Unfortunately the plot is full of interesting ideas thrown together with no internal logic, so that the story is just dumb.
Just one example - (may contain spoilers if you have not read any of the other reviews.) Towards the end Arquette's character suggests to the audience that they are wrong to try and believe in some other life and that what if there is only this and shouldn't we live for it.
A fine and noble thought - but hardly likely to be voiced by a character that is in herself providing proof that there is something more. Since she has discovered that she is getting true messages from beyond, she would be far more likely to say at this stage that maybe once it was all an act but now she is compelled to believe in a next life ...
And then at the end she sits in a chair and disappears .., so if she was a ghost why the hell was she doing the act for her father and getting upset by it and worried about their money... not to mention screwing around ... Or was she just a regular human vulnerable girl for most of the movie (and this acted brilliantly) and then transformed suddenly into a ghost in that chair, or did she suddenly learn teleportation ...
Fuzzy, insultingly sloppy thinking ruins what could have been a really good movie.
Just one example - (may contain spoilers if you have not read any of the other reviews.) Towards the end Arquette's character suggests to the audience that they are wrong to try and believe in some other life and that what if there is only this and shouldn't we live for it.
A fine and noble thought - but hardly likely to be voiced by a character that is in herself providing proof that there is something more. Since she has discovered that she is getting true messages from beyond, she would be far more likely to say at this stage that maybe once it was all an act but now she is compelled to believe in a next life ...
And then at the end she sits in a chair and disappears .., so if she was a ghost why the hell was she doing the act for her father and getting upset by it and worried about their money... not to mention screwing around ... Or was she just a regular human vulnerable girl for most of the movie (and this acted brilliantly) and then transformed suddenly into a ghost in that chair, or did she suddenly learn teleportation ...
Fuzzy, insultingly sloppy thinking ruins what could have been a really good movie.