Nathan
has experienced professional success as a New York lawyer but his personal life
has a void since he recently divorced his wife. Claire is his only love but the death of their infant son
was more than they could handle. A
mysterious doctor comes to see Nathan and he introduces himself as a “Messenger.” Doctor Kay claims he can sense when
people are about to die because he can
see an aura of light surrounding them.
His job is to help them to put their lives in order before they
pass. Nathan becomes furious and
he doesn’t believe a word of this rot!!
He has many tests to determine his physical health and they all come
back as normal. When Nathan was a
child, a car hit him and he had the chance to move on or come back.
This
movie is based on a book that may give clearer and more sequential
information. It seems the
flashback scenes only increase confusion and Malkovich doesn’t fully explain
himself from beginning to end. The
viewer is left to fill in the blanks and rearrange the scenes to figure out
what is really going on. There are
still unexplained mysteries due to the initiations of human understanding of
death. There are just a few scenes
in French so this is easier than having to read everything in subtitles. 3* (This movie is OK)
104
min, Drama directed by Gilles Bourdos with Romain Duris, John Malkovich,
Evangeline Lilly, Pascale Bussieres, Sara Waisglass, Reece Thompson, Bruno
Verdoni, Joan Gregson, Mark Camacho.
Special
Note: The DVD cover picture is
misleading about summarizing this film.
There isn’t a gun between Malkovich and Lilly in the plot. Duris, the main actor, is shown only on
the back cover. It also states that
this is a fast paced thriller and that is wrong. Not a thriller and not fast paced?
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