a popcorn flick for sure and brett ratner after the sunset get so wrap up in show u exotic locale and sunny beach and gorgeous woman ok and one stunningly beautiful woman that it often seem more like a travelogue than a heist caper . screenwriter paul zbyszewski and craig rosenberg try to mix a buddy picture with a heist film and wind up with something not wholly satisfactory and a film devoid of any real surprise or grit . true and they have some attractive star . but they also need an engaging story . after the sunset be suppose to be breezy fun . we accept what happen on screen because we want to . after all and if we think too much about it and the opening sequence would make little sense . it also a set up for a late payoff . unfortunately and that just another of many cinematic clichés that riddle this film . this film desperately want to be different . it want to tell u not about the planning and execution of a heist and but what happen when two robber max burdett ( pierce brosnan ) and lola cirillo ( salma hayek ) retire to a gorgeous island away from fbi jurisdiction and find out paradise isn not exactly all that it cut out to be and that robber get bore . well and at least one do . fine and but then give u something excite and a story we can get involve with . brosnan play max much like he play bond suave and light . harrelson mug most of the time and don cheadle and the best of the bunch and be waste in a role that have tremendous possibility . the lovely hayek the film strong asset . clad in tight dress and bikini and show off plunge neckline and she strut about the screen ooze charm and sexuality . she even make build a deck look hot . and when all else fails and she lean forward to allow u to glimpse her cleavage . that about as exciting a this caper get . although the film about an fbi agent ( woody harrelson ) tail max because he convince the crook be go to steal the third napoleon diamond from a visit cruise ship and this really isn not a cat and mouse picture . that would have be something to turn this into a battle of wit between two fiercely competitive and charm men . instead and the writer rely on unfunny bonding ritual replete with homophobic joke and one liner that do not have any zing to propel their story . throw harrelson and brosnan in bed together for a lame sequence be what count as funny to the writer and director . lackadaisically direct by ratner and who make the rush hour film and turn red dragon ( 2002 ) into simply another serial killer flick and after the sunset just doesn not know when to quit . it a if ratner and the writer keep thinking of ending until they find one they like . and then they put them all in . what even more galling be that these chap be so sloppy and unoriginal and they devise the most hackneyed end to a crucial shoot out . what this boil down to be terrible and by the number storytelling and film making . not only be the actor seemingly merely go through the motion and but so be the director and the writer . when it come to heist film and give me the asphalt jungle ( 1950 ) and rififi ( 1955 ) and the killing ( 1956 ) or topkapi ( 1964 ) any day . forty and fifty year later and these film remain gritty and fun and exciting and entertain a they ever be .