#Alive (2020)

Disappointing

I gave this a watch over the Halloween season..I thought the premise seemed interesting and so far I’ve been pretty impressed by Korea’s depictions of zombies.

I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t like this too much lol.
It’s just a series of the main character making stupid decisions..yes, a common complaint of the horror genre, but it was pretty hard to suspend disbelief on this one.

Seeing people getting eaten alive outside and hearing disturbing sounds from your hallway? Open the door!

Doomed woman outside getting eaten alive? Yell out your window and attract zombies to your apartment!

Family is murdered? Go outside and YELL in the zombies faces!

Has a gun at a critical moment and doesn’t use it only to use it later unnecessarily and attract every zombie in radius? Perfect logic

Watch several people die at the hands of a few zombies down below? Drop into a sea of them and clumsily fight them off!

Find a dead body right outside your door that just so happened to have lived in the building and just so happened to have his key on him and you just so happened to know where the apartment was...convenient.

Find a whole wall of climbing equipment? Only take the Nutella and Walkie Talkie!

Also, why does he have electricity but the other apartments don’t?

And the list goes on....

Only saving grace was the makeup and special effects.

Leia Mais

Amazing movie

This is a great movie. I will suggest people watch it and decide for themselves instead of listening to other people's opinions.
I was pleasantly surprised because I'm not a fan of zombie movies but this one is really good.
I think the lesson to be gotten from it is survival. They didn't focus on trying to tell us what disease caused people to become zombies, they only tried to tell us what we can do if we ever find ourselves in such situation.
I applaud how they showed us that the leads almost gave up and didn't paint them as strong people.
They are just two people that gave strength to each other at a low point in their lives.

Leia Mais

Too Slow For Me...

A quieter, smaller zombie film which harkens to today's COVID quarantine climate which although technically good was a bit too slow and sparse for my taste. For much of the running time, my mind drifted and I was slightly bored, but this film was only 1.5 hours so I stuck it out. Of course, comparison will be made with Train to Busan, which I found to be much better in terms of story, emotion and payoff. #Alive was a bit too anticlimatic for me. There were a few plot points that I wasn't sure about like why the FL would risk her life to join the ML or why they both want to reach the 'empty' 8th floor. If you really like zombie films, I would give this a try, but if not, you can skip it...

Leia Mais

not really a spoiler in the review but just in case...

With movies and show like Train to Busan 2 and Kingdom this just falls flat in comparison. It is not a bad movie. It's decent. Not amazing or great. Just good.
When I first saw the trailer I was really excited about it. It looked amazing. Kind of gave me Dead Days - webtoon- vibe. And I was so into watching this. I couldn't wait to find it and watch.
But now that I have, I realized how amazing this movie could had been if they had just changed a few things.
The acting was good as always. Nothing on that.
The story however was just badly done. Like few times in the movie the plot just didn't even made sense. Seriously running through a road full of zombies but not even a scratch on the MC? ...........
This had the nicest zombies I had ever seen in a movie. Only bites in the neck and runs so damn slow, that it gives out MC's enough time to think, plot and execute a plan.
I am not gonna re-watch it. Once is enough.

Leia Mais

Well, It's certainly no Train to Busan...

Recently, Korea has produced some of the most critically acclaimed disaster/zombie sensations in recent history such as Flu, Train to Busan, and Kingdom. Unfortunately, this movie is far from any of these. With such little backstory, there is hardly any emotional depth to the story - the terror, the humanity, the urgency which made these productions so thrilling are incredibly lacking. Rather, all of these elements serve as the backdrop for a romance theme. As much as I love the cast, the directors are clearly just bandwagoning and using them for quick money. Incredibly disappointing.

Leia Mais

A STRAIGHTFORWARD ZOMBIE MOVIE

I expected the movie will be 2 hours long but its really only 1 hour and minutes something and I am those people who thought that the main plot will be happening around the half minutes of the movie but in my surprise afttaco buy painter like 5 to 10 minutes the outbreak of zombies occured. The ending is okay because they are safe now in the zombies that had spread on their apartments, if you going to ask me the possibility is not high enough to have a season 2 (they may or not may add a season 2) depending if they are satisfied in the ending which the infected people are less than 50,000 and through social media they can track people who needs to be save.

Leia Mais

This is a good movie. Everything seemed realistic and nothing was too over the top. But I have to say, the zombies felt a bit underwhelming, especially comparing it to other Korean zombie films of recent years. The movie itself is more on how to survive and the struggles that come with it. You don't really get much of a storyline outside of this surviving a zombie apocalypse plot. If you've watched EXIT ( Jo Jung Suk and Yoona) before you might find it similar to #Alive.

Nothing much can really be said about the movie as I felt there was nothing complicated about the movie in any aspect. All in all, it was fairly good.

Leia Mais

It's not over until it's over

I don't usually want to rate stuff unless it's over 8. However, I just can't bring myself to rate this more than 7 at the same time I think this is still worth seeing. It was still very engaging and it made me wonder what's going to happen next.

There's something missing though but I can't pinpoint exactly what it is.

So if you like zombie movies, this is definitely a must-see. The whole flow was good but nothing outstanding apart from both the actors' performance. I think it has something to do about the whole timeline of when and how fast things happened that disrupted it a bit for me.

I'm glad I watched it though, definitely something good to engage yourself in for an hour and a half.

Leia Mais

So the concept of #Alive is very similar to Train to Busan, but less intense. It was a bit slow in the beginning because the story is very character focused. Our MMC is couped up in his house for weeks before we even meet the other main character, the FMC. It kind of has a survivalist feel to it in the beginning, which was a bit slow, yet not entirely boring.

Once we meet the FMC, things really pick up. Their interactions were nice and the way the story evolves with them working together was cool.

The last 30 minutes had me on the edge of my seat - I wasn't sure if they'd make it or not (after Train to Busan, I have trust issues XD). I loved the ending, even if it's unlikely. I don't care! It was a great way to finish the story.

Overall, if you like zombie movies, I'd say, obviously watch it. If you're a chicken like me when it comes to scary stuff, this isn't scary really, just gory. It's not terribly intense and the ending is satisfying. I'd recommend giving it a shot, but it's not a "must see".

Leia Mais

Pick Kingdom instead

Let's say when I saw a zombie movie from South Korea I was quite interested but unfortunately it is a typical Netflix level of production. It's not bad, but it's not good either. The story is set, nothing special, I don't mind if we jump into the middle, people turning zombies, and the main characters need to survive. My problems with these kind of movies when they are not logical.

Oh Joon Woo sends out hes drone to make a phone call, but the battery dies. Seriously? He forgot to check it? And he couldn't charge it after and send it out again? What exactly he wanted to do there? No explanation.

First one zombie breaks into Oh Joon Woo`s place, and later on a zombie breaks into Kim Yoo Bin`s place also. How exactly? Those doors are opening from the flat into the hallway so to push them into the flat is basically impossible and I'm pretty sure if someone tries to pull them open the handle will break before the door gives up. Of course we didn't get any explanation.

They ( I guess the government) were bombing the city, or one part of the city we saw the bombing happening, and also a nice night traffic on the bridge… huh?

Firefighter zombie climbing up on a random rope was also a bit wtf moment. I mean they are mindless zombies like how the TV was showing or clever zombies or mixed bag?

And then they meet with the third character who saves them, gives them water which they are afraid to take because why exactly? Did they met any bad humans during the apocalypse? Or they just saw a lot of movies so they were like wait a minute this random stranger gives us water? But then they are drinking the water they are getting drugged (also i didn't see any explanation how they got drugged but the weirdo not) and then just randomly Kim Yoo Bin won't black out, and also Oh Joon Woo wakes up after 2 minutes. What kind of a shitty drug is this guy using? Also this I will feed my family with you was way too cliche. Just like the helicopter rising from the “deep” at the end but I was kinda expecting that.

So if you want to switch of your brain just watch something with zombies you might like this one, but if you are the same type like me and pisses you up if the main characters are acting stupid just for the drama then just skip this one and watch Kingdom. That series IS quality.

Leia Mais