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- 2013
- R
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 29 m
- 2013
- R
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 29 m
Summary In Chile, a group of travelers who are in an underground nightclub when a massive earthquake hits quickly learn that reaching the surface is just the beginning of their nightmare.
Directed By: Nicolás López
Written By: Eli Roth, Guillermo Amoedo, Nicolás López
- 2013
- R
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 29 m
- 2013
- R
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 29 m
Aftershock
39
6.0
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Summary In Chile, a group of travelers who are in an underground nightclub when a massive earthquake hits quickly learn that reaching the surface is just the beginning of their nightmare.
Directed By: Nicolás López
Written By: Eli Roth, Guillermo Amoedo, Nicolás López
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
39
15% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
45% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
40% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
39
15% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
45% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
40% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
The script by Roth, Lopez, and Lopez’s frequent collaborator, Guillermo Amoedo, giddily piles crisis upon crisis, with none of the customary mercy reserved for leading characters.
The violence is quick and occasionally inventive, with little of the attenuated nastiness that characterizes so many genre pictures, and the photography ranges from brightly sun-kissed to down-and-dirty.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 56 User Ratings
6.0
54% Positive
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
14% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
32% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 56 User Ratings
6.0
54% Positive
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
14% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
32% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
Love this ****'t know why everyone is hating on Selena, she was great. Maybe it was a little hard but really? She's only 21, cut her…hahahahhahaha
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Aftershock then becomes a catalog of most every unpleasant way of dying you can imagine.
The ending is sick enough to make it almost worth the wait. Key word: almost.
There's plenty of gore, but none of it is particularly inventive, nor does it engender any visceral or emotional reactions beyond jaded disgust.
The actual Chilean earthquake killed 300 people and turned thousands more homeless, but this movie distills everything for comic effect. Everyone gets robbed, raped, impaled, mutilated, decapitated or burned alive. But that’s not all. Crawling through the blood-drenched debris, here comes the tsunami!
Aftershock is incompetently made and morally muddled, but since talent, morality, and Mr. Roth have never been on speaking terms, we're not exactly surprised.
Hard to call the film all bad. Visually, the film is nice and captured without any jarring cinematography. The directing was great and the actors seemed to shine, even with sludge in the end of the second to third act. Everybody is all dancing and all enjoying in Chile and it would have been a good film if it left out the disaster. How do I describe this without spoiling the film?
Well, think about an okay cake. Like a lemon pound cake but for some reason it's sitting in a river of Tabasco sauce. Its nice until you get to the part where reality starts to bend. For some reason the kind of person you are in life means you can become a psychopathic murderer as soon as disaster strikes or someone looks at your tattoo. I felt it was way too stretched out of realism and to more of a silly and stereotypical territory. You can definitely enjoy the film for its sound design, cinematography and mise en scène, if you stop the film right when the crushing starts.
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It's fun without being stupid (mostly)
Don't presents us a deep thought or a huge strain, but does well as a film devoted entirely to entertainment.
But, "Aftershock" carries its problems, is not entirely exciting, well directed and acted, but without doubt, its biggest problem is that it carries the most obvious end of the story.
That leaves us indifferent to the future of the characters, since we know what will happen at the end.
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"Aftershock" 10 Scale Rating: 2.5 (Awful) ...
The Good: It wasn't a bad idea and there are actually a couple of solid twists in an otherwise straight-forward film.
The Bad: Zero characterization despite an actual attempt by the director. I didn't care even a little about any of these people. I'm not sure why Eli Roth puts himself in his films, he is a horrible actor. Could have been decent, but falls flat and is ultimately a weak attempt at social commentary laced with gore.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination
Key Art Awards
• 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
