With Roman, we watch him grieve over the loss of his wife and daughter, unable to move on, unable to find closure. The story follows the parallel stories of Roman and Jake. But then the film really slows down and for a long time seems to go nowhere, and that’s because it doesn’t. So, the first twenty minutes or so of AFTERMATH are very, very good. This is also a devastating sequence, well-executed by the film’s director Elliott Lester, and well-acted by McNairy. The film then jumps back in time moments before the crash, and we meet air traffic controller Jake (Scoot McNairy) who finds himself solo in the control tower at the airport, and through a series of problematic events including a faulty phone line becomes distracted, and on his watch two planes collide in midair. It’s really well-acted by Schwarzenegger.
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This opening sequence is full of dread, as the audience sees where this is going before Roman does, since he’s so full of euphoria over seeing his wife and daughter, and the process of his being told about the crash is as painful as one can imagine. But when he gets to the airport, he reads that the flight is delayed but there is no information as to when it’s arriving, and then he is asked to come with an airline representative into a private room, and it’s there where he is told that the plane has crashed. They’re about to celebrate their daughter’s new pregnancy. It opens with construction worker Roman (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leaving work early so he can pick up his wife and daughter from the airport.
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I also enjoyed his low-key horror movie MAGGIE (2015), a film in which he delivered a notable acting performance, and so I was intrigued to see him here in AFTERMATH, a movie in which he portrays a man grieving over the deaths of his wife and pregnant daughter, both of whom died in a plane crash.ĪFTERMATH gets off to a solid start.
I’ve always been a fan of Schwarzenegger’s, going all the way back to his TERMINATOR heyday and his subsequent action films and comedies. I missed this one on its initial release in 2017, which was easy to do, since AFTERMATH is a slow burn drama with not much to get excited about other than the fact that the cast features Arnold Schwarzenegger in a rare dramatic role. The Terminator himself, here playing a subtle dramatic lead. If there is one reason to watch it, it’s for the lead performance by Arnold Schwarzenegger. As you look for movies to watch while staying home during the coronavirus pandemic, AFTERMATH (2017) may not be your best choice.
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