AFTER.LIFE: DON'T BE SWAYED BY AN ALL STAR CAST

Eliot Deacon: I thought you were different.

You all say you're scared of death, but the truth is you're more scared of life.

Thank you Redbox! I love only spending a dollar on films that turn out really bad. This was one of them. Christina Ricci plays a schoolteacher who is having trouble trusting the boyfriend (Justin Long) who wants to marry her. After an argument, she gets in a car accident and "wakes up" in the morgue of a local funeral home. It is there that mortician Elliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) spends the rest of the movie convincing her that she is indeed dead and prepares her for her funeral. The whole movie just about centers on this theme of living life and how life is wasted and it is only at the end that our worst suspicions are confirmed and the film takes on more of a horror film air. Ricci practically sleepwalks through this film except that she over acts and one doesn't counter the other. Neeson is misplaced and how they got him to do this is beyond me. Long I don't care much about but he over did it just as much as everyone else. This was just a plain bad film. Thank you Redbox!

WRIST CUTTERS

WRISTCUTTERS DARK EXISTENTIAL LOVE STORY
Welcome to the land of the dead, or more precisely, the land of those who have killed themselves. Needless to say this is a very dark comedy. It is an "indie" film and the cast is mildly recognisable. Patrick Fugit (Who was great in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous) played the lead role of Zia. The lead actress, beautiful Shannyn Sossamon as Mikal coincidentally played a character from the bland film, Rules of Attraction, who suicides in perhaps the most graphic of suicide scenes. There is potential here for a great expressive film but it is just one one razor blade short of a pack of razor blades. It tries to address the theories on life after death, but it's almost too deep for its own good. When I thought I understood the symbolism and meaning of the plot and characters I was turned upside down and then everything looked pretty silly. It was an interesting story but after a while of not finding a traceable plot, I lost interest.
NOT a pick: Interesting but also tiresome. I might see it again for a dollar.