The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones (2009)

Directed by Peter Jackson

Starring Saorise Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci

I didn't read the book which I hear is excellent, but the movie was a let down. It was too staged and implausible. Firstly let me say that Saorise Ronan was incredible, hands down she steals the show, but without her - no movie. Tucci was miscast and really overacted in my opinion so I couldn't connect to him and I love him as an actor, in 'Julie and Julia' he was great.

I didn't care about the central family and Wahlberg didn't cut it for me, didn't believe him. The film goes off into dreamy limbo sequences that don't work - whereas in 'What Dreams May Come' the dream-seq's are an integral part of the story and style, here they felt cheap and phoned in. I was not impressed by the visual effects. It's a cool story, but nothing we haven't seen before. I believe with a different supporting cast this could have been a classic film, instead to me it felt like a movie of the week. I was surprised that Jackson delivered this..