After the Storm

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

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.

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).

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.

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.