Another contribution to the infected genre. Here Alone is on the whole a good movie - actors are playing well, settings etc. are reduced to the absolute necessary (small budget) but are sufficient for telling the story.
But in the sum Here Alone is just an okay-movie, it could have been better but imo the drama part (which is important for the movie) is just boring, foreseeable and an unnecessary addition.
MEGA-SPOILER The jealousy drama of the young girl because she wants the stepfather for her all alone and her betrayal part and the drama and all its consequences are imo so much of a cliché that it hurts badly. I just smell (or I think so) the mediocre, never-had any real problems in life writer writing this part of the plot. Really, you lose your kid and your man and than you just f*** without any (pill, condom) with the next guy coming around, so you get a good chance of getting pregnant in such a world without a doctor and stuff!? And the girl lost her mother some months ago and just want to take part of her dead mother in the life of her stepfather!? I don't know what writers today think, that ppl in unusual, dangerous surroundings just do the daily soap drama dance no matter that every bad decision could take your life. For me at least the psychological motivation of the girl was not believable - well, maybe she had already some kind of mental illness before the outbreak, this ofc I can't rule out ;)
Anyway, don't get me wrong - I am not prude or sth but imo many of the so called post-apocalyptic movies (The 100, whatever) have one main problem - the ppl still act as if they are spoiled middle-class kids (again I smell the origin of the writers) with no common sense regarding survival. In truth such ppl would be dead within a few days or a few weeks. Everyone who did some military service knows - group work and thinking is key for survival, and not ego-figthing-drama.
So to sum it up - we get an infected post-apocalyptic drama with a flavor of Ménage-à-trois and teen-in-hormone-troubles.
All in all - because of the good acting and camera, and the dark atmosphere a one time watch for the aficionado of the genre. Without this - imo ridiculous part - this could have been a better movie. A recent movie of that kind - The Girl With All The Gifts is imo a better choice, the masterpieces of the genre are way ahead of this flick.
p.s. I would have shot the infected figthing the man, after that he could have helped the girl against the infected attacking her. the dilemma was no real dilemma at all. the man's death is imo unnecessary.
But in the sum Here Alone is just an okay-movie, it could have been better but imo the drama part (which is important for the movie) is just boring, foreseeable and an unnecessary addition.
MEGA-SPOILER The jealousy drama of the young girl because she wants the stepfather for her all alone and her betrayal part and the drama and all its consequences are imo so much of a cliché that it hurts badly. I just smell (or I think so) the mediocre, never-had any real problems in life writer writing this part of the plot. Really, you lose your kid and your man and than you just f*** without any (pill, condom) with the next guy coming around, so you get a good chance of getting pregnant in such a world without a doctor and stuff!? And the girl lost her mother some months ago and just want to take part of her dead mother in the life of her stepfather!? I don't know what writers today think, that ppl in unusual, dangerous surroundings just do the daily soap drama dance no matter that every bad decision could take your life. For me at least the psychological motivation of the girl was not believable - well, maybe she had already some kind of mental illness before the outbreak, this ofc I can't rule out ;)
Anyway, don't get me wrong - I am not prude or sth but imo many of the so called post-apocalyptic movies (The 100, whatever) have one main problem - the ppl still act as if they are spoiled middle-class kids (again I smell the origin of the writers) with no common sense regarding survival. In truth such ppl would be dead within a few days or a few weeks. Everyone who did some military service knows - group work and thinking is key for survival, and not ego-figthing-drama.
So to sum it up - we get an infected post-apocalyptic drama with a flavor of Ménage-à-trois and teen-in-hormone-troubles.
All in all - because of the good acting and camera, and the dark atmosphere a one time watch for the aficionado of the genre. Without this - imo ridiculous part - this could have been a better movie. A recent movie of that kind - The Girl With All The Gifts is imo a better choice, the masterpieces of the genre are way ahead of this flick.
p.s. I would have shot the infected figthing the man, after that he could have helped the girl against the infected attacking her. the dilemma was no real dilemma at all. the man's death is imo unnecessary.