Review of Alpha Dog (2006) by Brad G — 01 Feb 2012

If you watch the documentary on the disc, it's obvious that the filmmakers felt it incredibly important to tell this story of upper class teenagers and the climactic predetermined murder. It's a sad story of damnation and definitely hard to watch thanks to a batch of young actors who throw themselves wholeheartedly into their roles.

..that being said, their bravado also rings Hollywood false to me or at least the film reaches levels of eye-rolling melodrama. I think that has less to do with the Justin Timberlakes, Emile HIrsches, Olivia Wildes, Amanda Heards, Anton Yelchins, Amanda Seyfrieds and more to do with the endless run of ridiculously ignorant Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone parents.

I don't doubt that the parents of these gangsta youths were criminally negligent in their (lack of) parenting skills, but it reaches a point in the film where you just wish they'd stay the hell out.

Sharon Stone's fatsuit monologue being the final nail in the "We Get It!" coffin. Ben Foster does have an impressively scaryass beatdown fight scene though. VF.