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After We Collided (2020)
Actual Trash
While the After book series shows promise, both films interpretations of After and After We Collided are awful compared to the books.
After was tolerable, horrible, but tolerable. The script was awful and the line delivery was so forced it was like the actors were reading off of a piece of paper/cue cards. But, After We Collided was pure trash, oh goodness, it is way worse than the first film. The directing is so sloppy, the characters are even more annoying this time around, and that horrible acting! I am convinced that it isn't just the script that's awful but the actor's line delivery. Especially, Hero and Josephine. Their acting was pretty bad in the first film but this time it seemed to worsen, by a lot.
Overall, the film is a disappointment and I really couldn't finish the whole thing. I got about an hour in and wanted to curl up in a corner and stop existing.
The Devil All the Time (2020)
Has Potential But Lacks Subtext
When watching movies I don't normally feel too compelled to write a review but for this movie I will. The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock is a haunting, twisted story with many complex characters which is what makes the book so interesting because you don't know what they'll do next. Sadly, in the movie, directed by Antonio Campos, the plot is jumbled and the characters' subtext is thrown out almost all together. While I suppose this is to make the movie more mysterious and slow burn, it doesn't work for me. On the other hand the acting was phenomenal! Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Bill Skarsgård took the cake for me. They're performances were hands down the best part of this movie. I could barely take my eyes off the screen during their scenes. Overall, the movie's plot was poorly put together and script could use some work (I do like that they used some dialogue from the book) but the acting was phenomenal and the cast did a great job with what they had.