Starring: Matt Damon, Bryce Dallas-Howard, Cecile De France
Rated: Pg-13 for thematic elements including disturbing disaster and accident images, and for brief strong language.
There is life after death. God said so. But, more importantly, Clint Eastwood and Peter Morgan said so, as well. And it has nothing to do with Christianity, Islam, or anything other new age religion out there (their response to each is an eye roll.) They know because people have been there and experienced it.
Okay, well, actually they haven’t. I say that because, for starters, it’s just a movie, written by a guy and directed by another guy, with no real basis or sense of truth. But, to prove the point, even those who have been (or are) there in the story can’t describe it or explain it. With as strong of a belief of the supernatural as the movie Hereafter has, one would think it would try to explain things. At last, this movie doesn’t have much to say, on any level, really.
It doesn’t help that writer Peter Morgan is off with his trio of character plots that seems to cut away right when you actually start caring about a particular story. Or, Eastwood’s horrible miss direction, which displays the tsunami of 2004 more so as a Roland Emmerich thrill ride than an actual natural disaster. 230,000 people died in that, and yet we walk away from it’s depiction saying “that looked fun.” This is just the beginning. The performances, including Matt Damon’s, aren’t bad, but simply have nothing to work with. The only life in the movie was Bryce Dallas-Howard, whose performance is cut ever too short. The movie is bland and blunt, with a subtext so shallow a toddler could guess the clichés. Eastwood and Morgan believe in life after death, I just wish they would have added some life to their movie. Or some depth.
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