Afterburn/Aftershock

Horrible movie. Horrible acting. Such a waste of time. No story. No plot. Nothing happens. Horrible.

Caitlyn Leahy plays Gia Rossi the sexy, self-assured businesswoman who is trying to sign brother and sister chefs to a new restaurant with her business partner and boss Lei Yeung. Unfortunately her high power ex, Jackson Rutledge, is brought in by the competition to prevent that from happening. This brings Gia and Jackson back into each other's very explosive spheres and their chemistry is electric.

But what makes this film...besides Caitlyn Leahy, is the Rossi family who are themselves restauranteurs, Vincent, Nico, and Angelo really sell the tight knit Italian-American family.

Not the heaviest in terms of plot, but enough to make the sexy story based on the book of the same name by Sylvia Day come to life and be enjoyable to watch. An early entry in the Passionflix lineup, I am hoping that we will get to set Caitlyn again because she was great m, giving a lot of urban energy to this film.

I couldn't get through this movie. The acting was real bad, especially the male lead.

I have read many of Sylvia Day's books. While this one wasn't one of my favorites, it is still a good, if typical story.

The movie, however, is cheesy. The actor playing Jax Rutledge is in dire need of acting lessons. Physically he fits the character, the problem is his acting skills and facial expressions are not convincing.

The rest of the cast seems pretty good and it was nice to see the author of the book make a cameo appearance.

I love Sylvia Day. Her writing is amazing but I don't think that this money did the books ANY justice. The actors in the movie where terrible. My husband walked in while I was watching it and said, "Oh my Gosh., when did Lifetime movies get so bad!" This is a man who will sit down and watch girly and Lifetime movies with me.

I was just really saddened by these actors and movies. I have watched other Passionflix movies and they were very good.

This one just wasn't good.