Sunday, January 31, 2010

Not so lovely-The Lovely Bones

It is a tragedy to watch a story that could have made a phenomenal movie be dragged down to make an abysmal collage of what could only be described as a director's wild fantasies, seriously what was the guy smoking?!

The story is that of a teenage girl who is murdered by a pedophile neighbor and how post-death she watches over, and helps her father's efforts to get to the truth-or that is what it is supposed to be according to the trailers. I went in expecting to see a gripping drama of a father's struggle with a little bit of supernatural help. But what unfolds instead, is a story that drags on without direction, it is as if the director could not decide whether he wanted a murder mystery, or a family drama, or a kids fantasy movie, there is a little bit of everything, leaving one with a sense of lack of completion on any front.

Verdict: One to avoid.

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