Review of Alive

Alive (2002)
4/10
DEATH OR DOOR NUMBER 1
10 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Tenshu (Hideo Sakaki) killed the 6 rapists of his girlfriend. He survives the electric chair and gets to choose between death and what is behind door number one. He finds himself in a modernistic prison as part of an experiment. He is paired with a slightly deranged serial killer necrophiliac who also has a long list of misdemeanors. The goal of the experiment is to have one of the guys kill the other for a reason that is later exposed at about the same time as that alien thing called the "Isomer."

The film is way too long. There are flashbacks to make the rape/murder more complex. The control room drama was bizarre and added needlessly to the length of the film, whose plot wasn't that overpowering considering the manner in which it was presented. Interesting concept made boring.

1 f-bomb in English subscripts. No sex or nudity.
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