After... (2006)

Urban Exploration. The practice of investigating areas not designed for public use. With 850 years of history lurking beneath its streets including Ivan the Terrible's torture chambers Soviet bomb shelters and Stalin's fabled Metro-2 subway system Moscow is the ultimate off-limits adventure zone. The perfect place for a man to put his past behind him.And that is exactly what Nate grief-stricken over the death of his young daughter sets off with his wife Adrian and her brother Jay to do.But strange things can happen in the dark closed-off areas of history and what started as a way to escape his grief quickly turns into a journey that forces Nate to confront it head-on with nothing less than his eternal destiny hanging in the balance.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC: 687797120991 Manufacturer No: FLP-12099 Product Description

Astonishingly bad!!

As someone else wrote the Blair witch camera work is very annoying. Even worse, when the camera is not shaky and trailing they use another gimic and the shots are over solarised and washed out to the point of invisible.

Plot and premise were interesting enough. Location innovative. No matter these virtues were completely overridden by the stupid production gimicks.

I found it practically unwatchable. I can't remember when a movie last annoyed me quite this much.

If I could bother to remember the director and cameraman's names I would be sure to boycott them forever going forward.

Flora Montgomery should shoot her agent. How does she wind up in these roles. Furthermore if you're a fan of hers. She has little more than a bit part and then she is rendered almost invisible. April 18, 2008

Dissapointment

I gave this movie a chance, hoping that the reviews I'd seen were wrong and that they were just missing the point. Turns out: I should trust people more often.

The acting was unconvincing, and the Blair Witch style camera effects dealt the movie a bad blow. A more effective cinematography style could have granted this movie at least a "watch it for the pretty places" review, but no. The places they explore in this movie would have been so much prettier could I have had more than a split second to look at where they were.

As for this being an effective portrayal of urban exploration: it isn't. It got some things right and some things so incredibly wrong.

The movie was linear till about the mid point, then decided it wanted to be something else entirely, and when it finally wrapped up I felt dissapointment I rarely feel with cinema. January 8, 2008

Does for urban exploration what Blair Witch did for camping.

After seeing what the hollywood treatment did for hacker culture, I reluctantly gave this film a shot. One word, INTENSE. This movie delivers some outstanding glimpses of what urban exploration is all about without over-glamorizing it. I had no real expectations and that said, this film took me places, many of them far darker than lost catacombs and crawspaces. Urban exploration provided the ideal backdrop for a psychological thriller. If you are expecting a dumbed-down gollywood version of this "underground" subculture, you will be detoured to innnerspace. This is not a cineplex popcorn movie, this is what independent films are all about. The POV of this film is an experimental form of non-linear storytelling where your own interpretations augment the experience. I like a film that takes these risks. At the very minimum this film takes you places that you might never want to go while looking for something else. I think the previous reviewer might have been looking for a T&A snipehunt (we have enough of those!) but if you want escapism that does not insult your intelligence then I would highly recommend this. January 5, 2008

AFTER ALL, IT IS A "B" MOVIE!!!

I was not expecting much when I sat down to watch this movie, and that is exactly what I got...not much. I do not want to say anything to spoil the movie in case you have not watched it yet. I will say that it was hard to follow until the end when it all comes together. Unfortunately, by that time, it was too late. The whole time you are watching this movie, you are scratching your head just trying to figure it out and when you do figure it out, it just leaves you with an unsatisfied feeling. Who knows, you might enjoy it. As for me, it just didn't cut it. October 13, 2007

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