Review of Alive

Alive (I) (2018)
3/10
When will this tired trope die?
29 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This film is like a cheap version of Hostel but with really thick central characters.

It wouldn't have been half bad had the main protagonists have had an ounce of common sense. It's one of those films where the movies villain does bad things to the movies protagonists and they in turn get several chances to kill said villain, completely have him at thier mercy and....They...(yawns) run away and leave him to get up and come after them.

Seriously, they're so dumb it leaves you smacking your forehead every few minutes. There are weapons, knives and blades, hammers, axes and yet they just run past them and leave them lying around. They just do the stupidest things that are completely unbelievable and it ruins any chance the film has of being enjoyable.

There's a bit of blood and gore here and there and it's well enough made for what is obviously a low budget production and there is a pretty cool twist at the end if you manage to get that far into it.

But this tired trope of having horror movie characters presented with the movies villain lying motionless on the floor, with plenty of weapons around, only to run away and let him get back up again, needs to die. Just finish him off already, is it too much to ask?
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