Alienate (2016)

Touches You

Nice effects though.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I've used a system of checking IMDb when about to watch a movie I've never heard of, and if the rating is less than 6, passing on it. I didn't check IMDb with this one, and just took a punt that I can recognize a bad movie when I see it within 5 minutes. I watched this to the end. It's no classic, but it's well done with the bounds of the budget, and experience of its cast and crew. In hindsight, I'm sure the director and writer would eschew the jumping around in the narrative chronology and maybe lighten up on the relationship angle.I'm just imagining all the gems I may have missed because they were rated 5.9 or below! Reviewers, please show a little respect for the efforts of the people who invested themselves in this. Ratings a movie 1 or 2 is not a realistic assessment.

Normally I would provide a spoiler alert, but this movie was spoiled long before I saw it. Fortunately, there's a check box for this, so I guess I'm safe.This movie was the biggest waste of time I have recently encountered. Firstly, the movie goes through numerous flashbacks without any indication whatsoever that they are happening. In this movie, David and Amy have a horrible marriage yet David is still trying to get back to her. He appears to be oblivious to the alien invasion and wonders why he sees helicopters crashing next to him and people lying dead everywhere. You can see in the beginning that he has an injured leg which he ties a piece of cloth around before driving. We don't know yet how he was injured. He comes across a lot of bodies in the street and stops. He doesn't really seem all that surprised still. A live man comes up and tells him there are others who need help and asks him to follow. This is where he meets Samantha, who also was in a failed marriage. They finally leave together without any others who are being attacked by aliens with laser weapons dressed like Coneheads from a Saturday Night Live skit. While they are driving and talking, you will suddenly notice that Samantha isn't in the car and it is only David. Very bad flashback technique.Finally realizing it is a flashback, you see David nearly hit a man in the street at night. He stops and exits the car and asks the man if he's okay. The guy is just standing there like a zombie, not saying a word with a dazed look. So what does David do? Ask the strange stranger if he wants a ride, of course. Later, he encounters a weird woman in the middle of the road and she walks up and throws a large bucket of water all over his windshield. What does he do? Of course, he gets out and asks her if she is okay. Then an old geezer with a shotgun fires at him, so what does David do? Jump into his car and haul ass? No, he starts walking toward the dude's house like a moron and all the while this guy is yelling at him and telling him to get off his property. But he doesn't stop. The old man hears something and starts shooting, then tells David to get in or out (meaning his house). So naturally, David enters the old Shotgun- toting dude's house who just threatened his life. Aliens attack the house and the old guy suddenly remembers he forgot to lock the back door. How convenient. When they get in, he starts shooting and accidentally hits David in the leg. Oh! It makes sense now how he got injured. So you'd think. David then goes down into the basement with a sledge hammer and hides while the old guy shoots it out with aliens. Then one walks into the basement and David kills him with the sledge hammer. Now you'd think, after coming face-to-face with a pointed-headed alien that he would have a clue what is going on, but in the scenes later, he still doesn't seem to.Finally David and Samantha are getting along pretty well and you can just see a new relationship beginning to blossom. David's wife was cheating on him anyway and he had admitted to Samantha that he had cheated on her in the past. So you just know these two survivors are gonna' hook up. Um... nope. A military helicopter lands to pick them up and Samantha begs David to get in but he stays. He insists he must find Amy. So Samantha flies off in the chopper, never to be seen again while David pushes on into town.People in town are running and getting toasted by aliens and alien drones. David finally sees Amy running in a crowd of people and she sees him and they start the classic long run towards one another in slow motion. Yes, we all know this will end well. When they are ten feet from each other, she is hit in the back with a laser and dies. David sits down by her and holds her while an alien walks up to him and we all know he is killed.Movie ends, as does 90 minutes of my life I can never get back. Save yourself the torture. Don't consider watching this trash.

Don't Believe anyone that gives this more than one star, they must be family, horrible garbage. bad story line, bad acting, unbelievable, my husband left the room and i fast forwarded till the end to find something worth seeing and there was nothing. 699 and 1 hour wasted. I want a refund for both ugh

*** This review may contain spoilers ***All the other reviews have touched upon the fact that the movie jumps about from past and present. I actually liked this element of it, the problem for me was that the story, was just too dull and boring.I agree with another reviewer that complains about the other people that it introduces have no real significance.I very rarely start watching a film without finishing it, and I managed to complete this one, but can't really recommend it. It just lacks substance and just isn't very good. You can look for hidden meanings and existential questions in movies and others are just pointless; this is the latter.The acting isn't as bad as made out by others, but the lack of euphoria demonstrated by the actual events is a little obvious.Watch it or don't watch it, the results will be pretty much the same.