Eternity

Last night I had another double feature, this time with my nephew, and we began with Eternity which we both enjoyed.  After Larry (Miles Teller) and Joan (Elizabeth Olsen), a couple who has been married for 65 years, die shortly after one another, they find themselves in an afterlife where they have one week in a so-called "junction" to decide where, and with whom, they want to spend eternity. They each have the help of an afterlife coordinator, Anna (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) for Larry and Ryan (John Early) for Joan, and a variety of options to choose from.  However, complications ensue when Luke (Callum Turner), Joan's first husband who died in the Korean War shortly after their marriage, appears and reveals that he has been waiting for her in the junction for the past 67 years.  Joan is now faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and the man she was denied a life with.  Her decision isn't made any easier when both men, rather amusingly, turn it into a competition for her love.  Even though this features a really clever and intriguing premise, I think it goes on much too long and I found it really annoying that the rules painstakingly established within the afterlife are broken, not once but twice, to advance the plot.  However, I liked all of the performances, especially those of Early and Randolph because they are hilarious, and the world-building, particularly the exhibition hall and advertisements promoting the options for places in which to spend eternity (my favorite was the Weimar Republic without the Nazis) and the archives of memories which look like museum exhibits.  I didn't love this but it is a lot of fun and I recommend it to fans of romantic comedies.