I have said the book is bad, and I have claimed that the story could be a lot better. But the movie also proved that the story could be a lot worse.
Basically, the story is the same; a girl is violated and murdered and goes to heaven, only it’s not heaven but a place in between heaven and earth because she can’t let go of earth. It differs from the novel in that our protagonist starts off alive, and rather than having flashbacks throughout the story, they have all the events in the beginning of the story.
The movie does have a more distinct plotline, but unfortunately, it lack the deepness of the novel. Also, the characters all seem one dimensional. On top of that, the story was toned down to acquire a PG rating; this caused the story to lose all of its realism. Further more, the bad CGI also hinders the realism, one would assume that a movie that uses so much CGI would at least do a good job at it.
Bottom Line: this film offers nothing to the movie industry, it also lacks in the few positives that the novel had. Also, the movie is way too toned down. Take that, add some bad CGI and what do you get? A terrible movie. I give it a 3/10
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