Film Review – After the Dark

“After the Dark” posits provocative questions of survival in the face of certain doom, approaching such quandaries from an academic point of view, establishing a cooler approach to situations of panic and emotion. It’s an interesting picture with a different sense of dramatic conflict, rooted in hypothetical situations instead of realism. However, “After the Dark” doesn’t maintain its intellectual muscle, eventually giving in to a Hollywood mentality that demands a melodramatic arc of obsession to taint the purity of debate. Predictability doesn’t sour the viewing experience, but it does leave a nagging feeling that writer/director John Huddle isn’t pushing hard enough to challenge his audience in a manner that befits the plot. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com