ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Paul Kydd Available on Blu-ray Disc (Region B)USA 2009 English (Colour); Horror/Thriller/Drama (Anchor Bay/Lleju/Plum/Constellation); 103 minutes (15 certificate)Crew includes: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo (Director); Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Paul Vosloo, Jakub Korolczuk (Screenwriters); Brad Michael Gilbert, William O. Perkins III, Celine Rattray (Producers); Cooper Richey, Pamela Hirsch, Galt Niederhoffer, Catherine Kellner, Edwin L. Marshall, James Swisher (Executive Producers); Anastas Michos (Cinematographer); Ford Wheeler (Production Designer); Niven Howie (Editor); Paul Haslinger (Composer)Cast includes: Christina Ricci (Anna Taylor), Liam Neeson (Eliot Deacon), Justin Long (Paul Coleman), Chandler Canterbury (Jack), Celia Weston (Beatrice Taylor), Josh Charles (Tom Peterson), Shuler Hensley (Vincent Miller)"How can you save yourself if you're already dead?"A discontented schoolteacher (Ricci) wakes up immobile following a serious car accident, to be told by the solemn undertaker who is preparing her body (Neeson) that she is dead and is being helped to cross over to the afterlife, but her grieving boyfriend (Long) will not accept her death and confronts the mortician.Beautifully shot supernatural horror, with a striking prominence of the colour red (Ricci spends much of the movie in just a red slip, or naked), with Neeson bringing an ethereal gravitas to his role of the respectable and (apparently) kindly funeral director - or is he a serial killer?Subtle clues and an ambiguous ending enhance the mystery.Blu-ray Extras: Commentary, Featurette, Trailer. *** (6/10)

xposipx This movie began with some promise as the actors did a good job with what they were given. However, the plot becomes pretty silly over time and the more interesting story was related to the relationship between Ricci and Long's characters. If it focused on them for half of the film, I would have cared more about their outcomes. In addition, they wasted Nissen's talent and he was not the least bit creepy and was not believable at all. Like many modern movies, it lacks heart and character and the writing is poorly done.

sterlingfactory Anna, played by Christina Ricci, wakes up in the mortuary of the local funeral director, Liam Neeson. He tells her she's dead and he's preparing her body for her burial. What follows is thought-provoking and almost unbearably macabre. The actors were amazing, even Justin Long, and the directing stylish with a very distinctive look.This movie is not for everyone. People will either love it, or despise it with all their heart. But I'd recommend it to anyone who has a taste for dark humor and enjoys putting the pieces of the puzzle together over and over, long after the movie's ended. That said the movie never had a chance commercially. Combine the fact that most people are just going to find it unbearably weird with the fact that the ending is not tied up in a neat bow, and it's clear that this movie will stay underground. However, if you're looking for a beautiful experience with a unique film, After.Life is just about as good as it gets.

aceellaway2010 I watched this in a kind of morbid sense of dread way. I have always found the notion of how the professionals handle and deal with the dead very upsetting. The idea of someone stripping and handling and generally disposing of a body and all the associated indignities truly repulses me. I found the nudity of Christina Ricci a little exploitative it could have been more balanced with the character of Justin Long being similarly exposed. Also I found some of the lines that the young boy is involved with a little distasteful. I don't really think it will do a lot for that young child to have to deal with the grim and harsh realities of death so graphically. I was always a little concerned with the plots of "two and a half men" and the ugly sleazy aspects that the youngster had to deal with, and now as an adult he has discussed that it did have a detrimental affect on him. The film in it's way is fascinating, but not for the faint hearted or overly sensitive.