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The afterlife movie soars to new visionary heights in 'What Dreams May Come.'
Dripping with bold visual aplomb and sugar-coated mysticism, Vincent Ward's film is a staunch romantic's romance for those who believe-or want to believe-in eternal love.
It's not much, other than the vision thing.
As rare and odd, and visually breathtaking, as modern filmmaking gets!
Here's what's wrong with giant movie screens: You can fill them with extreme close-ups of Robin Williams' face!
A heaping serving of metaphysical gobbledygook wrapped in a physically striking package.
Worthwhile for thoughtful teens.
Aside from having one of the worst titles in recent film memory, "What Dreams May Come" fails by trying to be all things to all people.
The film lurches ... toward greatness, dazzling the viewer with a spectacular view of heaven that is not only beautiful but also profoundly moving.
Has two things going for it--its spectacular, Academy Award-nominated special effects and the fact that it ends. Everything else about this ridiculous, three-hanky film sends it sharply into nightmare.
Visually, it's one of the great movies of its decade; dramatically, it's rather blurry and baffling.
This is what happens when you try to make a philosophical movie about spirituality without making anybody uncomfortable.
This ambitious afterlife romance introduces provoking themes, but Williams eventually leads the way back to familiar hackneyed ground. The grandiose art direction provides moments of wonder, but the muddled script gives them no raison d'être.
It may push just the right buttons for some, but it had the perverse effect of making me want to wear black, read some Sartre and revel in a meaningless and empty universe.
The set design, artistic direction, special effects and cinematography of this film are all stunning.
For all its fabulous imagery and occasional dab-your-eyes moments, What Dreams May Come never rises to the wonderment of its own irresistible conviction -- that love can live beyond the grave.
This is still a very special movie experience that must be seen on a big screen, but it isn't quite the masterpiece it could have been.
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