While The Lovely Bones is as dark as it gets thematically, it will still be an event movie for the adult audience. But he also almost blows it all with his afterworld special effects, smothering Sebold’s delicate conceit with overblown visuals and ostentatious CGI. The power of the story of a young family devastated by murder is undeniable and the blockbuster film-maker demonstrates subtlety and tenderness in his treatment of the emotive subject matter. Tucci’s chilling, complex characterisation of the serial killer earmarks him for awards attention. Sebold’s time-spanning story – taking place half on earth, half in heaven, narrated in the first person by a dead girl – was never an easy prospect for adaptation, and Jackson can’t quite capture a fluid structural rhythm for the piece, even while individual sequences and creative decisions are spot-on. Peter Jackson’s eagerly awaited film version of Alice Sebold’s bestselling novel is sometimes exquisitely realised, sometimes frustratingly uneven.
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