Reviews

The film is ok, the effects are brilliant and are nice to watch but the story is a let down. There are way too many holes throughout that to me just don't make sense or aren't believable. I get sci-fi films aren't real and believable but the world being built should be and this world isn't.

To start off a nuke goes off in LA, yeah sure that's a good reason to hate AI for America. But why does that mean the whole world unites and goes to war with AI and that they can just bombs and kill anything anywhere they like. And why is it that the world is at war with AI but only America is shown with the tech or weapons? Sure the big spaceship was a joint effort to stop them yet is American owned.

The AI themselves seem to just be stupid too. At one point an AI gets choked out then shot, while being choked he struggles. It's a robot! They don't breathe why are you struggling when you are choked, the most advanced bit of technology in the world and you panic from being choked?! Just hurt the guy who is choking you with your AI powers and get out of it.

The AI also have one tiny cable that goes from their head to their shoulders outside of their neck and that turns them off, rendering them completely useless. Why?! Again they are supposed to be this incredibly piece of tech and they didn't think oh we have this weakness built into us let me just put something around it to stop someone from turning me off in the most crucial moments.

Then we get to the shooting. A guy on a bridge about 50 yards away, clear shot, easy to hit even for an amateur. 10+ AI miss countless shots at him, AI that should have aim bot installed in their head by now, miss a shot countless times that is straight in front of them.

Giant tanks just appear and attack a civilian town that happen to have some AI in. What world organisation is letting them just blast anything they like, like sure I know war crimes happen and no one does a thing about it in the real world. But come on who is letting America just do what they want in Asia, where is the rest of the world?

Some AI are just strange, why are the old monk AI? Sure it is supposed to show they are peaceful and just want to live to. But at the end of the day someone did program it to be a monk, why?!

There are a lot more examples like this throughout the film and it just made the world so unbelievable to me and ruined it. The writing could have been done a lot better and kind of comes off that they used AI to write with.

Was really excited to watch this film as the trailer made it look awesome. Sadly the actual film was mid tier at best with many plot holes, annoying characters, obvious story and random camera shots.

I didn't understand why sometimes the shot would just blur, I though it would focus on something important. But nope just blur the whole shot for no reason.

Spoilers beyond here**

The characters could have been great, I liked some of them but they just weren't defined at all and I felt no attachment to them. When they died, which was like 10 minutes per character death for no reason, I just thought yeah next saw that coming.

But the most annoying character is the daughter. Why is she even in the movie? Would have been better to not have her in the film at all. She gets everyone killed, makes stupid decisions and runs off all line to save someone she doesn't actually care about at all. At the end of the film she is in a helicopter crash and survives without injury (baring in mind a nuke cause the heli to crash too) and I completely forgot about the friend she rescued and she was never mentioned again. Literally just a plot filler.

Everyone is insanely good at shooting, every shot is a head shot... until it matters and then they turn into the worst shot.

Then the plot points come in... the biggest one being at the end the guy survives a nuclear blast in a vault which yeah maybe you can do. But to then walk out in the radiated zone straight after and of course he is bitten. People are shown to change in to a zombie with a minute or so, he didn't change for at least a whole day maybe two.

Then there is this one scene in the casino, a zombie gets shot in the head and it explodes. However it's almost like he was a robot. I don't know if this is an Easter egg or something but it was a robot/Android.

It's not all bad though I liked some of the characters though I can't remember their names in the movie. The zombies were very cool as well, loved the idea of the clever ones but again just wasn't developed as much as I would like. Such as the zombie baby.

The action was great, just shooting and killing with bodies exploding. Hard to f up that.

Thought this film might be good because the trailer look alright. But that was a massive lie. My biggest problem with this film is why is there no oxygen? Plants get CO2 and then produce O2 from that, so why have they all died out and why can those "scientists" not keep them alive in a lab. Yet can make a time machine powered by nuclear fusion. The whole story is flawed from the start. The main character has this stupid little mustache you grow when you first develop facial hair so you don't shave it off to feel like an adult. And his acting wasn't the best, wasn't the worst either. The dialogue was bad, just plain bad. If they main guy isn't crying and screaming for what feels like no reason then he just says brother or Jude. The effects where ok. Back to the story and with spoilers so don't read anymore if you want to avoid them. The main character gets a chunky bracelet forced on him by his dad because it locks his DNA to the time machine. They have a time machine yet the dad still needs this huge hunk of junk to lock his sons DNA? Not just a sample of his blood? After some random crying and screaming on a roof which looked like an attempt to show off some effects the MC goes to the future to find a cure for some disease that isn't explained at all as well as find a way to get more oxygen. After arriving 400 years in the future he picks up a random berry not knowing anything about it, eats it and then dies from poisoning. Only to be saved by his best mate who conveniently got sent to the future to save him from this poison. They wander into the now overgrown city and find his wife's remains at her work. 400 years into the future and her bones that are left out in the elements are still there and intact perfectly. The MC cries because she is dead...400 years into the future?! Of course she is dead she was ill to start off with and it is way in the future what were you expecting, her to magically be alive and waiting for you?! They go back to the time machine fight a bit because it was all a set up by the big boss, who would have thought. He wins, big boss is unhappy in the past and arrested. MC sends plants back in the time machine and everything is fixed. They failed to save plants in a lab but a few randomly shoved into a time machine conveniently saves the world. So many plot holes and unexplained points leaving you feeling annoyed you say through the whole film.

I really enjoyed #Alive, it can be hard to find good zombie films that aren't cliche or poorly done. But this film did almost everything right! It has a good story with only one predictable part but I will get into that later. The acting was great with likeable characters and the camera/editing/sound was great too nothing that takes you away from the film. The pace of the movie can be slow at times but then suddenly switch into action packed scenes that keep you on edge. Definitely worth a watch if you like zombie films and don't mind subtitles.

Now for the spoilers so don't read any further if you don't want to see spoilers.

The predictable part seems to happen in every zombie movie, they meet someone else and that person tries to kill them for one reason or another such as feeding his zombie wife. Even though it was predictable it didn't take away from the film.