The Lovely Bones Reviews

After reading mixed reviews of The Lovely Bones, I was expecting it to be either a really good film or a really shit film. I am a massive Peter Jackson fan and love his works on Lord Of The Rings and King Kong so my expectations were high on his work on the film. When I saw it, I actually really enjoyed it!! I mean, yeah, it did sort of drag on a bit towards the actual murder of the girl but it was still a delight to watch. I thought in the first hour of the film, it was like normal, modern life but in the last hour and a half, it felt like that normal, modern life had been split into two different worlds: reality and fiction. It had a lot of very intense suspense in the aftermath of the murder and the effects were visually stunning when Susie was in the in-between world.


The story tells of a young 14 year old girl called Susie Salmon who's life couldn't be better at this point in time. She is in love, had a new film camera and her ambition is to become a photographer and most of all, she has loving parents. One day, she is brutally murdered by her neighbour George Harvey. Then she just enters a world that is neither heaven nor earth so therefore she can still see things from Earth. Because of this, she can help her parents track down the man who killed him. Saoirse Ronan's performance as Susie Salmon was absolutely INCREDIBLE!! Her Oscar nominated performance in Atonement was incredible so my expectations were very high on her performance. Where I think Ronan was probably the best choice for Susie was she showed the true innocence of a little girl and because she has been on top form over the recent years, her performance was very moving and powerful. I think she was robbed of a Best Leading Actress Oscar nomination this year. To be honest, I think she is currently the best child actress of this generation. Stanley Tucci's performance as George Harvey was amazing as well!! He is now an actor to be reckoned with when it comes to playing a character like Harvey. Tucci definitely deserved his Oscar nomination but his chances of winning it instead of Christoph Waltz are very thin! Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon and Rachel Weisz deliver great performances in this film too!


I have waited to see this film for 5 years now ever since King Kong. It is a very different film that Peter Jackson had done since before he did The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Despite that, my expectations were really high! Some things about this film showed that it is old school Peter Jackson but in other ways, it is something new from Peter. Old school ways like dark, disturbing and horrific but in new ways like visual style that is quite different to what he did in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and King Kong.


Overall, The Lovely Bones is a very enjoyable film that brings something that is obviously a myth but a beautiful one. It isn't one of the best films of 2009 but it isn't far off. Doesn't like up to Lord Of The Rings or King Kong but it is still another really good Peter Jackson film.

Film orribile, che non decolla. Direi che Peter jackson dopo aver fatto Il Signore degli anelli è impazzito perchè con King Kong, che era una cagata colossale, e questì'altra cagata, si è dato il colpo di grazia.

I really, really loved this movie. I only just saw it yesterday (I've been meaning to see it since it came out) and I came out feeling absolutely blown away.
All of the performances were fantastic and it was visually beautiful.
It's true that they could of cut out some of the 'in-between' scenes and had more of the reality.
I also have read many reviews that have been really harsh saying that it couldn't make up its mind as to what it wanted to be, but I think that's the beauty of it. I cried, I laughed, I was on the edge of my seat for most of it.
I'm really disappointed at the (Oscars) Academy for not giving the film much attention, except for Stanley Tucci's Supporting Actor performance. But we all know he won't win, it already belongs to Christoph Waltz!