#Aftermath 2017 movie
As movie stars go, he’s a charisma-driven supernova, almost Incredible Hulk-like in his emotional simplicity: Make Hulk angry, and Hulk smash! But “Aftermath” demands one of those brooding, black-hole actors who sucks up all the energy in the room, going somewhere so dark, you can’t help but share their pain. Everything else suggests an unnatural attempt to reposition the one-time action star as a serious thespian, providing further opportunity for Arnold to try some of that capital-A Acting that proved the best surprise of his post-gubernatorial zombie movie “Maggie.”īut Roman is a very specific kind of role, one that calls for a performer with an ability to convey inner torment, and that’s ultimately beyond Schwarzenegger’s rather limited range. You’ll have to watch “Aftermath” to discover whether Roman takes the same route, but suffice it to say, the confrontation between the two men allows for the only remotely Schwarzeneggerian moment in the whole movie, which is otherwise a drab, desaturated affair.
“Aftermath” was inspired by the real-life Überlingen mid-air collision, a 2002 incident in which the blame was placed on the tower crew, inspiring a Russian man whose family perished in the accident to murder an air traffic controller in front of his wife and kids. What matters to Gullón and director Elliott Lester is the suffering of the survivors - and not just Roman, but also the man “responsible” for their deaths and those of everyone on board both planes. What were Roman’s wife and daughter thinking in their final moments? Did they suffer?ĭoesn’t matter. The most vicariously beneficial: “Fearless,” in which we can vicariously identify with doomed passengers coming to peace with a disaster beyond their control. Air travel offers a nearly universal anxiety, and movies about worst-case travel scenarios can both feed and alleviate our own personal fear of flying, as movies such as “Flight,” “Final Destination,” and “Alive” have done. Perhaps it’s macabre of audiences to want to see carnage. It’s like the downer version of “Sully” - call it “Sullen” - where we never meet the passengers (who don’t survive anyway), and the screenwriter instead decides to dwell on two men who never left the ground: air traffic controller Jake ( Scoot McNairy) and grieving parent Roman (Schwarzenegger), who lost his wife and pregnant daughter in the off-camera crash. But “Aftermath” is one of those mopey coping-with-grief movies in which the characters grapple with intense emotions, while audiences feel nothing. Certainly, screenwriter Javier Gullón did more with less in “Enemy,” a psychologically rich character study in which Jake Gyllenhaal dealt with a man who might have been his doppelganger. There’s no boom, no screaming passengers, no great big whoosh as cocktails and carry-on bags get sucked out a gaping hole in the cabin - just the aftermath, which in this case, entails a bedraggled-looking Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to make sense of his loss.
Instead, the closest we get is a scene set in the control tower, where a computer screen shows two triangles headed straight toward one another until both glow red and then disappear from the monitor altogether. Big O & Mike Verna defeated Mr.“Aftermath” is a plane crash movie without a plane crash.Big O (c) vs Mike Verna for the NYWC Fusion Championship resulted in a No Contest.The Benson Brothers ( Brad Benson & CJ Benson) defeated Milk Chocolate ( Brandon Watts & Randy Summers).General Romero vs JT Kasin resulted in a No Contest.(c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match. Results Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match. NYWC April Reign 2017 NYWC Aftermath 2017 took place in Deer Park, New York.
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