Review of Alpha (2018) by Jdx_Awesome — 25 Aug 2018

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.