After the Sunset

Release Date: November 19th 2004
Distributor: Entertainment
Certificate: 12A
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle
Director: Brett Ratner
Running Time: 100 mins

In a role not completely removed from that of Thomas Crown in 1999’s remake, Pierce Brosnan stars as a thief in the new comedy ‘After The Sunset’.

Well, ex-thief would be more precise actually – he plays Max, a man who has given up his criminal ways to retire to a tropical island with his girlfriend Lola (Hayek). He has secured enough funds to live out the rest of his life in an exotic paradise, and never has to return to stealing again. Well, not unless he wants to...

Trying to get him to do just that is FBI agent Stan Lloyd (Harrelson). To him, Max Burdett is the one he never got to put away, he could never pin him down despite knowing he had a huge list of high value robberies under his belt. What’s more, Lloyd is more than sceptical about Max having gone straight, believing instead that stealing for him is not so much a profession as a vocation – he enjoys doing it, and loves getting away with it. It is with this in mind that Lloyd plans to trick him into returning to the fold, and he has the perfect bait: a huge diamond kept on board a luxury cruise ship known as ‘Diamond of the Seas’. Legend has it that the diamond is from the hilt of Napoleon’s sword, and it is worth millions. Will Max fall into Lloyd’s trap? And can Lloyd resist the temptation himself . . .?

This is a highly enjoyable movie, and Pierce Brosnan’s performance proves that there is life after Bond.