I love this movie so much

Undescribable Perfection

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I thought that this was an excellent film. I couldn't get it out of my mind for days. The descriptive blurb does not do it justice perhaps making it sound like a sentimental formulaic chick-flick. Which it is not. It is in turns buoyant and sad and links tragically to the death of teenagers. If it hits any discordant notes for you, just keep watching. The production and the acting are , as will be revealed, pretty faultless. You may find that the film continues in your mind after The End. And you could start having your own "flashbacks" as you start to explain it in your own way. However, it is not one of of those irritating endings where the film just stops because they ran out of ideas or money. You have been brought to a definite end and you have to review the process that brought you there.

you've seen the basic plot; young uma hears from pal he's going to bring guns and shoot people; she doesn't say anything; after endlessly long shots of computers, very, very slowly panning down to desk, ponderously down the chairs, finally to the floor, we discover- after machine guns and screams, that there are people dead; finally corned, uma gives up her best friend when the but says which one will i kill (someone watched sophie's choice); so back and forth we go, young uma, mom uma, and for some reason countless shots of diving into a pool and watching the hair flow in the water; there is a lot of that who knows why; but mainly who would you possibly be interested in in theis movie? there are no minor characters developed; uma's teenage pal is an airhead, young uma not much better, and as gorn up torments everyone around her because she said kill my friend not me; this is someone you care about? specially as it is the obvious basis for the movie and dragged out in endless flashbacks until the end of the movie- as if you couldn't see it coming in the first 10 minutes, a la back to that scene rerunning five more words of dialogue each time until... yes, we knew that long, long ago; faux near ending being that uma recalls that she was the one shot- leaving viewer to think 1. if the movie is all not true and uma was really shot, then how come uma the mom exists and why doid we have to watch the lie? or, 2. uma to cope pretends she was shot, and... so what? overall- tedious, endless diving into pools with flowing hair, repetitive (many scenes shown 3 and 4 times), obvious, sophomoric

Earnest, manipulative, dull, horrible, cheap, lazy, trite, exploitative, shameful, feeble. This kind of toxic nonsense is the equivalent of narrative granola laced with Prozac and arsenic. The last time I felt this aggrieved by the egregious nonsense being peddled by writers and filmmakers was after a viewing of "Sliding Doors" when I encountered two teenage girls in tears at the death of so many real and imagined babies in that movie. Needless to say those girls thought "Sliding Doors" as wonderful a movie as most reviewers here seem to imagine "The Life Before Her Eyes" to be. I can't imagine what Uma Thurman imagined she was doing getting involved in this nonsense. Next time she wants to elicit an equivalent response from an audience all she needs to do is have some kittens die on her. She doesn't even have to throw in the rain sequences or the crushed flower trope. The worst thing about this movie - viewed belatedly on TV - is to have my new year so soiled by the experience that I've felt compelled to come on here and vent in the manner of some bitter teen. Come to think of it, maybe the Michael character had to sit through an equivalent movie before he was compelled to act. Truly awful.

As I was watching this movie, I kept wondering where it was going, but it took to the very end for me to figure out the kicker. The life she is living and with flashbacks to her teenage friendship and school relationships is merely an envisioned life. I life that hasn't and in this case won't happen. It is an ultimate play on that venerable phrase "seeing your life flash before your eyes". In this case the older Diana played by Uma Thurman is that life that flashes before the eyes of the younger Diana played by Evan Rachel Wood in the midst of a high school shooting just before being shot. I thought this revelation made the whole movie that much better and worse at the same time. It effectively desensitized some of the flashbacks to that tragedy and romanticized the rest of her "visualized" life. This was an interesting film only after the turn and rather boring and difficult to watch to get there. The acting was decent, the directing by Vadim Perelman was creative and I look forward to seeing his remake of the classic horror Poltergeist in 2011. Not a movie worth spending a lot of money on, but worth a look if your bored of action or comedy and need a decent if quirky drama.