Just *what* is this film, actually?. It's a sort of "Mystic River" meets "Alice in Wonderland". Some scenes are quite disturbing as if from a Harvey Keitel cum James Gandolfini sadistic duet movie, along with some Disney-like "life is beautiful" ad. Everything in this movie is wasted: Beautiful (and great actress)Rachel Weisz could have been a Ms. John Doe here...; monkey-faced Whaldberg keeps on confirming he cannot act!; the actress playing Susie Salmon is very pretty, and lovely and good actress...however she can't do much with such an awkward and erratic script. Whenever we are drawn to (finally!...) a detectivish thriller, we are next deviated (with no reason at all) to "wonderland". I even consider this film to be perverse as it toys with the idea of a teen girl being kidnapped, eventually raped and later killed, along with the overused cliché of magical "in-between-life-and-death" people communicating with the alive. Some scenes look like coming from any youngster playing with software such as Paint and Photoshop...Oniric scenes mixed with real-life deal disturbing police scenes. I just don't get it!. Where are people going when they even nominate an erratic film as this?
Review of The Lovely Bones
