excellent love story with a strong character arc

Rating: Null/10 (30 October 2005)

Sam (Patrick Swayze) unable to truly express his deep love for his lover while alive, demonstrates his love and devotion to her in his afterlife as a consequence of avenging his murder and bringing those guilty of it to justice.
Patrick Swayze does a remarkable job of playing Sam, an uncertain, pessimistic character in his human life, who dies and through trial and tribulations in his afterlife protects his lover from evil and brings about personal justice. In the process of bringing this about, Sam defines his love in a way he was unable to do in his living life. The screenplay's strong character arc (from a weak character to a strong hero) gets the viewer deeply involved in the first person and ends in a way that more than satisfies expectation.