Hereafter

Much like his contemporary Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood is an older director who is not letting age slow him down and seems to be churning out a film a year.

Clint Eastwood is such an icon of film making. He has not only proven himself to be one of the best actors we have seen but he is also a brilliant director. It seems over the years he has been getting better and better. However he sometimes does not hit the mark. As I said Clint is a brilliant film maker but I just think that he was the wrong person to direct this film. Clint has a very old fashioned approach to the way he directs and this can be quite refreshing in this slick modern era, but I think that the slick modern approach was what this film needed. When you have films that have separate stories with a tenuous link it can be a problem where the stories don't quite mesh. They move at a slow pace and I got the feeling that they would have been better served if they were their own separate films. It is supposed to be about people who are affected by death but I did not get much of an emotional connection in that area.

Matt Damon is another one who is churning out a lot of films at the moment. By next week he will be in four films in release. In this one he gives a nice understated performance. Cecile DeFrance is good but I did not feel she emoted her problem of having had a near death experience. Frankie and George McLaren do an excellent job as the twins. I think kids can get a lot more sympathy than adults in these situations.

Not one of Clint's best films. A dreary look at death that would have been better served by having the stories only given a little screen time.