This was such a bad movie. And I'm not saying it just for the sake of hating on it, so here are a few reasons why I thought it was terrible:
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- First of all, the actor who plays Hardin was just... I don't know. I can't even find words to describe it. I thought his acting was okay in the first movie, but this second movie he seemed to get worse. I'm still not over him yelling "Fucking Trevor?!" to a half naked Dylan Sprouse.
- The storyline is a mess. Actually, there's no storyline at all. She starts her internship, somehow gets back with a guy who made a BET with his friends to get her and suddenly she's all about him to the point we rarely see proof of her being an intern anymore.
- They fight for the stupidest stuff. Like actually, in a functioning relationship, you talk to each other and try to get through your misunderstandings before storming off and breaking stuff.
- Her agreeing to "fake it" for his mom? When she was supposedly so pissed off at what he had done to her?
- The storyline of her and her mom at the beginning. That was all there was to it? She just knew her mom had hidden the fact that her father was looking for her and just completely forgot about it?
- "We can sleep in the same bed, we're not neanderthals". Cue you know what.
- Hardin's half brother just stepping into everyone's business all the time and out of nowhere? Why?
- This movie has every single bad cliché to the point it's excruciatingly predictable. She's an English major, working for a publishing firm, who loves the "bad boy with tattoos", gets back together with him even though he's a mess, but she's got mommy issues and he's got daddy issues, cue the rather decent looking coworker who makes him question her, the friend from the past who makes her question him, the endless text messages and missed calls, the car accident while looking for him, the New Year's party with a cat fight, etc.
C
Lastly, I'll speak about the only thing I actually enjoyed in this movie: the boss and Candice King's characters actually being a thing and ending up together. Now that was cute, especially envolving the kid. 2 points for that and the effort of the main actress.
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After We Collided is fond of quoting Wuthering Heights, but it owes more to Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey (the novel, called After, whose film adaptation this is the sequel to, originally appeared on Wattpad, where every asshole can publish regardless of whether or not they should).

Unlike Heathcliff and Catherine (and by extension Romeo and Juliet, begetters of all modern star-crossed lovers), though, Tessa (Josephine Langford) and Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) have absolutely no impediment to their being together other than that they are totally wrong for each other.

The only chemistry between the two is sexual; After We Collided is much more lubricious than Twilight, but a lot less risqué than 50 Shades — that is, there’s lots of implied sex but very little nudity. Since there is no reason for these two to be together, we don't give two craps if they aren't.

Not that the movie doesn’t try to manufacture such a reason; for example, Emotionally Scarred Bad Boy Hardin (Tiffin may be Ralph Fiennes’s nephew, but comes across more as a young, Brittish-accented Joshua Jackson) has nightmares, but they stop when he starts dating Tessa. This is is total nonsense; sleeping with someone doesn’t equal sleeping better.

But that’s the film’s naïve Love Conques All mentality. Love may indeed conquer many things, but an inert, lethargic plot is not one of them. The only part of the script that doesn't ring hollow is the title, which is very appropriate because the action, such as it is, completely lacks urgency. Nothing is resolved now, everything is left for later — to the point that two sequels were in the works at the time of this one’s release.

I've sat through much more painful slogs, but 'After we Collided' gave me two hours of insane plot - and while I forgot everything as soon as I left, I'll be back over the next couple of years just to enjoy my cheesy mess in this strange unnecessary franchise.
- Chris dos Santos

Read Chris' full article...
https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-after-we-collided-wattpad-returns-to-the-screen-for-slightly-better-still-dumb-results