After We Collided is an American Romantic Drama film directed by Roger Kumble. The story is based on the 2014 novel After We Collided by Anna Todd and is the sequel to After (2019). It stars Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Dylan Sprouse, Shane Paul McGhie, Candice King, Khadijha Red Thunder, Inanna Sarkis, Samuel Larsen, and Selma Blair in main roles. The film was released on VOD on 23 October 2020.
Tessa (Josephine Langford) now starts working as an intern in a publishing house whereas Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) is now only waiting for her reply to his letter that he gave to her in the first part. Tessa met Trevor (Dylan Sprouse) her coworker, who is now a new competitor for Hardin. At a party, when Tessa is drunk, she calls Hardin and caught Tessa and Trevor in a very bizarre situation but everything is fine! Tessa and Hardin make love to each other in a hotel room and Tessa starts spending time with Hardin knowing that he made her fall in love with him as a challenge, a game. But who cares really? Hardin wrote her a love letter, right? So what is the future of Tessa and Hardin's relationship? Will Trevor ever confess to Tessa about his feelings towards her?
The story and screenplay by Anna Todd and Mario Celaya are awful. There's no story at all, just a series of incidents that hardly make any sense. It will remind you of Fifty Shades, basically, it's Fifty Shades of Hardin. But the truth is, it doesn't even match the level of Fifty Shades. The characters are so shallow, you'll not even care what they're doing or what's going to happen next. The dynamics between the characters, except for Hardin and Tessa, and Tessa and Hardin's mother are good, but the rest of the actors and the dynamics between them are worse and feel like they're doing a school play. Even the scene where Hardin punches his father for assaulting his mother when he was a child, fails to create an impact as it was so badly written and executed. None of the characters gives you any feel or emotion. There are many erotic scenes between Tessa and Hardin which come and goes in an unexpectedly bizarre manner.
Josephine Langford as Tessa and Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Hardin is dull in this spiritless film. They are potentially good actors but this film's mediocrity limits their performance every single time. Apart from these two, none of the actors shine or made any impact. The cinematography by Larry Reibman is good in some parts and worst in some parts, almost gives you the B-movie feels. Production design, music, and other technical aspects are just about good.
Roger Kumble's After We Collided miserably fails to leave any mark, same goes for the acting that is as dull as the movie. My question is why this film has been made which has nothing solid to deliver. Just a series of events, with brisk encounters of erotic scenes between the leads and yes! they made a movie out of it. The scary part is two more sequels are on their way.
Rating:- 1/5
Now available via Video On Demand.
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