Aftershock
Dimension Films | Release Date: May 10, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
9
Negative:
8
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38
USA TodayClaudia PuigMay 10, 2013
It's an unrelentingly brutal movie set in an unusually scenic locale — the coastal city of Valparaiso, Chile. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineAbhimanyu DasMay 7, 2013
There's plenty of gore, but none of it is particularly inventive, nor does it engender any visceral or emotional reactions beyond jaded disgust. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 11, 2013
If all this sounds outrageous, and extreme … don’t worry, it’s not. Provocation coupled with ineptitude doesn’t reveal the ugliness of humanity; it simply reveals the ugliness of the filmmakers themselves. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithMay 9, 2013
A weird mash-up of disaster, horror and dystopia genre pictures, Aftershock fails to make the Earth move. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedMay 7, 2013
The actual Chilean earthquake killed 300 people and turned thousands more homeless, but this movie distills everything for comic effect. Everyone gets robbed, raped, impaled, mutilated, decapitated or burned alive. But that’s not all. Crawling through the blood-drenched debris, here comes the tsunami! Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMay 10, 2013
A lot of Aftershock predictably involves screaming or shock cuts, and the movie features a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo from Selena Gomez. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMay 9, 2013
Lopez is a middling ringmaster of doom at best. But there's so little context to the litany of ugliness — some played for laughs, some meant to shock — that it's hard to discern where the entertainment value lies in any of this. Read full review
20
Village VoiceChuck WilsonMay 9, 2013
Aftershock is incompetently made and morally muddled, but since talent, morality, and Mr. Roth have never been on speaking terms, we're not exactly surprised. Read full review
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