This movie began with some promise as the actors did a good job with what they were given. However, the plot becomes pretty silly over time and the more interesting story was related to the relationship between Ricci and Long's characters. If it focused on them for half of the film, I would have cared more about their outcomes. In addition, they wasted Nissen's talent and he was not the least bit creepy and was not believable at all. Like many modern movies, it lacks heart and character and the writing is poorly done.

Or is it "turbid"? I think in this case, both apply. The pace is nothing short of funereal. What is the underlying theme here? Is it a horror flick? A heavy philosophical treatise on the meaning of life and death? Did anyone really know? It's not clear whether the writer ever had a grip on things and watched it get lost in the film's execution, or whether it remained this muddled at every stage. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when this idea was pitched. How was Liam Neeson corralled into participating in this unfocused mess? It really is, as one reviewer suggested, a episode of Twilight Zone that runs three times normal length and compensates by showing us lots of Ms. Ricci's flesh. She's lovely, but I'm not sure she's worth that extra hour.

There's a semi-decent premise lurking somewhere in the depths of AFTER.LIFE but unfortunately it never really rises to the fore. Instead what we're left with is an entirely nondescript film in which very little happens indeed. There's a lot of mood stuff, a lot of atmosphere setting, and plenty of plot points which end up going nowhere, but as a film, AFTER.LIFE is a disappointment.The acceptable Christina Ricci stars as a young woman involved in a car accident who wakes up on a mortuary table, being attended to by the sinister Liam Neeson. Now, is she really dead and unable to accept the truth about her condition, or is Neeson a psychotic serial killer who enjoys making his victims think they've reached the afterlife? The film never really tells you which is true, providing enough evidence to support either explanation, and by the end you don't really care anyway.Ricci is quite good in this film although not as good as she's been elsewhere, like BLACK SNAKE MOAN. To be fair, she doesn't have much to do other than wander around nude. Neeson plays it deadpan throughout and doesn't have a great deal to do either; you can tell this film was shot in just a few days. Justin Long, as the frustrated boyfriend, feels weak and out of his depth. AFTER.LIFE is more of an insipid mystery than a real horror film, and as such it's not really worth your time; the lack of explanation makes it an all-too-frustrating watch.

This was a mystery definitely.Anna dies in a car accident, it proves she caused the accident with her cell phone and chaotic emotions behind the wheel. While we did see his van that doesn't prove he killed her as it was a small town.She struggled with life and struggled with her death. How come every chance she could get away she never did.She had 3 days at the morgue with the mortician who was clarvioant and wanted to help her pass over.I saw he hd compassion in him yet was crazy. Notice the dead lady in the morgue who told her your not ready and when she walked outside on her last night there was a death sience.She couldn't leave. How could he prove in 3 days she was dead. Also maybe that stuff he injected kept the body from decomposing. Originally, I thought she was Alive but intil the signs especially the mirror and ghostly call to her boyfriend.So many signs. Also,I mean how could he manage to drive another, her boyfriend to death. Remember elliot told him after the wake ..hurry you don't have much time. He knew he was going to die because he's special (clairvoyant ). Yet..again crazy. A truly interesting movie.I cam to the conclusion the movie started out with her really being alive and he was trying to convince her she's dead but the director or actors started to see another side which became the mystery of whether she was dead or alive.