(Director/co-screenwriter: Il Cho, billed as Cho II. Co-screenwriter: Matt Naylor.)
Storyline
A mysterious infection plunges
a city into chaos while a solitary young man holes up in his apartment.
Review
This Netflix Original film follows Oh Joon-woo, a teenager alone in a third-story high-rise apartment while cannibalistic, crazed humans who were once his neighbors run wild attacking, killing and eating people. Mostly smart─especially considering his adolescent mindset─he uses social media (what little is left) to let the outside world that not everyone in this violent, diseased situation.
#ALIVE is a solid work, with a few intense attacked-by-the-infected scenes. My only nit about the film is how Joon-woo can assess certain situations and realities, but other should-be-obvious decisions seem to elude him. But that’s more a personal quirk on my part, probably, a generational-divide thing. Well-acted, -written and -directed, this easily-a-set-up-for-sequels flick is better than a lot of crazed humans/zombie flicks I’ve seen in the last few years.
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