lofern-82645 Review of After Everything

After Everything (2023)

I so wanted to score this movie a 10 ...

[5/10 · 14 September 2023]

... but the glaring absence of Tessa made that impossible. The first 2/3 of the movie dragged as we spent too much time watching Hardin work through his self-loathing and writer's block. There were extraneous characters that I didn't want to waste my time on. In the last 1/3, my hopes soared as I expected more scenes with both leads. Instead, Tessa was only in the movie for about 15 minutes and then it ended quite suddenly with a cheesy future domestic scene. This movie would have been so much better if Tessa and Hardin had more screen time together, as their chemistry is what made this movie series so captivating from the start. Color me disappointed that this movie didn't live up to all it could have been.