Some months from now, some insomniac will be streaming the new movie "After the Hunt" and will be sound asleep within minutes, and then worry that the coma this movie puts you in might never end.
After the Hunt is entirely about PHD candidates and professors at Yale University in the year 2019. Julia Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, a professor of philosophy, who is married to Frederik Imhoff who is a psychiatrist played by Michael Stuhlbarg but is also having an affair with Hank, another philosophy professor who later in this story is accused of raping a PHD student, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri).
Given that the main part of this story is a he-said-she-said conflict, amazingly, all these well-named successful actors agreed to act in this long and boring movie, but stunningly, this simple storyline dragged on for a nightmare 2 hours and 18 minutes. There are attempts at filler side stories, including Dr. Kim Sayers (Chloë Sevigny), who is friends with Alma Imhoff and is a student/faculty liaison at the university, but her presence in this film has almost no significance. The worst part of this bad movie is the too many scenes of chain smoking, once again, a decision the producer made to fund this movie, probably because the script was so bad, they could not get money anywhere else.
The merciful ending includes a scene with Alma, who is in the hospital for an ulcer condition, and provides a major revelation about an event in her childhood that tries to tie together with the story, which also mostly fails, along with this movie, which, despite some scenes of good acting, is a big miss.
The very low 38 and falling ratings on Rotten Tomatoes for this extremely long and boring movie are correct this time around. This one should be missed by everybody, except for the most die-hard insomniacs.
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