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.

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.

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!!

The first thing to remember is that Hollywood will change stories. It's an inevitable part of the process and is always a divisive move for fans of the original work. If you've read the stories, you may feel cheated - Tessa features so little in the story of what was her life. It's so unlike the works that came before it, as though the producers knew that Hero was the star to rely on for one more round. Their golden ticket. But, it's important to remember that it's deviated from the original plot since it's inception. It's all part of the transition from novel to screen and until this point, it's still managed to pull in our heart strings and give us enough of the characters to keep us on the edge of our seats.

I loved that 'After Everything' felt like an homage to 'Before', giving an insight into who Hardin was and how he became the villain we grew to love. It's his redemption story and Hero played the character he's worked hard to build, fantastically. But ultimately, the final part of the story was too rushed and I couldn't help but feel like the soundtrack overplayed it's hand throughout. It took away from what could have been an important and fitting ending to the story.

Whether you're a fan of the books or not, as a romantic movie, it failed to deliver that satisfying closer that we all hope for. It forgot what it was trying to achieve in the previous films, which is what took away from what could have been a real happy ever after.

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.