Alienate
Alienate
| 22 February 2016 (USA)
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A couple on the brink of ending their marriage spend a weekend in different cities. After a cataclysmic event strikes, the husband embarks on a physical and emotional quest to return home as a nation prepares for the worst.

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Michael Ledo

The film opens with aliens killing humans and then we flash back to before the attack. Dave (Blake Webb) has a female boss and works a lot. His wife Amy (Tatum Langton) who has put her career on hold feels alienated. They are on the verge of breaking up. Dave has to fly to Denver for business with a loner friend who feels alienated at the end of the world. When things hit the fan, David attempts to get back to Amy as she awaits for him. Yes, two minutes ago they were going to divorce, now they can't imagine spending their last seconds on earth with someone else. He encounters a farmer that feels alienated and people who just stand there and don't move as they feel alienated. I think we got the theme.The film uses various flashback techniques, including flashbacks within flashbacks and running scenes over again. It proved to be confusing in a film that was otherwise boring lacking alien attack scenes that one might expect peeking at cover art.There have been various end of the world films that were used to demonstrate aspects of the human psyche. In fact all good end of times movies do that to some degree. However when you use it to near exclusion of all science fiction, you need to have an "A" game and headliners. This film didn't have any of that. It was simply boring. No swearing, sex, or nudity.Note to self: When leaving the house is a bad idea. Stay inside.

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alphaswift

90% boring, 10% "I'll stick this out and see what happens". Spoiler Alert: Nothing good happens next. Do not waste your time.

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Ferd Berfel

the entire cast was sleepwalking through this turkey. It rates right up there with Plan 9 From Outer Space for really bad scifi. I have to type in five lines or they won't publish the review. How many ways can I say yuck, boring, terrible, a total waste of time and money to view it, and about a hundred other similar words. If you can't sleep, this is the cure.

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Arch Stanton

OK, I get it. When you have the desire to write and make a movie but don't have the Hollywood connections or greenbacks to make it an A-level movie, you do the best you can and you surprise everyone with a great B- movie. This wasn't the case. This was a complete dog turd. Waaaay too much time spent flashing back, flashing forward, flashing sideways. There was so much flashing I had a seizure! I would sue the filmmakers, but I mean, seriously, there is no way in hell this movie turned a profit. Even with the writers, producers, and actors forcing their family members to go to the theater to see it. How about a couple of flashbacks and then keep the rest of the story line linear? Huh? How about that? The lead chump was such a moron I wanted to beat him over the head with that sledgehammer he used to whack that one alien. If breathing weren't involuntary, that moron would have asphyxiated a long time ago. Does this moron not understand the rule about picking up bizarre weirdos on the side of the highway in the middle of the night? I really had to laugh at that. Then, he does it again with that chick in the middle of the road. Too bad that farmer Brown with his straw hat wasn't a better shot with his gun. He would have done all of us a favor. Now, I gotta admit, his wife was a cutie- patootie, but ultimately just another empty-headed bimbo. And once again here's a chance where the director could have earned at least a little thumbs up had he given the audience a nice gratuitous booty shot of her when she was in the shower. But he didn't. Blown opportunity! And what was the deal with all the airplanes falling out of the sky? How about explain that a bit? And then the ending. Holy crap!!! I wanted to kick in my television screen. If anybody can forward me the address of the writer or director of this embarrassment, please do, I'll find him and waterboard him to within inches of his life. This movie didn't know what the hell it wanted to be so, as is readily apparent, the writers and producers simply ripped off Close Encounters, Signs, The X-Files, War of the Worlds, and Battle Los Angeles and made an awful hodge-podge, hot mess, puke-o-rama of a "movie". But this movie? Jeez, this movie makes some of those Syfy channel "Asylum" movies look like Oscar gold. For the love of God, don't waste your time watching this!

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