When the Mist Clears

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.

Sometimes a film is so boring that you question what's the value of your time. I can see the audience intended for the film it but it still fails it's own audience. Nothing but a variant of the same love story we've been accustomed to.

Actors did a subpar job, felt like they were casted either through nepotism or based on looks alone and the worst part about it is that the actors constantly looked like they forgot their lines. The main character is really pretty but she acts like a 14yr old who was casted through a high school popularity poll. The rest of the cast doesn't help either, as they walk into sets; read their lines and then get off camera to never exist ever again. Dialogue scenes do nothing but show you how emotionless the actors are.

It's amazing how not active the plot is. Perhaps the writer didn't get enough time to flesh out the script/plot, because this feels like every other half-baked romance movie. Character interactions are constant expositions which keep droning on and on.

Overall, this is the type of movie you'd wanna play to do something else. Requires no attention at all, so you can play it when you trying to get to second base with a partner as background noise and once you're done, you'd give it one glance and know exactly what has happened.

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.

(2022) When The Mist Clears ROMANTIC DRAMA

The main theme of this movie is something you can watch from the Hallmark channel except with a couple of nude scenes. Produced, written and directed by Cengiz Dervis, it has Isabella (Gena Miller) already complaining and grumbling about her stay while at an isolated Italian countryside villa or manor. And it's not for laying/ loafing around the pool or to be the only person swimming in it, but because she could not have receive any Iphone service/ reception, and could not contact any of her old friends or... so called boyfriend, whoever that might be. The reason why Isabella is forced to go and then stay there is because that is where her new stepmother happens to live at where her widowed dad lives with. And during her stay she meets an American guy who maintains the property, his name is Matt (Christian Howard)

One of the major problems I had is that despite the Italian countryside, I have not heard a single Italian language spoken throughout- that the characters who are, some I suspect, obviously are Italian are just characters struggling to speak English, including the ones attempting to rob them- it at times sounds phony. The other issue I have is, and it's like, if Isabelle is having problems contacting her former love interest back home and so forth, the obvious thing for that to happen is for her bf or her friends back home to come and visit her. And yet, the movie kind of refuses to acknowledge some even exist, as shown during the scene when she was dancing with other people, viewers are not shown her contacting them at all. If there is any reason to watch this, it is to see actress Gena Miller flaunt around in a bikini when you can get that and more from seeing her online.

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.