Although the movie starts off in a slow weird way, once you watched through you'll learn to like the characters and love their friendship. WristCutters is worth watching.Despite it's box office earnings "wrist cutters" is fun and takes the audience on an adventure through the dreary afterlife in search for Zia's love. The acting is good and the story is excellent for a low budget movie. WristCutters is not long and has just the right amount of "funny" leaving you wanting more.If you like dark comedies, romance and friendship you should without a doubt see WristCutters.

Depressed over his girl Desiree (Leslie Bibb), Zia (Patrick Fugit) kills himself and is stuck in purgatory with other people who committed suicide. It's like the normal world except it is mostly abandoned, there is no smiling, and there are no stars in the night. The joy and light is out in this world. He's working a boring kitchen job in Kamikazi Pizza. He befriends others like Eugene (Shea Whigham) and his family who all committed suicide on their own. Then he hears that Desiree died from suicide a month after him, and he goes off on a road trip to look for her with Eugene. They pick up hitchhiker Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon) who's looking for the people in charge. She wants to go home believing she's there by mistake. Then they almost run over Kneller (Tom Waits) who is lying down in the middle of the road. He brings them back to his camp where all kinds of small miracles happen.It's a very interesting unique premise. It's also a quirky road trip. It's deadpan dark slacker humor. It's not wildly funny but the downbeat tone fits the story. It has a light hearted side despite the subject matter. It does need to find bigger and better laughs instead of just being quirky. Patrick Fugit isn't a comedian, but he does the slacker character very well.

When I read the overview of this film, I instantly said to myself "Yup, definitely going to watch it"....Then I watched it O_O ... The story moves slow, and goes nowhere. It makes you ask questions that never really get answered, then leaves you wondering why you even bothered to ask. The thing, though, that was the biggest let-down, was the lack of imagination put into this film. With a plot like this, where the main character is sent to an alternate life, where people who have committed suicide, "end-up", there could have been much more creative substance to this film. I will say, however, that there were definitely some funny scenes, and that the acting was not so bad.

I was immediately drawn to this movie because of its premise: life within a dark, purgatorial world inhabited solely by individuals who had committed suicide during their time on Earth. The potential that this idea could have had, not only for an interesting storyline, but also for dark humour, is undeniable. So my friends, I was distressed as I could hear the credits about the roll, reflecting on what a poor job had been done handling this movie.It failed for multiple reasons, both big and small. The most obvious reason was laziness. It seemed as if the people behind this movie, after coming up with the brilliant idea of a suicide after-world, just figured the movie would write itself. This sort of storyline, so far removed from the mundane, requires creativity more than anything to drive it. What kills this movie is that the audience comes into it excited (presuming they know the basic idea) and expects the movie to deliver something very fresh and innovative, and I'll admit, some of the first dialogue we hear just sounds so poetic we really believe we're in for something special here. But we're not. And slowly the film unwinds and loses its magic.More sympathy was needed to evoke what the director wanted out of Mikal. We didn't get it. Zia was interesting at first, but soon became overshadowed in every scene he was next to Eugene, who, unfortunately, mumbled most of his lines. The plot, which could have gone in many, many unexpected directions, did the expected! It turned into an adventure-esque story about a boy looking for his love. The result is some bizarre Wizard of Oz type storyline with the introduction of a metaphysical cult leader who signified, by the sheer fact he was put into this film, that Dukic lost complete control of the story he was trying to develop. The film slowly spirals from fresh and interesting to lame and predictable, and it really is a pain for those of us who can envision what this movie might have been.There was mention early on in the film concerning what might happen to an inhabitant of this world if they were to commit suicide again. It was to the audience's great dissatisfaction, especially since there was opportunity to explore this question, that it was never even slightly answered.Of course, the movie wasn't all bad. There were some excellent scenes. There were some very funny parts, like the black hole underneath the seat and a handful of scenes featuring Shea Whigham's character. It was a great addition to the suicide-world that people couldn't physically smile, and that there weren't any stars in the sky, however, more similar additions were badly lacking. The ending was as cliché as they come; very unfortunate seeing as this movie should have done everything it could have to ward clichés off. I would recommend the movie because I feel the whole idea of a suicide after-world is worth seeing. And I also hope, after some have seen this film, that a generation of filmmakers might want to tackle this very idea and give it the justice it deserves. It is a big let down, for sure, but not by any means unbearable. All in all, it's a Perfect Guideline for how not to make this movie - let's hope someone takes a second stab at it, or two, the possibilities are well worth it.