Review of Alone

Alone (2002)
7/10
Nothing spectacular, but a solid thriller that makes you think.
1 July 2004
Warning: Spoilers
***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.
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