuff to the bin themselves.  Quite a few of them, I note.

The movie was, basically, nothing to write home about.  It was ostensibly about what happens after death, but the post-death episodes were so stylised that nothing could really be concluded from them.  I'm not sure why I expected a movie to have inside knowledge about post-death experiences anyway!  There was a fantastic opportunity to present some pretty weird special effects in these scenes, and Peter Jackson definitely took advantage of this.

There was a suspenseful story of a murder presented, but it wasn't actually solved by the police!  It took someone else to do that, someone who you'd least expect to, really.  And there was a final retribution and resolution so the movie did at least leave us with a sense of closure.  However if you're looking for it as an answer to "what happens after death?" I think you'll be sadly disappointed.