Alpha

PG-13

8/17/20181h 37m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Leaders are born from survival ~

Overview:

In the prehistoric past, Keda, a young and inexperienced hunter, struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe when bison hunting goes awry. On his way back he will find an unexpected ally.

Director:

Albert Hughes

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$51,000,000.00

Revenue:

$99,630,675.00

Key words:

wolf
ice age
human animal relationship
wilderness
survival
prehistory
snow
saber-toothed tiger
boy and dog
injury
pets
bison
upper palaeolithic
boar
appreciative
empathetic

Cast

Kodi Smit-McPhee

~ as ~

Keda

Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson

~ as ~

Tau

Marcin Kowalczyk

~ as ~

Sigma

Jens Hultén

~ as ~

Natassia Malthe

~ as ~

Rho

Spencer Bogaert

~ as ~

Kappa

Mercedes de la Zerda

~ as ~

Leonor Varela

~ as ~

Shaman Woman

Priya Rajaratnam

~ as ~

Huntress (uncredited)

Nashon Douglas

~ as ~

Lion Tribe #3 (uncredited)

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Reviews (2)

F
Feofan
Written 7 year(s) ago
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Good shots, awful plot
GenerationofSwine
Written 2 year(s) ago
10
It deserved a better showing at the box office, and I really want to give credit to Hughes on putting all of this together with an eye for some of the early traditions of early man. He clearly did enough homework to keep it true to the period while still making the film entertaining.

I do however think the subtitles didn't help the box office showing at all, but added to the realism of the film over all.

Kodi Smit-McPhee though, he was able to carry the film while looking strikingly like Juliette Lewis, and, in some cases, moving like her. It was a bit of a distraction, especially when the men and women really needed to look more rawhide...a lot more rawhide.

Despite that, it was a compelling film, despite some of the CGI issues. It drew you in and actually felt like a trip in the Wayback Machine much more than 10,000 BC could have even dreamed of doing.

And, it was really that transportation back to early man that sells the film, and Hughes pulled it off far better than anyone could have hoped for the man that gave us "Dead Presidents" he clearly has a lot of talent in him to be able to transport the viewer back like that.