The Lovely Bones: Questionable Vision of Afterlife
posted by Kim Voynar on Movie City News:
Thanks largely to a brave, raw performance by Saiorse Ronan, the film version of The Lovely Bones isn’t intolerably hard to watch, and may even end up being a successful sale to same teen market that’s been flocking to darker, moodier fare like the Twilight series...
… The biggest turn-off for me about the film was Jackson’s vision of Susie’s afterlife, which seemed to cull very heavily from What Dreams May Come with its vivid, saturated colors and slow-mo floating leaves and such surrounding Susie as she stares in wonderment at where she’s ended up.