When the Mist Clears

I am sorta lost for words. I don't think I've ever given a 2 rating. Maybe for a movie that was in terrible taste.

This movie is just frighteningly bad. How on earth did they get the funds to shoot this. Must have been a completely oblivious Angel funder.

The directing and acting are childish and at such an amateurish level I suspect most of us could do a better job.

How they forced the production value into this film I will never understand. The cinematography and music is occasionally decent with pretty scenery, but except for the opening scene of the city, still nothing we haven't seen done much better. And really, the scenery did most of the work.

So beyond that one aspect which gains two stars, the rest is unbelievably bad.

Acting: terrible Directing: terrible.

Circumstance: ridiculous (specifically the psychiatrist scene and the robbery scene) Historical exposition: contrived and exploitive/manipulative (and even failed at trying to do that)

Really did feel like people were reading their lines from a teleprompter for the first time.

I really tried to not sound too pretentious writing this. Sorry if I chose words that sounded as such. But I was really stretching trying to find the words to explain how bad this movie was. It's a b-movie not worth watching. It has no redeeming qualities or cultish fun. I don't think I've ever given such a scathing review where I couldn't find some redeeming qualities to a film.

If I was to recommend watching this, it would only be so you could discover something so bad as to be completely mind boggling and uniquely bazaar that it could ever be released.

Don't waste time for watching this. Story line is very bad. And the acting is the same. Lady in the main character doesn't know acting at all. Her voice is..urgh.. Waste of time...

Beautiful picture with nice idyllic Italian scenery. The sex scenes were a bit much but I guess that's my fault for not checking that it was "erotic". Dreamlike.

This film is gorgeous.

Definitely not full on erotica though there are a few fairly erotic scenes, one being a very stunning love scene that is beautifully filmed.

The film feels honest, romantic and the performances are very natural and its carried by fantastic cinematography and a really wonderful score.

This was an odd experience. The scenery is lush. The experienced actors seem to do their best with what they're given (the father had a lot going on for him). But the female lead made me think 'This must be the case of the director being so smitten by a woman they would film her against their own better judgement'. It's either that, or the lady must have been holding him for ransom. I have no other ideas as to how to explain the presence of the actress in this film. Also, the movie pretends to be taking you into the territory of the erotic genre, but does not deliver even close. It fails as a romance by being too blunt and obvious, it fails as a drama by giving extremely poor acting from the starlet. Guys, if you're going for erotica, just go there. Don't pretend to be above it. Cheap 50 Shades knock-offs do not play out well when there's no commitment.