Pripri99
Maybe I expected too much after seeing the cast. Maybe the trailer put my hopes up. Maybe the good reactions influenced me. Maybe. But the end result was quite disappointing.
Story:
I waited for the big twist. I waited for the plot to develop. Till the last scene, I was still waiting. But there was nothing. Nothing big or surprising really happened. There was nothing to question, to look forward to. There was no plot. thus, there was no plot hole just unanswered questions and random facts never explained.
The story was really the biggest let down because there was so much room for so much stuff to happen but nothing happened. I felt like a documentary moving from 1 trial to the next, one place to the next. the movie explained us the process of the afterlife and it didn't seem as challenging as it sounded.
Characters:
Every single "character" was flat, empty. As a viewer, there was no one you could get attached too. Honestly, I don't even know how to judge the acting as there was no characters to begin with. There were scene where characters were crying but I didn't even understand why they were sad. I felt so detached from the whole thing. There 1 scene I found touching but the building up leading to it was bad so it ended up expected and not so moving. The whole movie, I felt like the directing was more to blame than the acting (I am biased tho).
The trials were inconsequential. Everything was "building up" to the last one but again the building up part was severely lacking.
Overall:
However, one interesting thing is that I managed to finish the movie without feeling too forced. When I think back, the movie had all elements to make it really boring and long but still I watched it till the end without felling too annoyed. If I were to make a comparison, I would say that this movie is like a gift. A gift wrapped inside various layer of boxes. Each boxes is wrapped with a very pretty wrapping paper. As you move from one box to the next, the paper keep getting prettier and you expect a really good gift since the paper is so beautiful. But the last box is actually empty. The background of the movie was really beautiful, there were flashy (and useless) fighting scene but there was no heart, no plot, no characters, no gift.
Story:
I waited for the big twist. I waited for the plot to develop. Till the last scene, I was still waiting. But there was nothing. Nothing big or surprising really happened. There was nothing to question, to look forward to. There was no plot. thus, there was no plot hole just unanswered questions and random facts never explained.
The story was really the biggest let down because there was so much room for so much stuff to happen but nothing happened. I felt like a documentary moving from 1 trial to the next, one place to the next. the movie explained us the process of the afterlife and it didn't seem as challenging as it sounded.
Characters:
Every single "character" was flat, empty. As a viewer, there was no one you could get attached too. Honestly, I don't even know how to judge the acting as there was no characters to begin with. There were scene where characters were crying but I didn't even understand why they were sad. I felt so detached from the whole thing. There 1 scene I found touching but the building up leading to it was bad so it ended up expected and not so moving. The whole movie, I felt like the directing was more to blame than the acting (I am biased tho).
The trials were inconsequential. Everything was "building up" to the last one but again the building up part was severely lacking.
Overall:
However, one interesting thing is that I managed to finish the movie without feeling too forced. When I think back, the movie had all elements to make it really boring and long but still I watched it till the end without felling too annoyed. If I were to make a comparison, I would say that this movie is like a gift. A gift wrapped inside various layer of boxes. Each boxes is wrapped with a very pretty wrapping paper. As you move from one box to the next, the paper keep getting prettier and you expect a really good gift since the paper is so beautiful. But the last box is actually empty. The background of the movie was really beautiful, there were flashy (and useless) fighting scene but there was no heart, no plot, no characters, no gift.
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