The Lovely Bones (2009)

This film did a really good job of annoying me if that's a good thing, with a terrible ending and some never ending whispering to create suspense but when you think its stopped it just keeps going on with the whispering and again and again and again...


The story, is about a young teenage girl called Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) who lives a normal happy life with her family and is just beginning to experience the feelings of love but when she takes the shortcut home through the crops near her school she is murdered by her neighbour George Harvey (Stanley Tucci) Susie then ends up in the world of hereafter or as I like to call it never land where she struggles to except the truth and let go of what has happened. George Harvey thinking that he has got away with it he soon begins to feel like he can get back to normal routine with ease but unknowing that the urge for him to commit his crimes will soon return and will become the end of him.

The beginning of the film is quite good to be honest which sets the film up that it will be a crime, suspense thriller and it was great to see what is going through the criminals mind from how he soon crumbles to the point to when he will commit his next murder but its not long that the film decides to crumble itself with its overdone special effects with hereafter and the melodrama plot that the film decides to take feeling almost like a twilight film.


The actors do a good job to attempt to hold the film together , I would especially say Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci and Rachel Weisz do the best job in their roles in this film, even Susan Sarandon did an amusing job in this film but it didn't last long sadly to say. There probably one more good and only point of the film and would be that the world or the middle world of hereafter is very artistic and surreal but that also makes it its problem and doesn't do the film any favours whatsoever, the original book might be a work of fiction but the effects in the film almost drag it to a world of pointless fantasy.

The ending is probably one of the worst moments in the film, out of all the ideas it could of taken and what the film leading you to believe what will happen to which you think George Harvey will get what he deserves he gets deaf by icicle. I guess Peter Jackson decided to watch The Final Destination one day and thought how to piss us off like that film did to most people.

Overall a misleading, annoying and aggravating film which I will not even waste time writting a proper overall for it.