**SPOILER ALERT**
The movie starts with a French reporter on vacation in Thailand when it gets hit by a massive tsunami and she dies briefly and gets visions of the afterlife. This all the action the movie has and then it gets real boring. Don't let the tsunami circa 2004 Thailand throw you-this has nothing to do with the rest of the story. It is just a meaningless hook to get people to think the movie has a point. It doesn't.
Next, we meet twin boys living in England with a Heroin-addicted mom. Long story short, one of the boys dies by being hit by a van after he ran in the street without looking because he was being harassed by some other boys. FYI not the best scene to watch 10 days after my own father passed by being struck by a semi-truck as he was walking in a crosswalk. Traumatic doesn't begin to describe this. And it wasn't even worth enduring because, let me re-iterate, the movie SUCKED.
Finally, we meet a burnt-out psychic living a pathetic life dealing with his "curse." His brother wants to use him, but he just wants to be left alone. And he can't build a real relationship because when he touches someone, he can see their hidden ghosts, literally and figuratively.
The next 119 minutes is boring exposition. Nothing happens, you are thoroughly confused and you don't understand how the 3 stories relate. The last 10 minutes, predictably, find the 3 characters meeting up in England at a book fair. The psychic reluctantly reads the boy and gives him closure after his twins death. The psychic meets the reporter, who lost everything after here life-after-death experience and they go on a date which glimpses into a happy future for them both. THE END.
I am not kidding, the movie ends here. So, to recap: Three boring characters from each end of the world have an experience with the hereafter, none of which is interesting. Then they meet.
Trust me, don't waste your time on this movie, no matter how cute Matt Damon is, it just isn't worth the 2 hr, 9 min run time.
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