Too much of everything

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

A minor work from Scorsese, but remarkably underrated. This mid-80s film is an exercise of style and pure filmmaking from a director who was frustrated when his passion project was delayed again and again. Instead of letting his own disappointments absorb him, he focused all his energy in this low-budget dark comedy about one man's incredibly disappointing and ill-fated night in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. Working with skillful German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus (a frequent collaborator of R.W. Fassbinder), the film was shot at night with a feeling of strange perplexity and a sense of paranoia that had occupied not only the effective actor Griffin Dunne but also the viewers, using crafty camera improvisations to make that effect.The film is thoroughly engaging and it works like a dream – it has no intention of explaining itself, and as the title suggests; it is meant to be watched after midnight.

I don't know why Scorsese made this film. It's a question that quietly plagued me intermittently throughout. Normally he has points to his movies, or they're based on serious issues, or factual stuff, here, besides mocking up what New York can be like at night, where it can be crazy in the day too, it was a really kind of aimless, yet very attracting movie, with good performances to boot. I felt the same way about U Turn, when compared to Oliver Stone's other films. It's great to see Dunne, a really good actor, in the lead, which he does justice, but the other actors, who are just as good, should be credited too, especially O'Hara as one wild chick, with uncontrollable fits of giggles, one crazy, among a collection of strange people, poor luckless Dunne, meets on his night travels, where he simply should of stayed at home. I can't say After Hours is a good movie, or give it the thumbs up, but it is weirdly, or you could say uniquely entertaining, but seeing this is from Scorsese, it makes it a let down or disappointing as in quality. It's a movie that has you questioning, "Did that director really make this". The score I really liked, where it really fit the mood, while Dunne's performance was another thing. To make or carry the story along, it relies on strange offbeat characters and too many coincidences, but it is a satire, don't forget, sort of. What potency and importance underneath the satire can't be taken seriously because of those two things.

This is much more like a Jim Jarmusch film then one from Martin Scorese. Quirky, absurd, surreal, basically plot-less. A random guy meets several attractive women, one after the other, all in one night, who invite him to their homes, and he proceeds to verbally assault each of them for no particular reason--one of them even commits suicide as a result. As a result of several strange coincidences, everyone is Soho is trying to kill him, but it seems to me that he deserves it for the way he treated the women. Yes, mildly amusing, but my time would be have been better spent reading a good book. A "C" is the best grade I can give it.

"After Hours" bristles with its own distinct energy, which is partially why I love this movie. Even the quiet scene are riding a caffeine buzz and that only ices a cake this absurd. It boasts a pretty great cast, each bringing their own brand of crazy to the table (Catherine O'Hara's my favorite, inciting a lynch mob in her Mister Softee truck). Watching this movies is like stumbling into someone's fevered dream. It's not just that Griffin Dunne can't get back home, but all of these ridiculous situations are bizarrely connected. If it ain't one thin, it's another with this movie. And just when you think there's nowhere left to go with this story, Scorsese flips the tables yet again (once more down the rabbit hole).It's madness, but thoroughly entertaining.8/10