After the Sunset 2004

Critics score:
18 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: After the Sunset promises Hitchcock-style sophistication then delivers Heist Movies for Dummies instead. Read more

Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: A feature-length travel destination video about how your next Bahamas getaway will leave you feeling like a millionaire. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: With nothing at stake and little mortal peril, Sunset loses most of its dramatic tension. Read more

Ted Fry, Seattle Times: A movie that yearns for the circumstance, wit and integrity of an Elmore Leonard comedic actioner. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: [A] mostly terrible heist comedy. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Shot in the Bahamas with lots of plugs for the Atlantis resort, After the Sunset looks great but is the cinematic equivalent of empty calories. Read more

Bob Townsend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: An occasionally amusing but generally dull heist movie. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Like a tropical drink served at a resort bar, After the Sunset looks pretty but has zero kick. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: After the Sunset is content to take in the sights and ogle the ladies. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: An unalloyed delight, bright and breezy escapist fare that's pure entertainment, filled with romance, adventure, humor, action, suspense, beautiful scenery and beautiful people. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A deliberately mindless action comedy that invites us to lose ourselves, without any PC guilt, in its hedonistic enticements. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: After the Sunset is about as flat-footed a heist caper as I've ever seen: clumsy where it should be graceful, lumpy where it should be sleek. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The result is a knowingly preposterous toy thriller -- a sheer escape from consequence. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Thoroughly unremarkable. Read more

David Chute, L.A. Weekly: Instantly forgettable. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: After the Sunset's carat-and-shtick approach is much more decadent than it is delightful. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: At its best, After the Sunset still isn't much more than a bauble. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: When the movie can tear itself away from Lola, it's more of a buddy comedy than a heist film, and a bad one at that. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek play partners-in-crime in a jewel-heist frolic so stale it feels like a retread of a retread. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: One of the worst heist pictures ever. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A film of small moments and big laughs. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: After the Sunset is skillfully made, but it's not necessary. Read more

Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's effective stuff -- as far as it goes. But anyone expecting something more from After the Sunset will feel as if they've been robbed. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The movie floats by like a drunken, mindless afternoon. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: One of the most lackadaisical Hollywood projects of the year. Read more

Anil Sinanan, Time Out: Audiences seeking mild diversion might prefer approaching it as Lola does her new surroundings: 'The challenge is to find joy in simple things'. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: The movie grows progressively more routine in quarter-hour increments, eventually collapsing under the weight of its own insignificance. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: While After the Sunset is never exactly dull and is smartly cut to a brief running time, it never quickens the pulse. Read more

Jorge Morales, Village Voice: To pass the time between the product placements, director Brett Ratner tries to squeeze chuckles out of gay-panic set pieces, the quaint antics of colorful natives, and Woody Harrelson's surreal miscasting as the FBI agent. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: The film is thin, insipid and unconvincing except when it argues for Salma Hayek's beauty. Read more

Jen Chaney, Washington Post: After the Sunset fizzles so quickly that it's hard to care about the answers to any of the cliched mysteries it attempts to solve. Read more