Review, After. Life:

I rented the movie After Life the other night (thank you redbox) and I have mixed feelings about this movie. I remember seeing the preview for this movie and I was really excited to see it cause it looked really good but it kinda fell flat for me, don't get me wrong it was a really good movie but it didn't turn out as good as I thought it would. It was the type of movie that they make look really good in the trailer but the whole entire movie doesn't hold up to the expectations. I understand that they need to put a lot of the good parts into the trailer to make the movie look good so people will want to see it but they need to keep a lot of the good parts in the actual movie so it doesn't suck and people wont be pissed cause the trailer was misleading.

Now this movie didn't turn out as bad as that but it wasn't perfect. After Life is about a girl Anna Taylor a school teacher played by Christina Ricci living with her boyfriend Paul Coleman played by Justin Long. He's such a weird guy, there's something about him that just bothers me. The movie starts out with them doin' the nasty and I suddenly felt awkward cause Anna wasn't into it as much as you would think someone should be. They end up fighting about how she's not into it like she use to, apparently that offended him. Anna heads off to work where in her class room there's two big kids picking on a little kid named Jack so Anna breaks up the fight and begins to talk about funerals to Jack. Anna goes to the funeral of her relative and that's where the funeral home director Eliot Deacon See's Anna for the first time. After the funeral Anna heads to a restaurant to meet Paul for dinner, they order their meals and Paul begins to tell her how he feels and she freaks cause he thinks Paul is going to dump her when he really was going to propose to her. Maybe if you don't freak out and wait for him to finish what he was going to say you would know that he wants to marry you and not dump you.

She storms off and drives away all pissed crying her eyes out and she ends up getting in a car crash. She wakes up confused at where she is and ask where is she and Eliot tells her that she's in the funeral home , she got in a car crash and she died. Anna tries desperately to tell him that she's not dead and she's alive but he keeps telling her that she's in denial and everyone goes through that stage before they accept that their really dead. Through out the movie Anna tries to escape the funeral home but that doesn't work cause she's "dead". Jack keeps showing up to the funeral home and talking to Eliot since his teacher dying sparked his interest in death. I think we have a necrophiliac in the making. After a long time of fighting Anna finally accepts the fact that she's dead and Eliot gets her ready for her funeral. She ask if she can see herself one last time and he gives her a mirror and she breaths out and notices her breath on the mirror and realizes that if she's REALLy dead there wouldn't be any breath on the mirror and she cries out "you lied to me! You lied to me!" Eliot grabs the mirror and tells her that she's dead and she needs to stop telling herself other wise and then he injects some medicine into her which paralyzes her and slows down her heart rate and makes her look as though she was really dead.

After the funeral Paul Anna's boyfriend is convinced that she's not dead and rushes to the cemetery to dig her up but he ends up getting in a crash, stupid idiots! When it's bad weather don't speed and pay attention to the road or you are going to get in a car crash and you will die. He wakes up to find himself in the funeral home with Eliot telling him that he's dead and guess who is with Eliot helping him with his job??? You guessed it, Jack is there helping him with everything cause it looks like Eliot brained washed him into thinking that the dead talk to him and they always try to go on telling them that their not dead, then the movie is over. I liked the movie but it wasn't as good as I thought. Nothing bad but also nothing great.

I give this movie 4 out of 5 Skulls.