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After a horrific car accident, Anna (Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Is she dead or is she still alive?

After Life is a limited release film with a few big named actors such as Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci and Justin Long. The strong cast helps save the film as the concept is good, but execution is somewhat lacking. Liam Neeson plays the funeral director well as he easily switches between creepy and normal on the fly. The rest of the performances were fairly good with what they had to work with. The suspense the film should have had felt lacking, but there were a few good parts.

The biggest problem After Life has is presenting the evidence towards whether Christina Ricci’s character is alive or dead. I won’t spoil what happens, but there are a lot of things that conflict and it lowers the effectiveness of the film. It’s still a decent film and doesn’t hand feed everything to the viewers, but might not be a movie you want to see twice.

After Life Trailer

My Rating 6/10

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