Waste of time

How sad is this?

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

This is good movie. Great story line and delivery, good acting. Except for the woman playing Matt Damon's cooking class love interest. I didn't bother looking up her name. I hope to never see her again. Her empty personality while ending every sentence in a school girl giggle and whiny voice along with her emaciated face and body were exceptionally disturbing to the flow of the story and resulted in my uncharacteristic desire to see her character die a horrible death for being the whiny pushy person her character was. "Pleeeeaaseee" Oh, please. Anyway, other than this, the movie is truly good. I can never rewatch it simply for her role in it. Be prepared.

HEREAFTER is an intriguing supernatural drama from acclaimed director Clint Eastwood. This film ties together three varying plot strands into a satisfying whole. As a film it's a slow-moving and largely subtle character drama, exploring the effects of death upon three diverse characters. The first is a French woman who survives the Boxing Day tsunami in the film's hair-raising opening sequence, which in five minutes outdoes the whole of THE IMPOSSIBLE. The second is Matt Damon as a psychic struggling with his abilities. The third is a London schoolboy whose brother is killed in a car accident.I always feel uneasy about Hollywood productions like these as all too often they veer into mawkishness and sentimentality but for the most part Eastwood avoids those pitfalls. Instead, HEREAFTER feels realistic throughout and the exemplary direction helps that. The acting is the film's strongest element and if not much really happens by the end, you're so caught up in the lives of the characters, as hard as they are, that you don't really mind. It's hard to believe that Spielberg, the man behind CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, could executive produce a film like this.

Hereafter is a film that I would have never thought would be directed by Eastwood, not because he's not interested in great stories, but because of the nature of the story itself.Hereafter is a three-way approach to death and focuses on how three different characters experience it. The first is the French journalist Marie Lelay, who survives a tsunami, but hast a near death experience and sees the other side, an experience that leads to a career path. The second is an English boy who loses his eldest twin in a accident, shuts down and tries to find a medium to speak to him. Finally, the American worker recently made redundant George Lonegan is a serious medium since childhood; however, he considers his gift a curse because he connects with dead people every time he touches a person, something that impedes her having a normal relationship. Their stories are presented separately until the three characters end connecting and their stories intersecting and becoming one.Hereafter is a film that does not dwell on controversy, or perhaps it does by departing from the existence of the afterlife. However, it is not dogmatic about what the afterlife is, it focuses mostly on how different people experience, see, imagine or think death and what lies beyond.The acting is solid and convincing, subtle but believable. Viewers come to empathize with the three characters, get to know them well, and develop a relationship with them. The narrative is certainly not innovative or original, but it works well because the character's stories and experiences are quite different. Certainly, the first 40 minutes are painfully slow because, until a certain point, the stories seem not to be leading anywhere. That is what I liked the least in the film. On the positive side, those minutes are the foundation of our understanding of the three characters. Yet, because the story spent so much time there, the last part of the movie, which is the most interesting, are hurried.I loved the music, most of it composed by Eastwood himself.I really enjoyed this emotive and touching story. And the ending was really sweet.

We all deal with death, with our loved ones with friends and finally we face it for ourselves. On the face of it, many people would say it is final. However, there are those of us who believe and wonder what it is really like. If only we could have a peek at what is waiting. This book deals with three people who are dealing with death. The man has the ability to see beyond the wall and bring back stories from the dead. The woman, a talented, no nonsense French investigative reporter who is almost drowned in the Indonesian Tsunami but is rescued from drowning by two rescue workers combing the beach on that dreadful day looking for those who might still have life in them. The third person is a young (11 or 12) boy who loses his identical twin in a violent accident. The child having shared every moment, even the womb, with his brother wants to speak to him one more time and find out how and why he is still alive when his brother is dead. He hears about Matt Damon's character and finally breaks through the seer's resistance and gets some answers to help him go forward with his life. The writer meets Damon and feels an immediate bond with someone who understands her experiences "something" which can't be explained. I would recommend this film. The acting is wonderful and the directing is great. I felt each person who worked on this film had a stake in presenting the facts of these "life after death" situations..