I watched After.Life recently. I did not care for it. at. all.

What I expected was a thriller where Justin Long swooped in at the last minute to save the girl (Christina Ricci) from the bad guy (Liam Neeson).

What I got was a completely depressing movie. The saga begins its downhill spiral when Justin is trying to propose to Christina and she keeps interrupting him and saying he’s dumping her. UGH! She drives off in a huff and ends up having a car accident. Still predictable if a little frustraing. She turns up at the funeral home where Liam is trying to convince her she’s dead.
So I figure, either she’s dead. no harm no foul, Liam’s a little creepy, but the harm is done.
or b. she’s alive and we’ve got about an hour and half for Justin to cowboy up.

She wasn’t dead and Justin managed to NOT save her. She realizes she’s alive RIGHT before Liam gives her a paralytic so she’ll look dead at her funeral and wake up already buried alive. nice.

In addition to that, Liam tells drunk Justin that she was buried alive (as suspected) and he proceeds to drive drunk and end up on Liam Neeson’s table getting stabbed in the lung. really?!?

In addition to THAT, Liam convinces one of Christina’s young students that saw her alive in a window that he can see dead people and that he needs to assist Liam help people go into the light, so now we’ve got a new mini-psycho running around. super.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, Liam had given her a chance to walk out of his crazy house, but she thought she was dead (courtesy of some funk zombie mirror Liam had) so she doesn’t go and says it is easier to be dead. Liam evidently has some thoughts that people are stuck in rutts like walking dead anyway and he’s just putting them out of their misery. come on! This made me wish for a simple ax murderer! I don’t want a live your life to the fullest lecture in the middle of my thriller! Justin should have planted a crow bar in Liam’s forehead….or used the lung puncture thingy on him or at the very least drive your car through his front door. WHERE is the kid from Live Free or Die Hard? Let’s be honest; I could have been a huge fan of this movie because it was really well done and Justin Long is cute and all the naked CR totally motivated me to do my Jillian workout video. BUT, I cannot get behind a movie with a craptastic ending! Next time, I see a movie written by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo & Paul Vosloo & Jakub Korolczuk, I’m going to pass.