After Everything

As a longtime fan following this franchise, it was obvious some stuff went down outside of filming. I guess the repercussions of that meant losing Josephine as our female lead. What's After without the source of the story? Don't get me wrong, Hero was great. But it didn't feel the same. He was incomplete. This movie served no purpose other than to promote Hero in a stand alone film. It was watchable but if you're watching it as part of the series, it sticks out like a sore thumb. Completely and utterly offensive to see Josephine only have about 15 minutes of legitimate screen time. And I'm not talking about flashbacks. What even was that? I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad the After era is over.

So, basically for 1h,25 min out of 1h30 min, they are showing only what Hardin is doing, the struggles of one narcissist when he can't get enough supply haha They were trying to make it seem like he is struggling cos he loves Tessa so much but it was no convincing to me. Tessa told him she moved on, but as soon as she saw him, she is head over heels obsessed with him on the same second. Tessa on the other hand shows only at the end of the film, literally the last few min, just so they can add some suggestive not even very good s*x scene in there. And guess what - they will get married, but they don't show any of it, they just skip through time and show them years later when they have kids? Makes no sense.. so the whole film was so slow paced (as in the whole 5 films) and suddenly they skip through the most important part of their life story - the marriage, the emotions, the pregnancies.. they show nothing. So if you want to watch Hardin being a drunkard and having s*x with other women for hour and a half, be my guest, but if you expect to see their development as a couple, this won't happen. Such a lame film, seriously. And I don't get how they include Tessa only at the end of this film, so the whole film was about literally nothing. I think this one must be the worst of them all and the ending is just so rushed and not satisfying. It's just really, really bad and I do no recommend. Not to mention it gives a bad example of toxic relationships and makes women believe that the bad guy will turn good all of a sudden, just cos she is the one, she is the chosen hahah no unrealistic. Everyone who has been in a relationship with a narcissist know they never change and marrying the guy or giving birth to his kids won't change him. I hate this film so much actually.

All the 4 previous movies were amazing, all of them. I truly loved them all. But this one, the fifth didn't cut it. I wish they ended the series with movie number 4 and not this one.

I feel disappointed and I feel we didn't get much from this movie. I badly wanted this movie to be as good as the previous ones, but NOOO this wasn't any good!

Something I wish we saw more of was Josephine, where was she? This movie was a love story between Hardin and Tessa, but in this movie, we hardly got to see her. So damn dissapointing.

I feel the ending was super rushed. I feel seriously super disappointed. I'm going to pretend this movie doesn't exist and the previous 4 only does.

I gave this movie 3 stars, due to their bare minimum effort! LOL!

But still, you have to watch this because it's the ending of the whole story. You can't NOT watch it, you have to see it, to see how this story ended. But will you be disappointed, YES!!

I think that I saw the first two movies and they were depressing from what I remember. I remember them fighting and unhappy. I just remember them being dark. This actually made you feel good at times for the characters.

I love Mimi Keene too. She was really good as always. She is beautiful and funny. I love her in Sex Education. I liked that storyline and the scenery was beautiful. To me it didn't drag on either like some of these type of movies do.

It was good for the kind of movie it is intended to be. It set out what the intention was...for him to make his amends.

Once he did that it made for a happy ending.

Good to see Hardin suffering and trying to move on from Tessa. Hero put in a really good performance.

Disliked that they made Natalie such a key part of the story. It felt like she was added in the absence of Josephine Langford but it was unnecessary and Hardin should have gone on the journey with aomeone from the series we are familiar with. Mimi Keene and Hero didn't have anywhere near as much chemistry as we usually see with Josephine so that special feeling wasn't there this time.

The sex scene added in felt totally unnecessary. Fans of the film didn't need a sex scene for the sake of it.