Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

shealynnhopson I read the negative reviews for this film and I have to disagree with many. I thought the pacing was well done and the sequence of events was very important. When Toby finally asks "We don't know what happens if someone dies when they die?", we finally get to the core of the film's meaning. There are arguments that the film doesn't discuss enough detail about the afterlife and how it works. I'd argue that this is the point....no one really does know. And in the umpteenth version of Will's life as we see told in the movie, it's possible that the very notion of "The Discovery" is just an attempt for his reality to intersect with an alternate version of itself. The discovery I found was that the world of possibility is wide open after death. That even in the film's universe, nothing is set in stone. All of the individuals are just reflections of infinite, interlocking loops. It made me think. And i love movies that make me think.

siderite This movie is another take on the popular motif of the afterlife. This time, it all starts from a point where it has been proven some part of us goes somewhere when we die and we get what this does to people. It was interesting, it raised some questions about the nature of personal reality and regret, but it was difficult to like almost any of the characters in the film. The "regular guy" lead is just a selfish and self centered ass, while the woman he falls for is almost as bad, the dad is awful, the mother horrible. The only normal person there was his brother, who of course has a simple supporting role. Robert Redford's character was equally obnoxious, but in his case I think it was necessary, as the scientist who apparently thinks only of his work, hurting the people around him. Bottom line: you work through a lot of painful scenes of obvious attempts at video art and deep meaning, which by their very nature are neither artistic nor meaningful, only to get to the somewhat interesting twist at the end. The movie is watchable, but nothing beyond average.

renan-jegouzo it's really an unbelievable and stupid scenario. why peoples will kill themselves because of a hypothetical parallel plane of existence after death ?? it's totally stupid, no ones will do that.. lot's of other peeps believe in other planes called paradise, hell or whatever.. and they never kill themselves by millions for that...

ronin1138 Good, entertaining film, solid performances and most of all thought provoking. Those of you familiar with Nietszche's frankly disturbing theory of Eternal Reoccurance will find this an interesting watch. A few more entertainment based films such as The Sixth Sense and the lesser known Wind Chill have utilised it but this film takes it and expands on the theory with equally disturbing ideas.