A Little Trip to Heaven

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Gregory L Aug 27 Potentially a clever plot, but gaps in how it unfolds. The audience is left to try and piece much of it together. The ending was also vague, at best. See more michel c Apr 23 bonjour ce film que j'ai vu au festival de cognac et un peut long , mais Forrest Whittaker y a porte tout son talents, bon film tout de même See more ronald h 06/03/2021 _A Little Trip to Heaven_ is a quirky noir film that's neither great nor terrible, but it's surely inexplicable. Forrest Whitaker plays Holt, an insurance adjuster investigating a fatal car accident in snowy rural Minnesota in the 1980's. He drives an AMC Pacer (When's the last time you saw one of those in a movie?) and harbors the whitest, most fake midwestern accent imaginable. We see the accident early in the film. Fred, (Jeremy Renner) picks up a hitchhiker and wrecks the car deliberately. He has set things up so that the hitchhiker is injured but Renner escapes. He sets the car on fire and the hitchhiker burns to a crisp. The cops ID the corpse as Kelvin, Fred's brother-in law, who has a million dollar policy on his life---and the beneficiary is Fred's wife Isold (played by the always unlikeable Julia Stiles). But of course, the corpse is not Kelvin. The intrepid Holt investigates the scam, and I won't get into spoilers. Let's just say all is not what it seems. And the ending of this film is beyond ridiculous. The cinematography is quite good, creating a dismal mood and making you wonder why anybody would want to live in rural Minnesota. But that ending…….Well, at least the Pacer survived. I always thought they were cute little cars. See more 01/01/2016 This film was pretty dull. See more 09/15/2015 A pile of complete trash from a director who usually doesn't miss this mark... Especially by this much. See more 09/13/2014 This movie is great visually as a noir thriller but fails pretty much in every other department. The Midwest looks like a foreign land (not surprisingly since it was filmed in Iceland) but that's not the biggest problem. The story is clumsy, lacking logic and plausibility, the "plot twist" is given away early on so it doesn't even work as a suspense thriller, and the ending is ridiculously corny. A decent noir thriller was lost somewhere on its way to the screen. See more Read all reviews

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