I enjoyed watching the core character played very well by Kodi Smit-McPhee, but the movie itself doesn't allow him to reach his full potential. While it doesn't do anything to hurt the film as a whole, the fact that this movie is so streamlined from beginning to end, makes for an uninteresting viewing experience. This leads me to my biggest negative of the movie. Whatever you may expect to happen from that description, will happen. There really isn't much more to the film than that. They slowly form a friendship that will lead to helping each other survive the harsh realities of life.
Left to survive on his own, he meets a wolf who has been separated from his/her pack. This movie follows a young man as he is thrust into hunting with his tribe and is mourned when he is thought to be dead. In the end, this film ended up being a nice mixture of every trailer it put out, so I wasn't too surprised in a negative way. This doesn't bother me, but it should come as a caution for those who are unaware. Despite the Sony-owned studio Columbia Pictures distributing it, there isn't a single line of English dialogue spoken throughout the course of the movie. Upon reflection of its trailers, I came to realize that not a single line of dialogue was spoken in most trailers and that's due to the fact that the film isn't in English. With trailers showcasing this film as an epic with great battle sequences over a year ago, to having the film pushed to almost a year later, to then releasing new trailers that display this film as a family adventure between a boy and his dog, this has been a roller coaster of marketing. Here's why Alpha deserves a little more attention than it's receiving, but also why certain audiences may be turned away upon first glance. That being said, there are a few cautionary aspects that I feel the need to warn about, so my thoughts on the movie as a whole aren't going to be entirely positive.
Alpha is among the latest in the survival film category and while it definitely is a movie that plays it safe, it's an effective little movie that I believe some audiences will eat up. Whether it feels dragged out or downright unbelievable in terms of what a human being can really handle, I've only really been blown away by a few of them. In my opinion, survival films are among the most challenging films to pull off.
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