Rotten
The screenplay is full of infelicitous dialogue far from a plausible vernacular, which wouldn't matter if the movie had an ounce of stylization to justify its fourth-grade-reading-level airport-novel vocabulary.
Vadim Rizov, AV Club
Overview
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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29%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A better title would've likely been "121 Minutes in Purgatory," since that's essentially where audiences will find themselves residing during the entirety of this dreary slog down a familiar road paved with painfully good intentions.
Matt Fagerholm, RogerEbert.com
Fresh
This inspirational indie earns points by being more bluntly realistic than many other faith-based dramas in its depiction of an ordeal that likely would challenge the faith of even the most devout Christians.
Joe Leydon, Variety
Rotten
Turns out people can get really irritable after seeing heaven.
Tricia Olszewski, TheWrap
Rotten
Although this well-meaning film may appeal to its intended audience on a spiritual level, the result is a sluggish, clinical, largely dreary portrait that tends to mistake trauma for drama.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
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