ALIVE opens with a spectacular plane crash but ( No pun intended ) goes quickly downhill from there. ALIVE is based on actual events but is never as good as it should have been , though it`s never as bad as it could have been either.
The problem I had with the film was that I found it very difficult to relate to the survivors , not because they eat the flesh of the dead - Thankfully this aspect of the film is treated with dignity - but because their characters are so sketchily written. The other problem is that the production team seem to have forgot that it`s set thousands of feet up the Andes! The night after the crash the survivors nearly freeze to death but by the end of the film some of them are sitting around without their jackets on ! Just how warm does it get up there ?
All in all ALIVE is adequate but doesn`t make us share the feelings of the survivors triumph. For that to happen we must feel we`re there with the survivors freezing and starving. I didn`t , I felt more like an observer
The problem I had with the film was that I found it very difficult to relate to the survivors , not because they eat the flesh of the dead - Thankfully this aspect of the film is treated with dignity - but because their characters are so sketchily written. The other problem is that the production team seem to have forgot that it`s set thousands of feet up the Andes! The night after the crash the survivors nearly freeze to death but by the end of the film some of them are sitting around without their jackets on ! Just how warm does it get up there ?
All in all ALIVE is adequate but doesn`t make us share the feelings of the survivors triumph. For that to happen we must feel we`re there with the survivors freezing and starving. I didn`t , I felt more like an observer