I'm still not sure if I like it.

Rating: 5/10 (27 April 2014)

This is one of those films that ride the razor's edge between wildly succeeding and utterly bombing. In the end, I believe that it simply tried to take on too many subjects at once — time travel, ETs, psychic phenomena, SETI, life after death — all supremely interesting subjects taken one at a time, but together in the context of one two-hour movie, a bit overreaching. When Ms. Foster gets to where she's going, she encounters a land that resembles more a cosmic Club Med or a Near Death Experience with surf and sand, where she has a mystical meeting with her long-dead father (played by a superb and nuanced David Morse), it wasn't exactly what I had expected, to be honest. In the end, as all good yarns often do, it brought forth more questions than it answered, which is how it should be, given the psycho/social implications it attempts to weave. But as much as I was truly moved by her inter-dimensional reunion with her beloved father, alas, even the ironic final moment of the film seemed once again to fall flat. Again, if sentimental moments briefly shared by a separated daughter and dad are your cup of tea, this film will at least succeed on that minor point. But as a film, this movie suffers by taking on such huge and ponderous themes, and unfortunately loses it's way in the process.