2.5/5

A supernatural thriller centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways.

ok i had a lot of sky high expectations from this movie because Clint Eastwood Directed it, an unusual movie from this director, very different one and i think that was the reason this movie was not that good. i am not saying it was bad or below average, its slightly above average but not very good. i am a bit disappointed in this movie it could have been much better but it is what it is what else can i say. a very slow moving psychological supernatural drama, character driven one. it gets kind of tiring to watch. very depressing and somehow empty too. but still i am rating it 3 stars.

well the direction was average could have been much better, ofcourse. screenplay stumbles alot badly. had many problems but i am still over rating it with 3 stars. cinematography is brilliant ok seriously i am rating it 2.5. finally.

i will say the opening scene is outstanding, wow, the Tsunami scene was outstanding. acting was below average. not much to say so thats it. Avoid this movie. WASTE OF TALENT Mr Eastwood.

On the way home from seeing this terrific movie, I stopped at a light, a few cars in front waiting to turn right. Around us, the sun had just set, a full white moon was high and the reflections of brake lights bounced off gas stations and car dealerships.

What an amazing world we live in. There is so much in the five miles between my house and the theater where I saw the movie that I could never experience it all. Moments arrive and disappear and the the people shift, move, appear and disappear.

I think most of us need some kind of assurance that it all goes on forever, that our open windows aren't just blacked over and sealed at death.

Clint Eastwood has made a quiet, reflective, thoughtful film on this condition, this need for forever. It's not a flashy paranormal probe of ghosts and goblins, spirits and such.

Taking three central lives we see our need for a hereafter from a French woman who has experienced something before being revived, from a twin boy who has lost his brother and from a lonely man who seems able to capture something from beyond this life. Or perhaps he just captures something from those who come to him.

Cecile De France is stunning as a television reporter who touches her own death and returns. Frankie (or is it George) McLaren is good as the young boy. And Matt Damon's restrained performance is a revelation.

Eastwood has the assured hand that allows long segments in French with English subtitles and a juncture with two disasters and such a touchy-feely subject, and yet it works. Quietly. Thoughtfully.

He also has the good sense to let us draw our own conclusions.