The Lovely Bones

I hated The Lovely Bones. I haven't read the book and I don't have a single desire to open it after watching this horror.

The Lovely Bones tells the story of Jack (Mark Wahlberg) and Abigail (Rachel Weisz) Salmon and their daughter Susie (Saoirse Ronan). Susie gets abducted by mean neighbor George (Stanley Tucci) who leads her to a bunker underneath a corn field where he murders her.

The rest of the movie is Susie in "the in-between place" as she watches her family deal with the tragedy.

The real-world story - involving Jack endlessly pursuing George - is the best part of this movie. The Susie-after-death story is too long and boring.

I'm beginning to think Peter Jackson is only as good as The Lord of the Rings. All of his movies are either too long or feel too long. This one feels too long. Near the end of the movie, George is pushing his safe (in which Susie's body lays) closer and closer to a land fill. This takes, what feels like, 45 minutes.

And nevermind the horrible plot of a child abducted and murdered; the family never has true closure. George dies at the end because an icicle falls onto his shoulder which causes him to fall off a cliff.

Incredibly stupid and a waste of my time.

Don't spend yours on this film.