Afterlife!

This is the second review I have ever posted. Although I may not be a Siskel or an Ebert, I do know a lot about this subject matter.

The interviews are fantastic. James Van Praagh, without question, does the best interview I have ever seen him do and, as I am an ardent fan of "Ghost Whisperer" and James in general, I know what I am talking about.

Raymond Moody does a great job as well.

There was a whole list of fascinating topics and new discoveries. The list of experts, unlike any movie I have ever seen on the subject, in addition to Dr. Moody and James Van Praagh, the movie included Dr. Vernon Sylvest, Dr. Kenneth Rose, Dr. Jeffrey Rediger, Dr. Norm Shealy, and Captain Frederick "Skip" Atwater. Captain Atwater was the operations officer in charge of the top-secret military StarGate program.

There is a lot more, but I just got through watching it for the first time.

The NASA experiments, the experiments creating invisibility, and the top-secret research done on consciousness detached from the physical body were all fascinating.

As important as this topic is and the guests who appeared did their best, the film loses momentum fast.

Imagine you walk into a convention where you're excited for not only the topic but for the expert presenters who are going to appear and speak on something they've studied, researched and or directly experienced. And just as things get started, overwhelmingly loud, bad and distracting music begins playing in and starts to over pace the sound of the guest speaker, while large projectors of b-roll and graphics begin to appear in the background.

Then a host appears every 2 minutes on stage with a dialogue that inserts itself as a secondary commentary and narration for filler between acts. Except it appears the host themselves is the main act.

The actual speakers or guests are given some time, but not nearly enough. Still, you hope to see more of them but instead are being forcibly "entertained" by the flashing lights, off paced music and very off - putting b roll that is projected from every screen.

Sorry, but this production had cheesy and awfully redundant prod-values, as well, it had a knock off vibe of the "The Secret", except it doesn't even come close.

I'm sure they put a lot of hard work into this but I can't help but think this was a vanity project of some sort and no restraint was shown. It's like they stored up content graphics for years and then used every element of it at every turn. It feels disjointed and chaotic and not entertaining though I did enjoy James Van Prague who offers a brief reprieve to an otherwise fragmented and disjointed production.

How was this documentary made in 2022?? The graphics is straight out of the early 2000s. The soundtrack sounds like it belongs in a 1990s elevator (lift). Add that with some of the latest most advanced scientific information and you have yourself "Ghosts and the Afterlife".

After watching this documentary I am eagerly waiting for AI to take over this industry cause goodness gracious me, humans failed this one...

ADDITIONAL NON-SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: They mention all of the MDs and PHD that will feature in the documentary but in the end their input was minimal with most of the focus on Hollywood.

...this movie seems to have plenty, but I couldn't make it more than 20 minutes. Tried to tolerate the host, the bad audio, and even worse editing choices but it never got better. The host's wide eyed facial expressions and overly enthusiastic tone of voice come off kind of cartoonish creating a strange feeling of dissonance between her and the topics being discussed. Sound effects and background music frequently over power the volume of the people recounting their stories. The editing choices and quality are just... bad. It's poorly made which is a shame because the idea is there, it's just hard to watch. With how all over the place it is - makes me wonder if the intention was to hold the attention of a younger audience?

I really liked this movie, but a few of the scenes really scared me. Maybe I'm too sensitive. Whatever, I liked it. A lot of interesting stuff and a lot of new things I never thought or heard of. I hope there is some kind of sequel.

Everything I saw looked realy interesting from the beginning to the end of the movie. I liked the little girl narrating it too. The WW2 soldier was really good as well. All in all, I think this is a very good movie, so I gave it a 9. The part on invisibility, the NASA stuff, the secret experiments done by the government, the after-death experiences, were all really interesting. I don't know what else to say.

Thanks for reading this.