After four years in prison, Charlie (Stephen Dorff) seeks revenge for his mentor (Willem Dafoe), for which he gets paid handsomely well. The plan is
executed but a surprise witness appears to ruin his plan; and also comes the random presence of a young woman (Michelle Monaghan) who crosses his path
believing she can see through his soul, and soon afterwards they're on board on a long road trip to nowhere or to finish his plans. "Tomorrow You're Gone"
is a lousy film experience where you can't feel anything for the characters, the situation or anything. Just contempt. The dialogues are poorly written,
the scenarios are equally ineffective and at the end you wonder if anything makes sense in this dreadful story.
For those who say this an art-house suspense they don't know what's up. Here's a movie that doesn't offer twists or turn, Charlie keeps seeing ghosts for
most of the film (even his mentor seems like a fantasmagoric character who appears whenever truly needed and there's this "weird love story" between the
prostitute and Charlie which doesn't make any sense. I mean, it's hard to believe that after four years in prison and with a woman desperatly lusting for
the man he keeps turning her down time and again. I couldn't buy that at all. It was pitiful and awful to see it not to mention she accepts her and joins
her to whatever places after a simple conversation on the bus. Perfect strangers yet it all flows well with them. Let's not forget to count how many times
she keeps calling him of "Samsom" over and over again.
What I could get from the story: this is the story of a man conflicted with himself and the revenge he's pursuing, tormented with visions of his past which
affect his future. He doesn't have a life anymore, he doesn't believe in anything anymore and comes a woman who spot some goodness inside of him and tries to
help in her own way, thinking she's in love with him. Some bits of redemption appear here and there but this man has no future since he's only worried about
his fate or possible death - of which seems always eminent because he keeps putting himself into troubles and fights. After a time, we just don't care about
him.
I was bored and annoyed after the initial 20 good minutes when I thought this movie was going places with an intriguing story. It went all downhill after
the girl enters Charlie's life. It was so bad and so weak that for a couple of times I wasn't even looking at the screen, I was just hearing the noise the
characters were making. I truly believe the good actors involved (poor Willem, at least he got the most interesting character to play in this wreck) were
only in it for a couple of bucks in their pocket - trust me, movies like these don't pay millions but it pays.
I can't and won't recommend this picture. No sir, one can definitely skip this without regret. As for myself I regret watching it all the way when a little
part of me kept insisting I should stop watching it. 2/10.
