The film follows the story of three people and their connection to the unknown of the afterlife. Damon's psychic ties them together as they each ultimately wind up looking for answers. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is the inspiration for the natural disaster that opens the film and sets the stage for the primary plot. The complicated sequence boasts quite a few decent visual effects needed to bring such a cataclysm to the screen.
What i liked most about this film ultimately was not in it, as it summed up to be wishful thinking on my part. For the record, i liked this film but be warned, the dried up anti-hero you are promised in Damon's psychic does not ride in to save the day. And the resolution between the boy looking for his brother and Damon's character is never actually resolved, not to the satisfaction of this emotionally invested reviewer. Instead this is and unremarkable movie not unlike any film study of a character trying to find a reason to believe in himself. Earlier i mentioned that i liked this film and there is a stand out quality to it. For the great effects, and Matt Damon's stand out acting i am surprised it was looked over by the Academy. If Jeff Bridges can get a nod for phoning in a luke warm rehash of one note anti-hero then Damon should have had some love. But what i liked most is what i expected to see but in the did not. There were endless opportunities for Eastwood to use this film to preach some self serving answer to what happens after death but he did not. Instead this film answered nothing, promised nothing and stayed away from spoon feeding pseudo-religious non sense. The film in the end was more about the characters than the question and that gave it character. Check out Roeper's review.
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