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It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This film tells the story of a scientist who discovers that the afterlife exists. He works to prove what the afterlife consists of.The story is pretty heavy, as most characters carry baggages on the shoulders. At times it is a bit slow, but overall it is engaging and keeps me interested in it.

This movie is another take on the popular motif of the afterlife. This time, it all starts from a point where it has been proven some part of us goes somewhere when we die and we get what this does to people. It was interesting, it raised some questions about the nature of personal reality and regret, but it was difficult to like almost any of the characters in the film. The "regular guy" lead is just a selfish and self centered ass, while the woman he falls for is almost as bad, the dad is awful, the mother horrible. The only normal person there was his brother, who of course has a simple supporting role. Robert Redford's character was equally obnoxious, but in his case I think it was necessary, as the scientist who apparently thinks only of his work, hurting the people around him. Bottom line: you work through a lot of painful scenes of obvious attempts at video art and deep meaning, which by their very nature are neither artistic nor meaningful, only to get to the somewhat interesting twist at the end. The movie is watchable, but nothing beyond average.

Film Review: "The Discovery" (2017)Online distributor Netflix films presents this wannabe science-fiction movie that is unable to build an emotional arc for any character given by an original script by Justin Lader and director Charlie McDowell, who then prepares an ensemble cast surrounding Rooney Mara as constant-exploring character of Isla, diving-into a medical institution from nowhere build by Dr. Thomas Harper and his son, professionally without any further out-going beats of medicine-indulging portrayals by Robert Redford and Jason Segel as distressed-looking Will Harper with no transition in character, when suspense-denying cinematography by lighting cameraman Sturla Brandth Grovlen, who was given no forth-coming instructions by director Charlie McDowell to move the camera on any interior fairly-designed locations.The on the page seemingly gripping story of the seemingly socialized death-institution-build-up by the medical Harper family, when suicide, as practice to escape pain of living, becomes a daily business with 4,000,000 dead and counting, gives this picture plenty of opportunity to build an arc for the newly-entering relationship between Isla & Will, who have moments of convictions in a plain dormitory bedroom, but then again fall short, when it comes to corpse-carrying and machine-connecting experiments of life-after-death visualization on digital tablets due to no-given-story-turns of diving deeper in the human conscious, calling out an inconceivable thrills-abandoning mixture of Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" from 1818 (also known as "The Modern Prometheus") and "Flatliners" (1990), when even utmost motivated actress Riley Keough as envy-spreading nemesis character Lacey, with Robert Redford stage-taking scene of confrontation becomes utterly lost at times of an emotionally-distant showdown.FAZIT: Picture rejected (disastrous) © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

'THE DISCOVERY': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)A sci-fi romantic drama about a world where an afterlife has been scientifically proven, and how that knowledge drastically affects society. It was directed by Charlie McDowell, and it was written by McDowell and Justin Lade (the duo also teamed on 2014's 'THE ONE I LOVE'). The film stars Jason Segel, Rooney Mara, Robert Redford, Jesse Plemons, Riley Keough and Ron Canada. It's received mixed reviews from critics, and it was released by Netflix through their streaming site. I found the movie itself to be a little disappointing, due to the extremely promising premise and setup. The story takes place two years after 'the discovery of an afterlife', by Thomas Harbor (Redford). The scientific proof of an afterlife has caused an extremely dramatic increase in suicides. Thomas's son, Will (Segel), blames his father for the high suicide rate. He travels to see him, at an isolated mansion, where Thomas is doing more research on his findings. Will meets a suicidal woman on his trip, named Isla (Mara), who he later prevents from killing herself. He then brings Isla to his father's mansion, and the two assist him in his research there. The whole time Will is extremely skeptical about the damage they're doing to society, with these new findings.The movie is extremely dark and depressing, for almost it's entire running length. Like I said, the idea for the film is really intriguing, and fascinating, but it's definitely not fun watching it play out. The performances are decent, and the climax is somewhat interesting, and unpredictable, as well. I had hoped for a lot more from it though, when I started watching it.