After the Storm (2001 TV Movie) User Reviews

Poor Hemingway adaptation!

[gazineo-1 · 4/10 · 16 September 2002]

Tiresome and poor adaptation of a Hemingway novel puts a sea adventurer (Bratt) in a search for money and gold stored in a wrecked luxurious yacht. He teams up with another sea scavenger (Assante), a sweet and aparently näive young woman (Avital)and the "femme fatale" Janine (Girard). The movie is slow until the end and even the twist at the ending does not save the peasant treatment gives by the director. Bratt made a good work.

I give this a 4 (four).

Slow paced, just watchable yarn

[rob-236 · 4/10 · 2 March 2005]

Very slow "thriller" about a sea scavenger (Bratt) who along with his seemingly naive girlfriend finds the wreck of a luxury yacht and raids it for the very sort after contents.

Unfortunately he is tracked down by another islands-man (Assante) and his "femme fatale" wife who demand a share of the profits, and then its all a question of trust - or lack of it.

Based on a story by Ernest Hemmingway, there really doesn't seem to be enough to keep you interested for the best part of an hour and forty mins, all in all though its worth a look but certainly not one to watch over and over and the "twist" at the end is predictable, yet doesn't really add up.

Bratt is quite good and Avital is cute - while the stunning scenery is most definitely a plus point.

absolutely a slow B movie

[jeroenberndsen1 · 3/10 · 27 October 2003]

It would be a waste of my time to talk very long about this movie and i think a waste of yours too.

barely one hundred votes to this movie and i can figure why. personally I just wanted to see what others think about this movie after a wasted evening on this pic.

Slow, stereotype actors (sorry bratt and assante), cliches, boring... I just rated it 5/10 but.... even that is too high!

4/10

Nice Bahamas vacation footage masquerading as a movie ......

[merklekranz · 1/10 · 10 January 2010]

I'm sure Armand Assante and Benjamin Bratt enjoyed shooting this in the tropical islands. Unfortunately the audience must suffer in the comfort of their own living room watching this trivial nonsense. The characters are all boorish, the accents all bad, and the script is terminally boring "Are you with him or are you with me?" "I don't know". "After the Storm" is a mish mash of treasure plundering from a capsized cabin cruiser, an uneasy partnership of the scavengers seeking the treasure, corrupt police officers, female jealousy, terrible dialog from all concerned, a rubber shark attack, and on and on and on. Terrible. - MERK

what can i say, a b-movie

[rtd_u_4_utter_underappreciation · 1/10 · 14 May 2003]

...and an incredibly bad one, as well. i've never read hemingway, so i don't know weather this is faithful or whatever, but i couldn't get on the mood.

benjamin bratt bouncing around as the macho 'hero' is ridiculously poor.

this man shouldn't be allowed to pretend being an actor. you live in denial, benji! armand assante and simone-elise girard do a better job, but there was nothing they could've done to save this miserable excuse for a movie. and, realistically, they are also quite mediocre actors, they just seem fine in this one considering the level of competition.

the director tries to be all clever twisting and turning the events and trying to create a paranoid feel, but hey, when you can't do it, you just can't! the plot in it's childisness and predictability is so stupid it's not even funny. i suggest considering going back to your day job. (i had a hard time not to curse here)

the studio must be happy to see the crew spend all the money having a nice little holiday somewhere in caribia, as the only thing i saw money spent on was the camera filter that made the movie look more expensive than it actually was. the jazzy music is annoying and unfitting, aand naturally the dialogue is on a 'me tarzan, you jane'-level.

if you, after wathing 'after the storm' and 'wild things' still say mamet's movies suck i can't help you. you need serious treatment.

1/10

Decent Film For Fans Of Paranoia

[ccthemovieman-1 · 7/10 · 27 March 2006]

For a film few people probably have heard about, this was pretty good. It is a suspense tale of greed as Benjamin Bratt, Armand Assante and their respective girlfriend and wife go after jewels and gold from a sunken ship near the Bahamas.

Paranoia helps make this a guessing game on who and why things are happening, with a bunch of twists and turns popping up late in the story. It's a tame movie, language-wise, and features some nice photography.

It's not worth buying but you could do a whole lot worse renting something else.

excellent adaptation of Hemingway

[2thomjef · 10/10 · 28 July 2004]

while visiting Key West several years ago We also toured Ernest Hemingway home where he lived back in the early 30's with his second wife Pauline. Under the "carriage house" where he did so many of his famous books such as "a farewell to arms" there is his book//gift shop. I brought his book "after the storm" and the guide told us that the story behind the story is what brought Hemingway to Key West in the first place. Seems local legend had it that a Spanish schooner when down during a storm and Hemingway's friend Don Pasos explored it and actually saw thru a porthole bodies floating around and yes, a beautiful woman as well wearing jewelry etc ... , which gave Hemingway the idea to write this novel. As far as the movie goes it does follow the central story but with a few twists thrown in for good measure. The locations of the movie are beautiful but it was not taken in Bahamans as it depicted but Belize. I just wished the movie was longer as there were some side issues that could had been developed a little more ... like how did Malcolm know Stephen Lang for instance or the "real" role of Jill Jacobson ( the governor's wife ) to Arno and Jean-Pierre ? ... Benjamin Bratt was really good wasn't he as Arno? .. he has truly matured since his days as "Lenny's" prop in the TV series "Law & Order" and has become a good actor and I cannot think of anyone but him playing the role of Arno .... good movie ... based upon a very good book ... and filmed in a very pretty setting ... what more could one asked when watching a movie ?

slow start, strong finish

[rambow · 9/10 · 11 January 2002]

Based upon the jacket's comments from critics and the SunDance recommendation I rented the DVD. About fifteen minutes in I thought I was wrong about the movie. It looked like a dog. But I kept with it and about forty minutes in it was all coming together. The beautiful scenery, the plot and the action. A good surprise at the end too. The behind the scenes on the DVD aren't worth talking about, much less watching, but the movie is.