How to fix Clint Eastwood’s “The Hereafter”
The first 5 minutes were keepers, except in the revised version the tsunami would catch the French journalist without her shirt on.
Cut to San Francisco. After the tsunami, Matt Damon enters his apartment to find Jay Mohr dead. Shot, assassination style, through the back of the head. Damon puts his hand on his brother’s lifeless chest and gets a flash that the killers, as he suspected, the brutally efficient Vatican secret police.
He sees the French journalist on TV and flashes back to a premonition that she is the last piece of the puzzle that he needs to blow he lid off of the Vatican’s nefarious 2,000 year plot to control the masses by instilling the false belief that there is a heaven and a hell. Damon opens a secret door in his apartment to reveal currency from five countries, a bunch of passports, a copy of “The Call of the Wild” and various stealthy looking weapons and knives. He grabs the book, a Swiss passport, a glock, $10,000 worth of Euros and is off.
Car chases, explosions, coded messages written into the text of “Call of the Wild” ensue as Damon, the French Journalist join forces to liberate humankind from the Vatican’s tyranny of misinformation.
Somebody has to do it. I guess Matt Damon is a good choice. But, didn’t Tom Hanks already take a run at this?
Sigh… and I was looking forward to seeing this.
I knew there was something evil about that book.
Last year I got a letter from Warner Brothers asking if they could use our copy of “The Call of the Wild” as a prop in the movie, so I’ve been waiting for this thing to open for 12 months. That might have colored my impression, but I don;t think so. I gave up on seeing our book in hour five of the film.