By Peter Covino

Entertainment Editor

What will I be doing at age 80?

Getting off the couch and feeding myself will be two primary concerns since sometimes I am barely capable of either now.

What does Clint Eastwood do at age 80?

He keeps making movies, and good ones too.

He directed Invictus, Gran Torino, Changeling, Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Father, all since 2006, and managed to give a great performance in Gran Torino as well.

And now we have Hereafter, Eastwood’s latest directing effort at age 80.

This isn’t Eastwood’s best, but it is an interesting reflection for a man who is now an octogenarian.

Matt Damon is the star of Hereafter, a film which offers three separate tales of life that interconnect by film’s end.

Damon is the centerpiece here, a San Francisco man with a gift (or a curse as he calls it) who has the ability to communicate with the newly dead. He has made money from his gift in the past, but it has been hell on his social life since he it seems to destroy any meaningful attachments.

Belgian actress Cecile de France stars in the second tale, and the one that gives Hereafter a rousing start. She is a vacationing famous French broadcaster and is enjoying the good life on an island holiday with a special male companion. It is almost time to wrap things up for the holiday and she is doing some last minute shopping at the island market place and it turns out to be the worst place to be on Earth at the very moment.

In one of the better action sequences you will see on film this year, a giant tsunami sweeps across the island, swallowing everything in its path. She manages to survive most of it, only to get slammed hard and thrown under the water, apparently one last time.

A few survivors try to revive her, but alas, she is dead. Meanwhile, she is having one of those “in the light moments” and suddenly returns to the world of the living. For the rest of the film she tries to come to grips with what happened to her and finally writes a book about it.

The third story is about twin boys in England, who are extremely dependent on each other because their mother suffers from drug addiction. When one of them dies in an accident, the remaining despondent twin begins a crusade to find someone who has the power to connect with the dead.

That sets up an amusing series of events in a serious film as the boy “auditions” several fraudulent individuals before he connects with Damon’s character.

Eastwood visits and revists each tale intermittently before all three lost souls eventually converge in London where their paths cross.

Hereafter has some good scenes and good performances by all involved, even if it seems a bit long at times and could use some better pacing.

But with Eastwood in his 80th year, and his days as the unflinching macho hero of westerns and Dirty Hero behind him, it has a lot to say, maybe about immortality and what comes next, if anything.

Critic's rating B-

Rated PG-13