Alpha
A dramatic epic film that spins around the biography of a young fellow, who amid his first trip of chasing amid the Ice Age, he contends with his gathering, who left him injured and desolate, and when he awakens, he finds that he should rely upon himself to figure out how to survive, yet occurrences come to move him, when he becomes friends with a forlorn wolf, with whom he battles against discovering the best approach to home before the serious winter.
6 December 1963, Stockholm
1 June 1937, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
19 January 1974, Oslo, Norway
28 July 1987, Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
29 December 1972, Santiago, Chile
13 June 1996, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
August 24, 2018
Smit-McPhee has to do most of the heavy lifting, and he does so with such magnetism, he puts the aurora borealis sequence to shame.
August 24, 2018
Alpha is splendidly photographed, nicely paced, and allows us to imagine what it must have been like to live short, brutal, vivid lives surrounded by natural predators.
August 24, 2018
It's a type of film which doesn't get made anymore. Watch it for its uniqueness as well as the warm-hearted tale it unfolds...
August 24, 2018
Alpha is a stirring top-tier adventure.
August 16, 2018
Seeing Alpha on as big and splashy a screen as possible is advisable, preferably with children who can handle occasional scenes of intense peril.
August 24, 2018
...When you're starting from scratch, claw and bite, there's a lot of trust-building that has to happen. Not just between the animal and the human, but between film and the audience. For recreating the boy and his dog story... Alpha gets a cookie.
August 16, 2018
You know Sheila the She-Wolf from "Glow" on Netflix? "Alpha" would be her favorite movie.
August 17, 2018
Evidently, facts aren't terribly important here (even the movie's title comes from a civilization that's still millennia away), but if you can get past that, there's a moderately gripping tale of survival and natural kinship to be had.
August 24, 2018
It's basically The Revenant meets Barbara Woodhouse, with a hefty dollop of schmaltz, full of clichés...and hilariously portentous subtitled dialogue.
August 17, 2018
There's a pleasant, old-fashioned feel to Alpha. It plays like one of those Disneynature movies with sharper edges.
August 16, 2018
The story is straightforward, directional, a direct but difficult path from danger to safety, punctuated by life-threatening adventures. What could have made other storytellers stir-crazy seems to have unleashed something philosophical in Albert Hughes.
August 24, 2018
A work of great imagination but devoid of wasteful excess, grounding his straightforward tale in recognizable human-and animal-behaviors.
