Spectacular effects overwhelm a ponderous love story.
Second, the common knowledge shared by those of us who are Returned is that, as desperate the longing to go back in to the Light is, committing suicide is the one sure fire way to make sure we never again taste the Glory. The hardest thing for Cranky to do when sitting in any kind of movie that deals, almost seriously, with the Other Side is to put everything he knows on the back burner. Which, unlike novels upon which movies like this are based that I can ignore, is a lot harder to do than it sounds. In this case, Heaven is a creation mirroring the paintings done by Annie. While Chris learns to live in an environment composed of thick globs of oil based paint he is reacquainted with long dead pets and realizes he is in the wrong Heaven.