The Aftermath Reviews

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Keira Knightley, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, to be honest, I was rather surprised by how underwhelming the damned thing actually turned out to be. It’s too bad because it was actually dealing with a fascinating page of history with tons of potential. However, instead of focusing on how life was during the post-war reconstruction of Germany, they gave us one of the most tedious and unconvincing love triangles I have ever seen. Seriously, at the time, so many people were basically starving in the streets, so many cities were reduced to ruins, so who cares about the love life of these 3 characters? To make things worse, they were all so poorly developed. I mean, Rachael Morgan who first complained endlessly about her German roommates, completely out of the blue, decided to have sex with Stephen Lubert. Seriously, Keira Knightley didn’t have much chemistry with Jason Clarke and their relationship didn’t really work either but how she switched partners rather randomly was even less convincing. So, it was rather ridiculous how this British woman would leave her husband to live with a German just after the end of WWII but they kept hammering that it was definitely the best and only option for everyone involved. However, just at the moment that you would think they would then live happily ever after, well, she switched again! Seriously, in the very last scene, she actually dumped her fresh new German lover to go back to her husband… After watching so much baseless romantic non-sense, they managed to end up with something ever more ludicrous. At least, Keira Knightley did look gorgeous in some really nice vintage gowns and the whole thing was very well done but, boy, this story just didn’t work at all. Anyway, to conclude, I think my rating might be actually too generous for this movie, I guess you might want to check it out if you really like the genre though but there is no doubt that it could have been so much better since it was dealing with such an interesting subject.