Several cliché plots with an almost interesting frame narrative

Rating: 3/10 (28 September 2013)

Despite an interesting frame narrative for this series of parallel possible lives and some beautiful cinematography, this film ultimately falls flat. The basic idea is great: the only man in the future who hasn't been genetically altered to live forever is telling his story, but he appears to have had a quasi-quantum physics experience in which he was able to relive his life several different ways, so the story of his life moves in multiple directions. Unfortunately, the lives he lived were, at best, pedestrian love stories, and the film makers spent far too much time drawing out the schmaltzy love scenes of each one, so that eventually, you'll find yourself fast forwarding past the countless "I'll love you forever" scenes to find out that, once again, things will end tragically. If it were chopped down to about an hour and a half, and the various stories were better than simplistic, predictable romance fare, this film might have been interesting.