David Goyer directs but does not write this remake of a Swedish film.Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) is bright, well to do teenager who plans to move to London and get away from his cold, distant mother.His nerdy friend has borrowed money from some Annie and some high school heavies and they are putting pressure on him. Annie is a delinquent who is also involved in some stolen car ring.Nick gets attacked by Annie and her thugs as they wrongly believe that he grassed them up. Thinking he is dead they throw him down a manhole cover.Nick is not dead, he walks around school but no one sees him or can hear him speak. He realises that he is in some limbo but his body is still alive and he needs to get the police to find his body before it is too late.The film does not start out too great with many of the usual High School tropes and stereotypes. It gets interesting after Nick gets attacked but it is not a case of whodunit, we know who did it. It is more like Nick discovering why he in this netherworld and what can be done about it.The film tries to subvert expectations as we try to understand Annie the delinquent but we never really care for her or her problems. After all she did beat up an innocent guy and left him for dead.Maybe if Goyer had written this film we might had got a more interesting slant but it is a routine movie sold as some low budget independent type film mainly because of its soundtrack.

Watched the trailer for this film and it looked pretty decent but really wasn't. The whole plot is poor and predictable all the way through. None of the scenes fit together and are way to unrealistic...I know the film was meant to be that way but they just took it too far and would not recommend watching!!!They have tried to copy films in this category but I feel as though they have taken a step backwards. Also the trailer that I watched for the film and the actually film its self were completely different, not sure if America got a different version but it certainly looked better than the UK one.

Okay - I am not fond of American remakes. Although it is the case that I haven't seen the original (not for long though) I decided to take a look at this.Why did I take a look at this before the 2002 one? Simple - David S Goyer. I feel he is a fantastic writer and I wanted to see him direct a movie without writing it. People call him an awful director? Most things in this movie worked well.The concept of this movie is nothing short of brilliance - That's what made me think "I want to see this movie - Swedish or American I don't care". I find it very well thought out - for those who don't know it is that after a kid is beaten up (almost to death) at the side of the road he then enters a ghost-like state where nobody can see him and whatever he does is undone immediately when he does them, there is only one person who can hear him and that is the ring leader of the people that beat him up.The plot point that it was the ring leader made some of the dialogue be reduced to "tell them where my body is" over and over. The ring leader of this in my opinion is developed more than a psychotic bitch as time goes on.Now then I better stop reviewing this and start to look for the Swedish original.

I'd recommend watching it if you haven't seen it.  I agree that it isn't as it seems from the trailers, but that should not deter you from seeing it.  The trailers make it seem like this guy is in limbo and he has to solve his own death to come back alive... or was it to go to the afterlife... I forget.  But that isn't how the movie is.  The story is about high schooler Nick Powell, who is an aspiring writer, and how he was wrongfully accused of something he didn't do, all because his best friend falls in deep with a criminally troubled fellow high schooler.  Nick Powell was attacked and left for dead, hanging on the balance between life and death.  The only one able to hear, and ultimately help him recover, is his attacker.Having said that, the movie is what it is; a psychological thriller with a little bit of drama and character development thrown in there.  Now maybe that's not what you were expecting... which might be why most people didn't like it... but there is absolutely nothing wrong with this movie.  Well I mean nothing wrong with it being a psychological thriller with a bit of drama thrown in.Some of the camera shots and acting were a bit weird at times, but overall it was a deep, and somewhat emotional movie that I would recommend watching.  Don't believe everything you hear and read... in order to really know if a movie is good or not, you have to watch and judge for yourself... at least that's what I believe.