Alpha

Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 17, 2018

6.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 137 Ratings

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TwopirAug 25, 2018

Not a good film. So many things are jarringly inaccurate that I simply couldn’t finish the film. From the clothes to the decisions that are made by the protagonist. To put it simply, he would have eaten the wolf, not made it a pet.

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JDX_AwesomeAug 26, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This movie is boring. The acting is bad. The visuals are all noticeably bad, but the backgrounds looked decent for the most part. The domestication was stupidly simplified to a few interactions. I almost laughed when the one guy ate the ants off of his hand because of how stupid it was. The movie started to pick up a bit about an hour and twenty minutes in, but then it ended. The ending was bad. The twist of the wolf being a female and pregnant was the worst way to do a twist. A good twist in a movie is one where the movie hints at it subtly, without you connecting the dots at first, but once you know the twist, the connect the dots for a cleverly hidden yet satisfying ‘ah-ha’ moment. This movie just kind of realized that there was a plot hole (how do you start the domestication of dogs with just a single wolf that just happened to be hurt and a cave boy that just happened to be kind and stupid?) and said ‘this works, I guess’. Also, if this were realistic, the wolf would’ve been eaten by the cave boy. And the part where the cave boy finds a frozen cave man, he takes his bow and just one arrow. Why only one arrow? You’re telling me that this cave man only had one arrow on him? Also, the cave boy was starving to death at this point, so why didn’t he eat the dead cave man? No one would’ve found out. And cannibalism doesn’t seem like an issue in this situation anyway. Overall, this was boring and I almost fell asleep.… Expand

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BroyaxAug 23, 2019

ça commence avec une chasse au bison... une chasse dont la méthode laisse perplexe : on se demande en effet si on se fout de nous et si oui, pourquoi aussi ouvertement ? puis ça continue et ça remet le couvert si j'ose dire... à croire que leça commence avec une chasse au bison... une chasse dont la méthode laisse perplexe : on se demande en effet si on se fout de nous et si oui, pourquoi aussi ouvertement ? puis ça continue et ça remet le couvert si j'ose dire... à croire que le fim entier est un dîner dont tous les spectateurs éventuels sont les invités ! mais d'ailleurs, le film n'est-il pas sorti un mercredi ?

Donc, le jeune con, fils du chef de la tribu, le jeune benêt qui n'ose pas égorger un cochon (pardon, un sanglier) -peut-être parce qu'il est végan ce petit con ?- le jeune devient un Rambo improvisé et futur gagnant de Koh Lanta, dans le même esprit que l'autre film qui nous prenait pour des jambons, The Revenant... je ne vais pas détailler tout ce qu'il fait, Superman, mais... non il ne vole pas ! Mais c'est tout juste parce que c'était trop "voyant", ils ont dit. Quand même.

Bref, malgré les beaux paysages (numériques) et les bestiaux souvent... agressifs (bah ouais quand même, y a 20 000 ans...) et numériques eux aussi mais à budget plus limité hélas, malgré son côté carte postale, Alpha prend un peu trop les gens pour des cons (quasiment tout le temps en fait) et ça, c'est rédhibitoire. On veut bien faire "meuh" ou "bêêh" mais avec un minimum de respect.… Expand

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TheLordofMiceJul 19, 2020

The dog was cute, the rest of the movie felt like what you would get if Joe Rogan wrote the story about how man domesticated dogs.

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