Giving AFTERMATH a 1-star or even a 2-star rating is absurd on its face. Giving it a 1-star review and accusing anyone who rates it higher of being associated with the movie or a paid shill is straight up gaslighting.
SHARKNADO is a 1. TICKED-OFF TRANNIES WITH KNIVES is a 1. ISHTAR is a 1. THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN is a 1. NIGHT OF THE LEPUS is a 1. HUMAN CENTIPEDE is a 1. Any movie I might try to make would most assuredly be a 1. I could go on. I won't.
AFTERMATH is entertaining, engaging enough, and sports decent production values and attractive performers. The acting is OK -- not great, but adequate. The plot is imperfect, but perfect (more accurately nearly perfect) plots are exceedingly rare. It doesn't break new ground or offer a metaphysical experience, but many respectable movies don't. It's by no means an arthouse film, but it's fun to watch, and offers effective suspense with a few goose bumpy creep outs thrown in for good measure. It's escapist entertainment that's just fine for passing some time, and pass it does. The 114-minute running time, which I initially (and wrongly) found to be off-putting/too long for the genre, seemed surprisingly short.
As far as some of these reviews go, I have to ask: How does a review help others if it's so hyperbolic that it counts an average, mostly competent thriller among the worst movies ever made? Because it quite obviously is not. Perhaps it's part and parcel of the terribly sad cultural space we currently occupy -- a childish, egocentric zeitgeist that demands if one dislikes a thing, it must be demonized, deligitimized, and deemed unworthy of existence lest it pollute the minds of others less intelligent and discerning than oneself.
I'm getting carried away, but only slightly.
I will try to be helpful to folks who just want to kick back and watch a movie. Any rating between 4 and 7 for AFTERMATH is potentially defensible. In my opinion, it comes in at a 5 or 6: a 5 based on objective criteria, subjectively a 6 because I liked it and felt satisfied when the movie was over.
SHARKNADO is a 1. TICKED-OFF TRANNIES WITH KNIVES is a 1. ISHTAR is a 1. THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN is a 1. NIGHT OF THE LEPUS is a 1. HUMAN CENTIPEDE is a 1. Any movie I might try to make would most assuredly be a 1. I could go on. I won't.
AFTERMATH is entertaining, engaging enough, and sports decent production values and attractive performers. The acting is OK -- not great, but adequate. The plot is imperfect, but perfect (more accurately nearly perfect) plots are exceedingly rare. It doesn't break new ground or offer a metaphysical experience, but many respectable movies don't. It's by no means an arthouse film, but it's fun to watch, and offers effective suspense with a few goose bumpy creep outs thrown in for good measure. It's escapist entertainment that's just fine for passing some time, and pass it does. The 114-minute running time, which I initially (and wrongly) found to be off-putting/too long for the genre, seemed surprisingly short.
As far as some of these reviews go, I have to ask: How does a review help others if it's so hyperbolic that it counts an average, mostly competent thriller among the worst movies ever made? Because it quite obviously is not. Perhaps it's part and parcel of the terribly sad cultural space we currently occupy -- a childish, egocentric zeitgeist that demands if one dislikes a thing, it must be demonized, deligitimized, and deemed unworthy of existence lest it pollute the minds of others less intelligent and discerning than oneself.
I'm getting carried away, but only slightly.
I will try to be helpful to folks who just want to kick back and watch a movie. Any rating between 4 and 7 for AFTERMATH is potentially defensible. In my opinion, it comes in at a 5 or 6: a 5 based on objective criteria, subjectively a 6 because I liked it and felt satisfied when the movie was over.