If you ever find yourself in an argument regarding how Peter Jackson should just stick to producing and forget about directing, The Lovely Bones would be your debate winner. Poor performances all round, particularly by Marky Mark Wahlberg who manufactures the lamest routine of his career. Enduring his onscreen efforts finishes only third last though in regards to the sub-par film making on offer here (I’ll get to the worst bits shortly). The Lovely Bones is the story of a fourteen year old girl who is murdered by a creepy neighbour back in the seventies. The movie is told from her in limbo state as she chooses between ‘heaven’, and hanging around like a disturbing afterlife voyeur. I haven’t spoilt anything for you (that is pretty much how the film starts), but now for the worst bits: there’s a completely eye cringing scene at the end when she is united under a ‘heavenly’ tree with the murderer’s other victims. My God, the music in that scene was almost as terrible as The Editors latest album * shudder*. Then in the final scene, and this comment does contain spoilers, the murderer who never gets caught accidentally falls of a cliff. He just falls off 
a cliff. Cutting edge film making indeed.  - Doug