Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

xtian_durden 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.

videorama-759-859391 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.

Mr Black Found this by accident the other day. I've never heard of it and only bought it because I saw it was directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a rather odd film but good. Everyone is basically nuts in this movie. Everyone the main character meets is either crazy or very strange. There's a few things that don't really make a lot of sense. Every person he meets invites them into their apartment. Even the bartender. Although it seems rather strange that you meet a person on a deserted street at 3:00 a.m. and say, "Hey, I live right across the road. Come on up." The only thing I would have changed is the ending. As Paul is now concealed in a plaster of Paris casting, I would have had the thieves sell the statue, with the last shot of Paul on a street corner or in a town square, forever tombed inside the statue. But that's only my version of the ending.!

Bowserb46 Am I crazy, or did this movie run on cable back in the 1990's as a longer, maybe Director's cut, movie? I remembered the movie portraying Paul's adventure being longer, more convoluted, and that I could feel his desperation to get home. I just bought and watched the movie from Amazon, and this 97 minutes falls short of my recollection.I read under trivia that the original cut was 45 minutes longer. While I don't recall it being 2 hours 22 minutes, I still think what I saw was longer than an hour and a half. Seems to me that 45 minutes of Scorsese's best work may have been "left on the cutting room floor!" I really would like to see a Director's Cut of this film. It is too good to have been cut back to TV length.