Alone

Alone

The film “Alone” by John Hyams starts off well. The initial 30 minutes of the movie is filled with a lot of hope. Jessica (played by Jules Willcox) moves out of Portland, Oregon at an unknown destination packed in her U-Haul trailer. These parts are somewhere deep into the wilderness but we never get to know where exactly she was going as that did not happen.

It so turns out that there is this serial killer who has been on the loose for some time now and whom they describe as a man wearing glasses and having a push broom for moustache which makes him look like an older version of Ned Flanders from The Simpsons after he had done many sins requiring repentance.

Even though it seems like filmmakers may have gone with this everyman look so victims wouldn’t suspect anything about his being evil, I’m sorry but I cannot buy that because Man (as he is known in credits) played by Marc Menchaca never acted anything creepy throughout the entire movie no matter what he did or said to any character especially Jessica whom he meets face to face for first time when she tries passing him on road few miles back where incidentally Jeep Grand Cherokee which almost killed her as she tried overtaking him was driven by none other than himself.

If you ask me personally whether Jeep paid handsomely enough for such product placement then my answer would be yes indeed just like Uhaul should also have paid handsomely enough too given its involvement in getting flatness fixed before man showed up beat senselessness drug kidnap her right away leaving behind only empty basement room fitted with bars across windows letting beautiful beam sunlight stream through them conveniently illuminating otherwise dark space where jessica wakes up after being knocked unconsciousness during struggle.

At least until now everything seems fine; alone could pass itself off as thriller without this addition: Another character named Robert (played by Anthony Heald). But no, he has to appear and ruin everything. If you have ever watched any movie in this genre then am sure that by time jessica injured her foot while running away from man we all expected alone would turn into kind of thing where two people face each other out there somewhere far off wilderness but eventually it doesn’t happen so now what purpose does robert serve apart from being proof that good guy with gun never stops anything

The words man is given to say are terrible. When the movie catches him monologuing in his attempts to flush Jessica out of the dark, his psychological torture sounds like it was written by a high schooler. It’s a testament to Wilcox’s talent at playing crazy that she almost saves the scene. But when Man says, in this really bored voice, “I’m gonna get you, you delicious f–king b—h!” my suspension of disbelief snapped clean in half. And that’s before we get to the helicopter from nowhere and the climactic phone call which, for some reason, isn’t to the police.

There’s not much of a reason to care if our hero survives “Alone,” but I do appreciate that Jessica isn’t exactly a damsel in distress. She makes some dumb choices, sure but she’s also more resourceful and aware than most victims. There’s a part where she gets the upper hand with a tire iron for a moment and then crawls away, taking the tire iron with her; I laughed because I did not think she was going to do that.

That showed some real survival instinct on her part. There’s also an interesting bit where a potential savior, confronted with having to believe either Jessica or Man about what went down, simply decides that Man must be telling the truth because Jessica is hysterical. I could be projecting onto this movie like whoa but I got kind of a kick out of it anyway it was at least something different than usual for these things so let me have this one as the movie wheezes across its finish line here.

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