Alone (2002)

There is a nice idea at the back of this film, and the director has assembled a talented cast.Unfortunately the novelty of the approach wears thin and the idea - that we see only through the eyes of the killer- becomes incredibly iritating by the end of the film.Aditonally the "twist" is predictable after about 5 minutes.This is a shame as the actors are very talented and could undoubtedly have made a decent fist of the role given half a chance.What a wasted opportunity!Technical details are excellent and the editing and sound design are superb.Unfortunately the same cannot be said of the movie.

'Creepy, Psychological Thrills' 'Cranks up the Tension' 'Explosive'These comments are printed proudly on the sleeve of the DVD. Believe them at your peril. You could certainly spend the 89Mins I spent watching this doing something more worthwhile. It doesn't even manage to be creepy by accident.I Implore you, avoid this filmIf you like a good psychological thriller/serial killer movie try SEVEN, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, BONE COLLECTOR, FALLEN. Anything but this2/10

***This review WILL contain spoilers***Well, I for one liked this movie. British movies are just not cut out for people who drool over Hollywood crap like Troy and Harry Potter. They often expect the viewer to be able to think and to fill in the blanks, which I appreciate. Especially the ending is quite good.Brief summary: Mental patient desperately seeks female companionship, but it usually goes wrong and he ends up killing them instead.A duo of cops, one old and male, one young and female, try to find out what's going on and finally there's a showdown.What I found interesting about this movie is that we never actually see the killer and more mysterious, even, we never even find out the gender until the very last second of the movie. I personally thought the killer was a guy, but in the last scene he suddenly has boobs? Is it female? Male transsexual? In any case, it's a very confused and abused individual.Sure there's ripoffs from here to Tokio and back, most notably from Seven and Silence of the Lambs, but name me one movie that's been made in the past 20 years that isn't at least a partial ripoff of a book, other movie, TV show or what have you and I'll re-vote this movie lower. :-)Worth watching, nothing spectacular, but solid thriller, is my opinion. 7 out of 10.

I advise anyone and everyone NEVER to watch this film. To be frank with all of you this film was the worst film i have ever had to watch, yes its even worse than Braindead!It was possibly the most boring story line ever, and the editing and shots in this film were so poor, they resembled the work of a year 11 Media Student who thinks it cool to use shaky repetitive shots to make a film good. The whole film is shot using a blue filter, yes meaning that everything was blue, this was ineffective and annoying. I believe that a monkey could do a better job than the director of this film. The acting (if you could call it acting) was shameful and i mean so shameful that i am embarrassed for the actors in this film. The monotone voices and badly written script could send anyone who suffers from insomnia straight to sleep.The story couldn't have made less of an impact on me if it tried, come to think of if i have no idea what this film was about i spend most of the time watching this film crying at how bad it was. But to make it worse it wasn't even so bad it was laughable, which some films are take Crossroads for instance.You may be asking, Why natalie didn't you just stop watching the film? Well i will tell you why! Because i paid £3 yes 3 whole pounds to rent this film out. And i felt so ripped off, so please don't buy this film! You will only feel that you have wasted your money, and you will be helping these dumb ass monkeys make money!I hope you will bear this in mind. Thankyou for your time but really you should be thanking me because i have saved you the money and the time!