Monday 17 October 2011

After.Life (2009) 6/10

Starring : Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long
Director : Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Running Time : 103 mins

Following a terrible car accident, Anna Taylor (Ricci) wakes up in a funeral home where she is informed by an apparently psychic funeral director, Eliot Duncan (Neeson), that she has died. She appears to be trapped in the home, and finds herself having to face the fact that she is no longer alive, but her boyfriend Paul Coleman (Long) suspects that something it going on at the home and decides to investigate.

This is a tricky movie that is probably too ambiguous for its own good. The concept of whether or not Ricci is dead is a tricky one to achieve, and in many ways the double-bluff ending goes towards spoiling this effect, though if you look at it as a potential triple bluff ending then the effect is just as workable. There is a little too much filler in this movie which could have been shorter, but fans of Ricci will enjoy seeing her with her kit off.

You’ll like this if you liked : Awake



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