Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 227
Fresh: 74 | Rotten: 153
It's stuffed full of Peter Jackson's typically dazzling imagery, but The Lovely Bones suffers from abrupt shifts between horrific violence and cloying sentimentality.
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 27
It's stuffed full of Peter Jackson's typically dazzling imagery, but The Lovely Bones suffers from abrupt shifts between horrific violence and cloying sentimentality.
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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,
PG-13, 2 hr. 16 min.
Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Dec 11, 2009 Wide
Apr 20, 2010
$44.0M
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (227) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (75) | Rotten (155) | DVD (7)
Jackson seems more at home in the afterlife than in this one, rendering this off-kilter project creepy and pretentious.
Some books should stay between their covers, and The Lovely Bones may well be one of them.
Understand, the film still has power, just not as much as it should.
The movie is often wise.
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.
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.
Your own peace will come after you walk out, trying hard not to laugh at how crazy-bad it all is.
Unshackled by earthly restraints, Jackson shifts his Weta toolsets into overdrive in a more-is-more free-for-all frenzy.
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.
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!'
I had a few bones to pick with the story.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The whole plays better than that would suggest, largely due to Jackson's imagination and commanding skill.
Pet peeves and stylistic differences of opinion work against Heavenly Creatures director
For all the efforts of a fine cast, Jackson never gives his human drama the desperation and frustration it calls for...
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."
While technically accomplished, exhibiting flashes of Jackson's idiosyncratic taste, it is frequently sentimental, softhearted, and diffuse. (Blu-ray Ediiton)
I never read the novel, so I have no idea if it is as tedious as Peter Jackson's movie.
Artistically and technically, this film is superb, rich in excellent performances, wondrous visuals and compelling ideas. Yet for all its brilliance, The Lovely Bones remains elusive.
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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
December 19, 2011
Super Reviewer
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.
February 14, 2010
Super Reviewer
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