Alphaville Review - Week 2

This week, my task for this blog is to create a review of Alphaville... So here goes.

Alphaville, is what at the time probably would have been an excellent movie for it’s time, but now seems somewhat dated, and considerably illogical. The movie stinks of low budget filming, and poor script writing. The movie soundtrack, also seems quite random, and in my opinion, seemed to push the wrong mood for scenes. Scary orchestral tracks often play at seemingly random times, when really really non-scary things are happening, for example, the operating of a light switch, or a photo being taken. Considering when it was made however, this movie was probably trend setting for many films that were to be made afterwards, and it is my feeling that movies such as 2001 a space odyssey, used this film for ideas. Also according to another reviewer, this movie was very strange, and unconventional too. (http://www.cinematicreflections.com/Alphaville.html)