An Average Movie-Goer’s Review
No spoilers! If you would like spoilers – check out the Spoiler post
I love movies and if I’m going to watch them anyway, why not write an entertaining/funny review from the POV of an average movie-goer and not a professional critic.
Today we’re looking at 2020’s Alone
A woman (Jules Willcox) looking to start over is stalked on a road trip by a stranger (Marc Menchaca) who has kidnapped and killed before.
Is it Scary?
Alone is tense. There are no jump scares but the movie isn’t trying to scare you in that way, it’s main goal is to create a suspenseful nail-biting 90 minutes and, for the most part, it does exactly that. Unless you’re on a road trip alone, you won’t be terrified.
Review:
Alone is great, it’s a well-acted, well-paced, simple suspenseful movie. It’s mainly due to the acting from both leads that the movie works so well. There’s not a lot of dialogue, especially from Jules Willcox’s Jessica but, her body language and facial expressions more than make up for it. Marc Menchaca perfectly portrays a sinister stranger that you’re instantly creeped out by the minute he appears on screen.
The only real downside to Alone, that I can think of, is that it is a very simple minimalistic movie. You have character A trying to escape character B and that’s it. There’s barely any character development, no real character arc, nothing to really make you care about the main character other than something bad is happening to her.
While this is usually a negative in most movies, because Alone is paced well and it’s really a movie about good versus evil, you don’t really notice it. It also doesn’t really matter since we’re not asked by the movie to really care about the characters, we’re only asked to care about what is right and wrong. Does that simplicity make a bad movie? Sometimes, but not in this case.
Alone is a nerve-racking somewhat predictable movie that I definitely recommend.
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