Based on the comics ‘Here’; by Richard McGuire
Plot
A generational story about families and the special place they live in, sharing love, loss, laughter and life.. It was first published as a strip in the comic magazine “Raw”; in 1989 and was expanded into a 300-page graphic novel in 2014.. [from trailer] Richard: You know, if you want, you can spend the rest of the night here.
Margaret: I could spend the rest of my life here
I was excited to see this movie at the AFI film festival last night. But after watching it, I was disappointed with the movie. Robert Zemeckis from “Back to the Future”; fame likes to use technology to illustrate his films.
Been there, done that
In it, he uses different picture-in-picture panel inserts to show what was happening at different times in the same place (ie “Here” – somewhere in New England or Pennsylvania). It also uses anti-aging techniques to turn Tom Hanks and Robin Wright into teenagers (done much better than Scorsese’s The Irishman). However, these pluses do not make up for a mediocre and predictable story that focuses on Tom Hanks (and Robin Wright) initially exuberant youth, which is destroyed by the realities of adult life.
Questionable use of panels eventually becomes tiresome, as well as using the AI to create ancients and animals
The parallel stories of Benjamin Franklin’s son, a Native American, an early aviator, the supposed inventor of the Laz-e-boy, and a black family all occupying the same space at different times ultimately serve more as a distraction of attention than as improvements . . The main actors (Hanks, Wright, Bettany and Reilly) are all excellent, but I just wish they were given a better script to work with.