Martin Scorsese: Ranking His Movies From Worst To Best

9. After Hours

Martin Scorsese's first movie in over a decade which didn't star Robert De Niro is also one of his most unique and intriguing; a Kafkaesque nightmare with an underscore of satire permeating throughout, it stars Griffin Dunne as Yuppie worker Paul Hackett who finds himself in a series of increasingly frustrating and surreal encounters as he tries to make his way home. There's something about a city in the dead of night which opens up endless possibilities for movies - the weirdos crawl out from the shadows and the rules go out of the window, affording a paranoia-inducing landscape in which anything can happen, and more often than not that "anything" isn't a good thing. Scorsese makes the most of this approach in After Hours, injecting it with a strain of dark comedy unusual for the director. After Hours is one of those happy accidents which might never have happened. Originally intended to be a Tim Burton project, Scorsese ended up taking over after production on The Last Temptation of Christ ran up against problems. Burton's version would no doubt have been significantly different.