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The concept surrounding this movie was/is unbelievable - that a bracelet of sorts could regenerate cells - ultimately bringing a dead person back to life...

This is all made possible by time-travel - a prisoner from the future manages to travel back in time with the aid of a scientist (Judge Reinhold)'s machine, looking for who he believes to be his soul-mate of sorts...

Unfortunately, Jennifer Rubin (who plays the soul-mate and wife to C. Thomas Howell) and her acting ability, coupled with the poor writing, in areas, really really destroyed the potential for this movie...

I have the utmost respect for C. Thomas Howell - I personally think he's one of the best actors around - and it's a shame to see him in a film that really could have been a success...

I feel that if a more talented director and more thoughtful screenwriters had entered this project, 'Last Lives' could have been brilliant...

[4/10]

If you can get past an early scene in which the kidnapped lady can escape her captors by simply sliding under the steering wheel and driving away in the vehicle her captors have all vacated, but--INSTEAD--chooses to leave the vehicle, run toward a cow pasture, tear half her dress off on a barbed-wire fence, and be quickly dragged back into captivity--GOOD LUCK! It is THAT kind of movie.

They should remake this film, perhaps with a different cast, perhaps with the same one but at least another few million in the budget. The story is interesting enough to deserve a makeover. It's been done before - LA Takedown and Heat for example. I'd grade this a "C+" and a "could try harder".

Not much else to say of this science fiction/action wannabe. The story is poor, the acting is poor, and pretty much everything else about this movie is poor. The only intriguing aspect of the movie, the bracelets that can bring you back to life, is wasted in the pathetic plot of the film. Long story short, skip this film. [1/10]

Although the film has a good base of an idea, it has so many unrealized ideas that it is a pointless waste of time. There seem to be no redeeming features, and the relationships have no real emotion to them. The bad guy doesn't seem that bad, the good guy seems wishy-washy, and the only character that I liked was the cop. Disappointing.