The Lovely Bones (2009)
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33% of critics liked it
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57% of users liked it
(350,669 ratings)
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf with a deceptively mundane appearance. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of… More Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf with a deceptively mundane appearance. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Rating, Runtime
- PG-13, 2 hr. 16 min.
- Directed By
- Peter Jackson
- Written By
- Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
- In Theaters
- Dec 11, 2009 Wide
- On DVD
- Apr 20, 2010
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Tom Charity, CNN.com
Jackson seems more at home in the afterlife than in this one, rendering this off-kilter project creepy and pretentious.
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Some books should stay between their covers, and The Lovely Bones may well be one of them.
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Tom Long, Detroit News
Understand, the film still has power, just not as much as it should.
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Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
The movie is often wise.
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Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
This is a distractingly busy movie, so in love with its own considerable craft that it can't stay still long enough for anything to settle in.
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Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
Jackson's grand, computer-generated vision of Susie's Dali-like "in between," while occasionally gorgeous, leaves the viewer feeling stuck between two worlds, too. The story suffers.
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Dave White, Movies.com
Your own peace will come after you walk out, trying hard not to laugh at how crazy-bad it all is.
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Fiona Williams, sbs.com.au
Unshackled by earthly restraints, Jackson shifts his Weta toolsets into overdrive in a more-is-more free-for-all frenzy.
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Joshua Starnes, ComingSoon.net
The Lovely Bones is probably a much better idea for a book than it is a movie, but it's still a very good one, and those don't come along too often.
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Simon Miraudo, Quickflix
The talented cast struggles with, and is eventually failed by, the material. They are not aided by their director either, who seemingly stood slightly off screen and urged them to 'act bigger!'
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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel, 3BlackChicks Review
I had a few bones to pick with the story.
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Ian Buckwalter, DCist
The film is such a misfire, such a disappointing collection of failed attempts at emotional affect and confounding storytelling choices, that it seems more like a bad director's attempt to rip off Jackson's style than his own work.
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Enrique Buchichio, Uruguay Total
No hay manera de tomarse en serio, al menos no en el marco de una película que debió ser perturbadora y conmovedora en partes iguales, la serie de momentos Kodak imposibles con que Peter Jackson intenta retratar la vida después de la muerte.
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Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze
Only Tucci's chilling, truly scarier than Hannibal Lechter psychopath holds the far too fanciful scenario together, bolted to planet earth as best he can.
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Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze
Only Tucci's chilling, truly scarier than Hannibal Lechter psychopath holds the far too fanciful scenario together, bolted to planet earth as best he can.
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Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
The whole plays better than that would suggest, largely due to Jackson's imagination and commanding skill.
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Marty Mapes, Movie Habit
Pet peeves and stylistic differences of opinion work against Heavenly Creatures director
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Sean Axmaker, MSN.com
For all the efforts of a fine cast, Jackson never gives his human drama the desperation and frustration it calls for...
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Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com
Interview with Rose McIver of The Lovely Bones: "It was terrifying to see [Stanley Tucci] transform on screen into someone so utterly different from himself."
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John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
While technically accomplished, exhibiting flashes of Jackson's idiosyncratic taste, it is frequently sentimental, softhearted, and diffuse. (Blu-ray Ediiton)
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Featured Audience Ratings
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Michael M
The performance of the lead child actress is great. The visuals are pretty good and yet they're very confusing as if they were taken out of a level from super mario galaxy. But that's all there is to it. And of course, Jackson is faithful as ever with the novel as he was… More
The performance of the lead child actress is great. The visuals are pretty good and yet they're very confusing as if they were taken out of a level from super mario galaxy. But that's all there is to it. And of course, Jackson is faithful as ever with the novel as he was with his adaptions of King Kong and Lord of the Rings. Difference is though between these films and The Lovely Bones, the first two are entertaining. Ultimately, watching it I was just bored bored bored bored bored. -
Eliza N
135 mins were like eternity,so if it was shorter or I better say bit faster at action, it could be more watchable .Though what was really annoying ,was the metaphysical mentions in the script which gave a bad fairy-tailing atmosphere in the air. -
Drake T
The story lacks function, offers breath taking style but just might hurt itself with the whole idea that "less is more". The director fails to guide the viewers into any coherent conclusion as the actors prance around with so much contrive reverence. Unfortunate, as the… More
The story lacks function, offers breath taking style but just might hurt itself with the whole idea that "less is more". The director fails to guide the viewers into any coherent conclusion as the actors prance around with so much contrive reverence. Unfortunate, as the premise held quite a lot of intrigue for me and I'm always a visual type of guy. -
Alexander D
First and foremost, please allow me to state quite honestly that the PG-13 rating for THE LOVELY BONES is kind of ridiculous. It's significantly disturbing, for one; and also, how about that one scene where Suzie is thrown against walls repeatedly, raped, and murdered (very… More
First and foremost, please allow me to state quite honestly that the PG-13 rating for THE LOVELY BONES is kind of ridiculous. It's significantly disturbing, for one; and also, how about that one scene where Suzie is thrown against walls repeatedly, raped, and murdered (very little of which is implied)? I think that's just a liiittle too much for an unrestricted MPAA rating. Enough said about that. THE LOVELY BONES wasn't a good film, as it was uneven with the acting, and each minute counted the screenplay growing worse and worse. I was surprised at how disappointing this was for a Peter Jackson movie, considering he directed the epic LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy and the 2005 remake of the 1933 film KING KONG (which in and of itself was interesting, considering Naomi Watts became the new equivalent to Fay Wray). Now I didn't expect this to be brilliant--if I had, you would be seeing a slightly worse grade here. But I can admit, though, that even though it was not a great film, it was enjoyable and visually intriguing. -
Adam K
An excellent film. Despite bad reviews from critics' I found the film very enjoyable yet disturbing. A very harsh and disturbing subject, the film dealt with the metaphor of murder in a clever way, as well as keeping you on the edge of the seat with some suepnsful moments.… More
An excellent film. Despite bad reviews from critics' I found the film very enjoyable yet disturbing. A very harsh and disturbing subject, the film dealt with the metaphor of murder in a clever way, as well as keeping you on the edge of the seat with some suepnsful moments. Fantastic acting by the cast and a well earned oscar nomination by Stanley Tucci, who plays George Harvey the murderer, scared me! Overall a great film by Peter Jackson, a one off masterpiece. **** 4 Star -
Brad W
Disappointed, but great performance from Stanley Tucci. The plot was proposterous and dull. The characters were interesting but some were really pointless. I really disliked this movie and its ending was stupid. -
Sajin P
Susie Salmon was killed at the age of 14, ... and AVENGED she will be. Only this time the poor audience had the misfortune of being on its receiving end. Listening to her babbling about afterlife for well over 2 hours, viewers are pushed beyond their endurance, to the point where… More
Susie Salmon was killed at the age of 14, ... and AVENGED she will be. Only this time the poor audience had the misfortune of being on its receiving end. Listening to her babbling about afterlife for well over 2 hours, viewers are pushed beyond their endurance, to the point where they just want to go screaming at her to get to the bloody point, or just piss off "Into the White Light ". -
Bethany M
Heartwrenching! -
Jason L
I was determined to like this movie. I truly was. And after reading the critically acclaimed novel of which it was based on, I had high hopes. Especially since it was directed by Peter Jackson. But after watching it, I realized that there are some stories that are best left between… More
I was determined to like this movie. I truly was. And after reading the critically acclaimed novel of which it was based on, I had high hopes. Especially since it was directed by Peter Jackson. But after watching it, I realized that there are some stories that are best left between the pages. To an outsider, The Lovely Bones would look like the story of a dead girl's family trying to track down her killer. But once you see it, you realize it's really a story about how her family starts to cope and move on from their loss. That's not the makes of a very interesting movie, now is it? Throughout the movie, I felt moments where the movie might have started to develop a plot. Like when the dead girl's sister finds the killer's diary, which contained detailed plans for killings and disposing of body parts. I thought she would show it to the police, (or at least her family) then track down the killer. But they didn't. They were many other moments like this, filled with suspense, but ultimately fell flat. Now that was the problem with this movie; no plot development. A book could get away with no plot development. A movie (at least a good one) can't. But they were some good things about this movie. Performances from Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, and Sairorse Ronan were decent. I also felt Peter Jackson's directing was absolutely incredible. It was dazzling, colorful, appealing, and shocking. I loved that about the movie. The thing is, it had to many abrupt shifts from scene to scene to not leave the viewer confused. Overall, I'm not saying you shouldn't watch this movie, because it's truly a visual spectacle. But when it comes down to it, it was the story and lack of plot that brought down the movie. -
familiar s
The one and only star is for its wonderful background and scenery. Several times, it reaches to the brink of touching you, but withdraws its hands at the last moment. Just when you begin to take interest, the plot throws another distraction. The movie attempts to be a moving story,… More
The one and only star is for its wonderful background and scenery. Several times, it reaches to the brink of touching you, but withdraws its hands at the last moment. Just when you begin to take interest, the plot throws another distraction. The movie attempts to be a moving story, but it's too slow in its movement. While the first half is bearable, the second half is heinously devious. It seemed as if it took forever to end. And the end itself was no good; the only good thing about the end was that the torture ends there. I was relieved, instead of being satisfied the least, when the movie ended. The cinematography was done incredibly well. The background images and certain visual effects will take you by awe. I wish that they'd spent more time and talent towards the script department than towards art department; for I care more for the story of the movie than its scenery. Most of you would have watched/suffered this by now, but for those who have (wisely) succeeded to avoid it thus far, if at all you decide to go for this hell ride, just be cautious that you've a painkiller handy. -
Anthony L
I seem to be one of the few people out of my friends list who has actually read the book - It doesn't look like Peter Jackson has either! The Lovely Bones is an amazing book - The Lovely Bones the film is a diabolical adaptation that is nothing but a money spinner due to… More
I seem to be one of the few people out of my friends list who has actually read the book - It doesn't look like Peter Jackson has either! The Lovely Bones is an amazing book - The Lovely Bones the film is a diabolical adaptation that is nothing but a money spinner due to it's big name director. The rights were practically stolen from Lynne Ramsay who would undoubtedly have made a brilliant film. I just don't understand why you would change so much if you were really that into the book, this is another example of the Hollywood machine undermining the audience with nothing but dollar signs in their eyes. I expected more from Jackson though I have to say, his visions of purgatory were so cliched and unimaginative - annoying as he still seemed to have time to add products (Lord of the Rings book in book shop window) as little nods to his previous work. Apart from the young actors who all gave good performances, the older actors should be ashamed of their acting - It seems all you need is a dodgy wig, fake moustache and a set of comedy joke shop teeth to get an Oscar nomination these days. Hopefully this wonderful book will be adapted more faithfully in a few years time. Do yourselves a favour, read the book and forget this film ever existed! One star for the young actors but that is all! -
Lady D
What started out as interesting case of Murder, uniquely told through the eyes of the dead victim, soon evolved into a creatively interpretated tale of guiding the way to her killer, whilst waiting to make it to heaven. This film shows all that is dark about the mystery, but… More
What started out as interesting case of Murder, uniquely told through the eyes of the dead victim, soon evolved into a creatively interpretated tale of guiding the way to her killer, whilst waiting to make it to heaven. This film shows all that is dark about the mystery, but it's contradicted by it's light and warmth of a better place. A strangely enjoyable film, which was dragged out a little in parts particularly toward the end. -
Saskia D
I knew this movie didn't have a very high rating, but I really liked it! I'm glad I gave it a chance (thanks to the review garyX did). The story was a little linear and lacked a certain complexity, but the surreal images make up for that. And it really got to me!! How do you… More
I knew this movie didn't have a very high rating, but I really liked it! I'm glad I gave it a chance (thanks to the review garyX did). The story was a little linear and lacked a certain complexity, but the surreal images make up for that. And it really got to me!! How do you cope when your daughter or sister goes missing? It's also about those invisible bonds that exist between people, and how everybody copes with their loss differently. -
Daniel M
When I reviewed The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, I commented on how it was possible to admire the intentions of a director while acknowledging that their film simply doesn't work. Gilliam's good intentions and body of work maintain his status as a trusted filmmaker, even… More
When I reviewed The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, I commented on how it was possible to admire the intentions of a director while acknowledging that their film simply doesn't work. Gilliam's good intentions and body of work maintain his status as a trusted filmmaker, even if his last three films have completely missed the mark. It is much the same story with The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel which depicts a family in crisis from the viewpoint of a murdered girl. Jackson is a great filmmaker who has tackled this area before in Heavenly Creatures. He has demonstrated that he can film the un-filmable (The Lord of the Rings) and do justice to a much-loved and revered original (King Kong). And everything since The Frighteners has proved that he is skilled with CG effects, giving his films a consistent and believable physicality even in the most elaborate of circumstances. Unfortunately, all of this goodwill towards both project and director make the reality of The Lovely Bones all the more infuriating. It is a huge misstep for Jackson, serving as ample ammunition for his critics who claimed the success of The Lord of the Rings had gone to his head and damaged his craft. In the end, like Gilliam's recent work, the film is an admirable failure, made with all the right intentions but so heavily flawed that the wound it leaves takes time to heal. On the plus side, there are two very strong performances which effectively carry the film. Saoirse Ronan is terrific as Susie Salmon, giving a really nuanced performance which progresses through a series of challenging emotional developments with complete naturalism. Ronan was 14 when filming began, and yet she delivers lines and holds her face like someone who has been acting for 20 years. Her only real rival here is Stanley Tucci, whose serial-killer-next-door is skin-crawlingly creepy. His performance combines the eeriness of Richard Attenborough in 10 Rillington Place with the intriguing distance that he honed playing Stanley Kubrick in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. The first also has a number of scary scenes which are initially well-handled and effective at shocking an audience. The best of these is the nightmarish sequence where Susie walks around the bathroom with her killer lying in the bath and blood stained on the sink. The walls are the same shimmering, intrusive white as in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, and the stillness of that scene goes some way in suggesting what kind of brutal acts have been committed. As Tucci slowly rises from the bath and takes the flannel off his face, there's not much you can do to stop gripping your seat in a desperate bid not to scream. But the effectiveness of this sequence hints at the first big problem with The Lovely Bones. There are huge, unmanageable lurches in tone between the tough, melancholic scenes surrounding Susie's death and the attempts at cheery sentimentality in between. Like so many of Steven Spielberg's 'serious' films, what starts off as dark, interesting and downbeat is quickly compromised by various decisions which undermine or eliminate the film's emotional impact. Susan Sarandon's character of the cantankerous alcoholic grandmother is a totally unnecessary attempt to bring quirkiness and eccentricity to the situation. What we want to see in the scenes not set in the afterlife are of a family struggling to stay together in the midst of total despair - kind of like Ordinary People, only good. But instead Jackson opts for goofiness over hard work, giving us a montage of Grandma playing in foam and setting things on fire, and thereby losing sight of the emotional thread. A bigger problem lies in Jackson's decision about depicting heaven or the afterlife. Some films only hint at the afterlife, letting the imaginative power of the audience do the leg-work. Think of the ending of Faraway, So Close!, Laura's angel in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, or the Grey Havens in Jackson's The Return of the King. Other efforts depict heaven as somewhere universally recognisable but with a subtle twist, such as the busy black-and-white offices in A Matter of Life and Death, or the hospital-cum-railway station in The Exorcist III. In these films the familiarity of heaven is immediately comforting, but it feels different enough for it to not just be a different part of Earth. Instead, Jackson opts for a computer-generated 'in-between', coating Susie's entire world in bucket-loads of digital animation which owe a great debt to Vincent Ward's What Dreams May Come. Jackson knows how to make special effects work, and in The Lord of the Rings every CG effect feels seamless and physical, or at least bound by the same physical rules. But the difficulty in depicting the afterlife is that such a place does not have to play by the same rules - we can have landscapes which defy gravity or roses flowering under frozen lakes. The result of this difference is that no matter how seamless or well-rendered the visuals are, it does feel like Jackson is making it up as he goes along, until eventually his whole rendering of 'heaven' looks and feels like a Day-Glo video game. This wouldn't be so bad if the film established a convincing link between what happens in the real world and what happens in the 'in-between'. But Susie's world always feels disconnected from what happens to her family, and the film keeps changing its mind about where and when reality intervenes. When Mark Wahlberg smashes all his ships-in-bottles, that is carried over, but when the gazebo collapses there's no clear reason for it. Because Susie cannot influence her 'heaven' in any consistent or significant way, the version of 'heaven' on screen stops being her own perfect world and becomes neither more nor less than lazy symbolic shorthand. Even more troubling than the visuals is the film's emotional heart. Films surrounding death and family disintegration are among the most manipulative when done badly, and The Lovely Bones continues this trend, serving up a brace of very uncomfortable moral messages which play out in a deeply insensitive manner. Its first message is that death, or being murdered, can actually make a person happier. Although Susie is initially and understandably horrified by what has happened to her, she seems to get over it surprisingly quickly and only returns to the pain of her family towards the end. There have been a number of film which have handled the passage from life to death or explored death as a means to escape pain - think of Shadowlands or the ending of Return of the King. The Lovely Bones takes a potentially interesting concept and is so heavy-handed and preachy that it makes Ward's work look subtle. The other, arguably worse message surrounds vengeance from beyond the grave. This is a staple of ghost and horror stories, and so you would again expect Jackson to do a half-decent job. But whether by bad judgement or the content of the book, what should be a story about forgiveness and catharsis becomes a film about revenge, hatred and judgement from on high. The prospect of Susie's family healing and moving on is only hinted at in the epilogue, while most of the film strives to make us wish death upon Tucci's character. His eventual comeuppance, involving the recurring image of an icicle, smacks of the kind of moral duplicity which long seemed to have died out with Cecil B. De Mille. In spite of its massive failings, The Lovely Bones remains an admirable effort for Jackson. It may well be that the book is genuinely un-filmable, and that in years to come this effort will be held up as proof. As it is, the film doesn't work on any level, as a spiritual paean, a family drama or a straightforward whodunit, and it is easily Jackson's weakest film since Meet the Feebles. But in the midst of disaster, there are individual moments and performances which suggest that this is merely a very obvious false note, rather than the death knell of an entire career. -
Robert C
I'll begin by saying I haven't read the book, but I know many people who have and who loved this story in that form. I thought this film was visually stunning and superbly cast, with some very impressive performances. Having said that...it felt that there were whole… More
I'll begin by saying I haven't read the book, but I know many people who have and who loved this story in that form. I thought this film was visually stunning and superbly cast, with some very impressive performances. Having said that...it felt that there were whole sections of details (thoughts and emotions) that are sometimes hard to transfer onto film - missing. Which made for a less powerful film (emotionally) then it could have been and It also caused some of the major plot points to seem sort of strange and unjustified. To spite all of this, I still found it an interesting premise and touching (if not a bit saccharin at times). -
xGary X
A 14 year old girl is murdered by a serial killer and watches from a fantasy land of her own creation as her family seek the truth as to what happened to her and come to terms with their loss. Released to a veritable mixed bag of love and loathing, Peter Jackson's adaptation of… More
A 14 year old girl is murdered by a serial killer and watches from a fantasy land of her own creation as her family seek the truth as to what happened to her and come to terms with their loss. Released to a veritable mixed bag of love and loathing, Peter Jackson's adaptation of what was essentially a "kid's book" is a combination of family drama, serial killer thriller and ghost story that actually works really well. Young Saoirse Ronan puts in a great central performance as the murder victim, and the treatment of her family and relationships lacks the usual saccharine and clumsy melodrama you'd usually associate with subject matter such as this. The imagery of her fantasy world is beautifully realised and Stanley Tucci's performance as the seemingly normal yet creepy killer combined with some great direction from Jackson subvert the mood of the film from normality to sinister and disturbing at will. Strangely uplifting for such dark subject matter, this film is an unpatronizing snapshot of life as a teenager with Lynchian themes and Hitchcockian suspense embellished with some lush Burtonesque imagery. Reminiscent of Jackson's earlier Heavenly Creatures and quite possibly his best film. -
Sophie B
Wonderful cast however some of them didn't really fit the characters that I read in the book. Ray Singh was supposed to look indian which he didn't really and also Rachel Weisz and Rose McIver just didn't fit. It didn't seem right. Stanley Tucci and Saoirse Ronan… More
Wonderful cast however some of them didn't really fit the characters that I read in the book. Ray Singh was supposed to look indian which he didn't really and also Rachel Weisz and Rose McIver just didn't fit. It didn't seem right. Stanley Tucci and Saoirse Ronan were absolutely perfect for these roles. A really sad and brilliantly portrayed film. The effects were great but as I've read the book, overall it wasn't as satisfying. I won't be quick to watch this again but only because of the emotional nature of this film. -
Jeff "
I don't understand why this film has gotten so much bad press. The film is actually quite good. Granted the film is directed by Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson, and those films are never gonna be topped, so it shouldn't be a mystery that The Lovely Bones didn't… More
I don't understand why this film has gotten so much bad press. The film is actually quite good. Granted the film is directed by Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson, and those films are never gonna be topped, so it shouldn't be a mystery that The Lovely Bones didn't exactly match Jackson's masterwork. The result of the film is quite surprising, but nothing extraordinary. At least it's surprising in the sense that the film doesn't deserve all the flack it received. The story is very good, except for a few far fetched moments, I'm referring to the scenes of Suzie Salmon being in the in between of Earth and Heaven, some of these scenes resembled the fantasy world of Chronicles Of Narnia, and I found them to be corny. But the thing that I was most impressed about was the cast, they all did an incredible job and obviously the best performance here is Stanley Tucci as killer George Harvey. Tucci delivers another great performance, Tucci can be a phenomenal villain in films, just watch his role as Adolph Eichmann in the tv movie Conspiracy, and you'll see what I'm talking about. The Lovely Bones is very underrated and I think that most people have given this film an unfair rating. The film is nothing great, but it definitely is a good film. Better than what most professional critics have said about this film. You should know that Peter Jackson will never top Lord Of The Rings. The Lovey Bones still a pretty good book to screen adaptation for Peter Jackson. Jackson shows a unique talent to staying very close to the source material, in this case it's yet another book. I have to say it's a very good adaptation and it's very good film too. With Lovely Bones you have to keep an open mind, if don't then you won't enjoy it. It may not be as epic or memorable as Lord Of The Rings, but Peter Jackson manages to create yet another good film. -
Red L
I didn't like this movie much. Perhaps I need to read the book. Susie helps solve her murder from the in-between world - sort of like Ghost Whisperer. But how she does it seems inconsistent. Sometimes she makes contact with her family or boyfriend, but not enough to really… More
I didn't like this movie much. Perhaps I need to read the book. Susie helps solve her murder from the in-between world - sort of like Ghost Whisperer. But how she does it seems inconsistent. Sometimes she makes contact with her family or boyfriend, but not enough to really help much. Where is Melinda Gordon when you need her? -
Dean !
After all the hype of the book, which I haven't read, I have to say this was a let down. There are some good performances from the young murdered girl and the creepy neighbour. The visuals for the inbetween world are ok. However the story and plot kind dragged for a long time,… More
After all the hype of the book, which I haven't read, I have to say this was a let down. There are some good performances from the young murdered girl and the creepy neighbour. The visuals for the inbetween world are ok. However the story and plot kind dragged for a long time, and reached an uneventful conclusion. I expected so much more, but it was just rather average to be honest.
Cast
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Mark Wahlbergas Jack Salmon -
Rachel Weiszas Abigail Salmon -
Susan Sarandonas Grandma Lynn
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Stanley Tuccias George Harvey -
Michael Imperiolias Len Fenerman -
Saoirse Ronanas Susie Salmon
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Rose McIveras Lindsey Salmon -
Christian Ashdaleas Buckley Salmon -
Reece Ritchieas Ray Singh








