Review of We Go On

We Go On (2016)
6/10
Good movie, horrible ending
12 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The plot of this movie surrounds a young man who is apparently afraid of everything in the world so he decides the only way to overcome this is to find proof of the paranormal/after life. Along with his mother, the young man offers $30,000 to whomever can prove this to him. He meets several obvious fakes, until he meets Nelson, an airport worker who offers to provide him proof of the afterlife. It is pretty obvious to anyone who's ever seen a movie before that Nelson is a ghost. This is a fact that we learn 2 minutes after meeting him. Nelson then proceeds to haunt the main character for a good portion of the movie, urging him to kill Nelson's ex girlfriend, so that he can be with her spirit in the afterlife. All of this occurs about 2/3 into the movie, so Nelson really doesn't hurt the main character for long. The main guy explains all this to Alice and let her know that he is not going to hurt her, however she apparently doesn't believe him as a few frames later she decides to shoot him point-blank in the chest with a very large caliber gun. Alice also admits that she was the one who murdered Nelson because he was a creepy stocker and she was afraid that he was going to do something to her or her son. Apparently in her mind this justifies killing Nelson and then killing the main character of the movie, or at least trying to. The boys mother rushes back to save him, I'm not really sure why because the ambulance was already there and had him load it on the stretcher so she really didn't serve a purpose at all. In the end the guy comes out of his house and proceeds to get in his new Jeep Cherokee, Which is supposed to be a great accomplishment because the entire movie he was terrified of driving. The last shot shows him receiving a notice on his cell phone and I guess were supposed to suspect that it was another ghost leaving a message? Ultimately this was a pretty entertaining film but I thought the ending was pretty lacking it didn't really provide any closure or even a decent cliffhanger so watch it if you're in the mood for something different but be warned that you may be let down overall.
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