After Darkness (2019) Reviews

• Intriguing premise ruined by a film that ends up centering around the father's mental illness

  plato-421192019-01-21

  I had high hopes for this film, sounded like an interesting premise. Instead terrible writing combined with a low budget created an absolute snooze fest with contrived unrealistic interpersonal drama substituting for any real action or plot line. By the end of the movie you are hoping at least half of the family won't survive, they're so g'dmned annoying and stupid. Most of the movie centers around the "family" that basically hates each other hanging out in the house waiting to die. The worst part of the film is that they DO NOT.

• Don't Bother

  arfdawg-12019-01-18

  From the very first frame you realize this is going to be one stupid boring movie. The premise is idiotic -- the sun is going dark. Anyone who knows anything about science knows this cannot happen. OK but it's a movie so how about the writing? Dismal. And I mean the worst most boring writing ever written on the face of the Earth. OK well sometimes poorly written movies can be saved by stellar acting. Forget that. The actors deliver their lines as if they are reading from a script at the first rehearsal. No emotion. just reading. Kyra Sedgwick must need the money since Bernie Maddoff took all of it in his scam. OK well really dismal movies are sometimes saved by boffo directing. Not a chance. This movie is director by an amateur who should NEVER be allowed to direct another movie. It is slow, boring, poorly set up and in all garbage. I watched it so you don't have to. Heed my warning.

• bland and boring

  danfurtado-112212019-01-20

  I watched this movie based on the synopsis, it sounded like it could be somewhat interesting. Well I got about twenty minutes in and realized it was going to be one of those nothing movies. Almost nothing happens for the 90 minutes and the drama between the family isn't tense or interesting all the characters I just didn't really care about. The father is definitely the most interesting character in the movie but that isn't saying much. Movie isn't god awful bad but just a complete bore of a chore to get through imho.

• Bad Berries

  nogodnomasters2019-01-27

  "After Darkness" is a family drama played to the background of a blacked-out sun. In spite of the fact there is no solar light, solar powered communications satellites operate for days on their battery back-up. Raymond (Tim Daly) the family patriarch is a self-made man who is overbearing and difficult to get along with. He has a connection with a senator to get the family safely to caves. Ray Jr. (John Patrick Amedori) provides the voice of reason as the family gets on each other's nerves as food runs short and the earth turns cold. In one scene it was very light outside as if there was moonlight. With no sunlight, there is no moonlight. I thought the power grid stayed active way too long. The family drama centered around the father driving everyone out and crazy, yet he is their only hope for survival. Characters not very engaging. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

• Not the worst movie I've ever seen is the nicest thing I can say

  goonta2019-01-24

  Okay so, to be fair, there are worse films one could point to than this odd snoozefest, but make no mistake, from start to finish you will find yourself wondering if your 98 minutes could be better spent doing something else. Nevermind the affront to science, there are bigger problems. The acting isn't the worst but it's pretty bad, maybe slightly better than an after school special but I'll admit I might be giving it too much credit. The characters are more like caricatures, and it's hard to care what happens to such shallow, exaggerated cliches. I wouldn't even really call this a scifi, more like a drama with science fiction undertones, and a bad one at that. I watched this movie clear through so you don't have to, and don't endure to the end expecting to be rewarded for your sacrifice. I've seen some films that started out terrible but ended up surprising me. This was not one of those films. My suggestion is this: If after the first five minutes you find yourself hoping it gets better, know that it won't and stop wasting your time - I wish that I had. On the other hand if you're bored to tears and there's nothing else to watch, you could do worse (just not by much). I realize not everyone is going to agree with my low markings but if I really liked this movie I'd avoid going all in on five stars because it's so clearly bad that I'd look like a shill.