Review: Hereafter

Matt Damon is George.

George works in a factory.. eats alone every night.. is taking a cooking class.. and has a brother Billy who sees him as a money making tool.

Why?

Well, seems as though George has a very high fever as a child which in some convoluted way, left him psychic.

Yea, he talks to dead people.

Only George doesn't like talking to dead people so he refuses to do it..  he thinks that making a living talking to the dead isn't really living.

Um. Ok.

Then there's Molly, a French television news reporter who had a near death experience when caught in a tsunami. Molly doesn't have her "news edge" any longer so she is told to take a few weeks off to write a book (really? HUH?).. What does she write about? Yea.. the hereafter.

Marcus is a little London boy who's twin brother dies after being hit by a car. Since his mother is some screwed up junkie, England's version of CPS puts him in foster care. He spends his time searching the internet and going to fake psychics to talk to his brother one last time.

Do you see where this is going?

Yea.. but um.. it never got there.

At 122 minutes long, NOTHING happens in this movie until the last 10 minutes.. which really should have been the FIRST ten minutes. I really didn't believe that there could be a movie that was more boring that Buried but this one surpasses it.

And note to the film maker? If you're going to have the parts centered around Molly spoken in French and subtitled English then you better make damn sure the movie is compelling enough to keep the audience awake so that they'll actually READ the subtitles.

I was soooo bored out of my mind that reading them almost put me to sleep. Rather, brought me closer to sleep.

There was absolutely no freakin' point to this movie and not only wouldn't I recommend it.. I'd even go so far as to suggest you use the DVD version to scrape dried food from your microwave!