Looks like I'm one of the few who likes this film, so I had to drop a note. I admit it's almost too understated. But I like that approach, not having everything spelled out. The story is deep between the lines, at least until the confrontation. There's almost too much exposition for me in that moment, since they had already established such a sideways manner of presentation. Like "Night Eats The World" (which I also liked) I think the post-apocalyptic setting creates viewer expectations, and the film never has any intention of going down those avenues. I enjoyed having my expectations thwarted,in this case. About 20 minutes in I realized it wasn't going to be the film I had assumed, and just went along with it. I get why many people didn't like it, but it doesn't deserve that awful rating. It's not an action flick, it's not suspense or thriller. It a post-apocalyptic love story. And the cinematography is spectacular.
175 Reviews
A slow, eerie, romantic nightmare.
Fedoics17 September 2018
I Think We're Alone Now is not the typical post-apocalyptic film most audiences are used to seeing.
After looking at the gorgeous poster and watching half the trailer to this movie, my interest grew. The further I looked into the project and the more I learned about the cast and crew involved, I was hooked.
The film is directed by Reed Morano and stars Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning. The story follows a seemingly lone survivor of a mysterious apocalypse that stumbles upon a young girl. Throughout the film the two talk and bond, living in this quiet world Morano builds for his characters.
Dinklage's acting was quiet and subtle, very rarely talking and communicating in glances. Fanning's character is loud and full of energy. The two have great chemistry. The film's romance is similar to Lost in Translation but isn't executed as well. Throughout the film it seems they are close, but never really romantic, just surviving. If it was built upon more, execution would be better.
The cinematography in the film is spectacular. Morano's past in cinematography shines in this project. The atmosphere is built upon with the film relying on natural lighting. This has an amazing effect on the environment, giving it life and making it seem real.
There are downsides to this movie. About two thirds of the way into the movie, it seems to take a total shift in the mood and story. The ending seemed like it didn't belong, ripped out of a mid-two thousands teen dystopian book. While the ending didn't ruin the film, it still left me unsatisfied.
While the runtime of this film is just over an hour and thirty minutes, it takes its time. If you're going into this expecting a fast pace movie with quick dialogue and fast results, this movie isn't for you. If you're a fan of character studies and long, interrupted takes, you'll more than likely enjoy this movie.
Overall, I Think We're Alone Now is an experience that I haven't had in a theater in a while. It's different than most of the films in theaters this year which is refreshing. It teaches people the importance of a strong and satisfying ending and how not to do that, but also how to set up an effective and interesting universe Check it out.
After looking at the gorgeous poster and watching half the trailer to this movie, my interest grew. The further I looked into the project and the more I learned about the cast and crew involved, I was hooked.
The film is directed by Reed Morano and stars Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning. The story follows a seemingly lone survivor of a mysterious apocalypse that stumbles upon a young girl. Throughout the film the two talk and bond, living in this quiet world Morano builds for his characters.
Dinklage's acting was quiet and subtle, very rarely talking and communicating in glances. Fanning's character is loud and full of energy. The two have great chemistry. The film's romance is similar to Lost in Translation but isn't executed as well. Throughout the film it seems they are close, but never really romantic, just surviving. If it was built upon more, execution would be better.
The cinematography in the film is spectacular. Morano's past in cinematography shines in this project. The atmosphere is built upon with the film relying on natural lighting. This has an amazing effect on the environment, giving it life and making it seem real.
There are downsides to this movie. About two thirds of the way into the movie, it seems to take a total shift in the mood and story. The ending seemed like it didn't belong, ripped out of a mid-two thousands teen dystopian book. While the ending didn't ruin the film, it still left me unsatisfied.
While the runtime of this film is just over an hour and thirty minutes, it takes its time. If you're going into this expecting a fast pace movie with quick dialogue and fast results, this movie isn't for you. If you're a fan of character studies and long, interrupted takes, you'll more than likely enjoy this movie.
Overall, I Think We're Alone Now is an experience that I haven't had in a theater in a while. It's different than most of the films in theaters this year which is refreshing. It teaches people the importance of a strong and satisfying ending and how not to do that, but also how to set up an effective and interesting universe Check it out.
Slow Movie Carried By Strong Acting Performances
Sawyer-481516234224 September 2018
Peter Dinklage is a national treasure. I became a fan of his through his performance in Game of Thrones and I've really come to enjoy his acting. He is the reason that I Think We're Alone Now is decent and worth a watch. I am a fan of post-apocalyptic stories in general so that contributed to my enjoyment.
However, this movie does have some flaws. The plot is slow moving, has weird abrupt tonal changes, unanswered question/plot holes and the final act is just weird. They shoehorn in a side plot that becomes a huge part of the ending and it just felt off to me. Plus I can't articulate just why, but I think the title of this movie is stupid. I guess it just doesn't fit in with the actual story, plus it makes everyone think of that song of the same name.
Recommended to fans of post-apocalyptic movies who enjoy strong acting. Not recommended to watchers looking for action or adventure movies.
However, this movie does have some flaws. The plot is slow moving, has weird abrupt tonal changes, unanswered question/plot holes and the final act is just weird. They shoehorn in a side plot that becomes a huge part of the ending and it just felt off to me. Plus I can't articulate just why, but I think the title of this movie is stupid. I guess it just doesn't fit in with the actual story, plus it makes everyone think of that song of the same name.
Recommended to fans of post-apocalyptic movies who enjoy strong acting. Not recommended to watchers looking for action or adventure movies.
Good idea spoiled by inaudible dialogue.
g-hbe23 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This sounded intriguing when we read the summary on Prime so we decided to give it a go. It opens with Dinklage going around a deserted town, pinching batteries and fuel and anything that he can use to ease his miserable existence in a post-apocalypse America. How he survived when everyone else perished is a miracle, but convinced he is alone he does his best to keep the town clean and ordered. So far so good, but when company turns up in the shape of Elle Fanning, Dinklage has to speak. I don't know whether the problem was Dinklage's mumbling delivery or poor sound recording (maybe both), but we ended up with the TV volume almost full up in an (unsuccessful) attempt to hear his words. Then when the music and effects came along we were deafened! The twist near the end of the film introduces two new characters played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Paul Giamatti, and only Giamatti speaks with any clarity. This film would have been ten times better (and ten times less annoying) if more attention had been paid to the sound recording and the actors told to speak properly.
Just taxied around the runway and then crashed into a hanger.
S_Soma23 September 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW just isn't much of a movie. What's remarkable about it is how incredibly far the mere presence of Peter Dinklage in it goes to give one the impression that one is seeing a good movie. As good as Dinklage is, when the story finally wakes up and realizes that it isn't going anywhere and takes a sudden, jarring turn out into the weeds in a desperate attempt to save itself, as a viewer you suddenly come to your senses and catch on to the fact that the movie is just stumbling around in the dark trying to find something to say.
I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW is a post-apocalyptic movie that tries to take the road less traveled by in telling it's story, which in and of itself isn't a bad thing at all. Most post-apocalyptic movies are about zombies or aliens and all sorts of heroic struggles and explosions etc. I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW just starts out with everybody already dead and goes from there. By observation there was probably some sort of pandemic, but I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW is not interested in the hows or whys but rather how Del, the apparently lone survivor and our lead character played by Dinklage, chooses to spend his majority of one. This premise was completely legitimate and COULD have resulted in a sensational movie but it just didn't happen. Somebody had a great idea and it produced a handful of great tableaus and Dinklage brought them to life, but apparently no one could follow the great idea through to a complete story.
When the movie begins, we start watching Del's version of overseeing the end of human history. Del was living in a small town of about sixteen hundred people and worked, apparently, in the local library when life as we know it came to an abrupt end. Del likes things orderly and organized (and what librarian doesn't) and has chosen to spend his remaining years cleaning up after the end of humanity... At least as it has ended in this particular small town.
There are corpses to collect and bury, some basic tidying to do when the dead didn't leave their circumstances dusted and shipshape when they "joined the choir invisible", smelly refrigerators to clean out, leaves to blow, photographs of a few hundred families to collect and organize into files, and so on. Just because it was an apocalypse doesn't mean it can't be clean, organized and odor free now does it?
Ultimately, Del is all about having the postapocalypse arranged in the manner he prefers it because, as we come to understand, so much of the pre-apocalypse WAS NOT the way he liked it.
Unfortunately, the sprucing up of the end of humankind is going along swimmingly, when, one evening, not far away from where Del has chosen to live, some fireworks suddenly appear in the evening sky. Evidently someone else is also still alive and THEIR view of the end of the human world involves fireworks.
The next morning Del goes looking for the source of the fireworks celebration and finds a young woman either passed out or knocked out in her car on the side of a residential street. While still knocked out, he takes her to a bedroom in one of the vacant homes, patches her up, and leaves her unconscious and locked up on a bed. He has no weird intentions mind you, he just wants to control her options when she wakes up and hopefully help organize her swift departure so he can return to his pleasant, well structured and tidy routine.
Which, of course, doesn't work at all. While Del's personality seems to be that of a love child between a librarian and an accountant, the young woman, Grace, seems to be the antithesis of everything Del. Grace is the embodiment of chaos, and, to Grace, the whole purpose of a postapocalypse is to be able to do anything you want without a lot of interference.
As you might guess, a good chunk of the movie, which is definitely not a comedy no matter how much I may be making light of it, is about the conflict between these two diametrically opposed personalities.
And then one morning, with absolutely no warning other than a rather unusual scar on the back of Grace's neck to tip us that there may be some other plot element at play, Del wakes up to find Grace, looking terrified, having breakfast with two strangers who purport to be Grace's "parents" who have come to retrieve her and return her to, of all places, suburban Palm Springs, California.
Suffice to say that the storyline takes a violent turn right off the rails from this point to the end. I will leave that part of the picture is an adventure of exploration for the reader.
It's all very well to say that we should view people from the perspective of who they are and their actions while overlooking their physical characteristics and limitations. It's entirely another thing to see that actually happen in the real world and especially in a place as artificial and hypocritical as Hollywood. It's amazing to me, given Hollywood's obsession for tall and handsome leading men, that it even gives Dinklage the time of day for obvious reasons. While I haven't got a SJW bone in my body, I'm tickled to death that Dinklage gets the roles he does because I find him one of the best actors I've ever seen. He is one of a handful of actors whose presence in a move me causes me to watch it for that reason alone. His screen presence is nothing short of spectacular. I typically find myself completely forgetting his dwarfism until some scene requires some physical activity from him that highlights it.
It is only Dinklage's presence in I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW that makes it worth watching at all. If you think I'm wrong about this, go ahead and watch the movie and then just imagine, oh, say, Grant Gustin as Del instead of Peter Dinklage. Would you have been able to stay awake through the whole thing? I doubt it.
I do encourage you to watch I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW just to see Peter Dinklage's reliably stellar performance, but be sure and brace yourself for a redonkulous ending from left field. At least it's a happy ending for what that's worth.
I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW is a post-apocalyptic movie that tries to take the road less traveled by in telling it's story, which in and of itself isn't a bad thing at all. Most post-apocalyptic movies are about zombies or aliens and all sorts of heroic struggles and explosions etc. I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW just starts out with everybody already dead and goes from there. By observation there was probably some sort of pandemic, but I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW is not interested in the hows or whys but rather how Del, the apparently lone survivor and our lead character played by Dinklage, chooses to spend his majority of one. This premise was completely legitimate and COULD have resulted in a sensational movie but it just didn't happen. Somebody had a great idea and it produced a handful of great tableaus and Dinklage brought them to life, but apparently no one could follow the great idea through to a complete story.
When the movie begins, we start watching Del's version of overseeing the end of human history. Del was living in a small town of about sixteen hundred people and worked, apparently, in the local library when life as we know it came to an abrupt end. Del likes things orderly and organized (and what librarian doesn't) and has chosen to spend his remaining years cleaning up after the end of humanity... At least as it has ended in this particular small town.
There are corpses to collect and bury, some basic tidying to do when the dead didn't leave their circumstances dusted and shipshape when they "joined the choir invisible", smelly refrigerators to clean out, leaves to blow, photographs of a few hundred families to collect and organize into files, and so on. Just because it was an apocalypse doesn't mean it can't be clean, organized and odor free now does it?
Ultimately, Del is all about having the postapocalypse arranged in the manner he prefers it because, as we come to understand, so much of the pre-apocalypse WAS NOT the way he liked it.
Unfortunately, the sprucing up of the end of humankind is going along swimmingly, when, one evening, not far away from where Del has chosen to live, some fireworks suddenly appear in the evening sky. Evidently someone else is also still alive and THEIR view of the end of the human world involves fireworks.
The next morning Del goes looking for the source of the fireworks celebration and finds a young woman either passed out or knocked out in her car on the side of a residential street. While still knocked out, he takes her to a bedroom in one of the vacant homes, patches her up, and leaves her unconscious and locked up on a bed. He has no weird intentions mind you, he just wants to control her options when she wakes up and hopefully help organize her swift departure so he can return to his pleasant, well structured and tidy routine.
Which, of course, doesn't work at all. While Del's personality seems to be that of a love child between a librarian and an accountant, the young woman, Grace, seems to be the antithesis of everything Del. Grace is the embodiment of chaos, and, to Grace, the whole purpose of a postapocalypse is to be able to do anything you want without a lot of interference.
As you might guess, a good chunk of the movie, which is definitely not a comedy no matter how much I may be making light of it, is about the conflict between these two diametrically opposed personalities.
And then one morning, with absolutely no warning other than a rather unusual scar on the back of Grace's neck to tip us that there may be some other plot element at play, Del wakes up to find Grace, looking terrified, having breakfast with two strangers who purport to be Grace's "parents" who have come to retrieve her and return her to, of all places, suburban Palm Springs, California.
Suffice to say that the storyline takes a violent turn right off the rails from this point to the end. I will leave that part of the picture is an adventure of exploration for the reader.
It's all very well to say that we should view people from the perspective of who they are and their actions while overlooking their physical characteristics and limitations. It's entirely another thing to see that actually happen in the real world and especially in a place as artificial and hypocritical as Hollywood. It's amazing to me, given Hollywood's obsession for tall and handsome leading men, that it even gives Dinklage the time of day for obvious reasons. While I haven't got a SJW bone in my body, I'm tickled to death that Dinklage gets the roles he does because I find him one of the best actors I've ever seen. He is one of a handful of actors whose presence in a move me causes me to watch it for that reason alone. His screen presence is nothing short of spectacular. I typically find myself completely forgetting his dwarfism until some scene requires some physical activity from him that highlights it.
It is only Dinklage's presence in I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW that makes it worth watching at all. If you think I'm wrong about this, go ahead and watch the movie and then just imagine, oh, say, Grant Gustin as Del instead of Peter Dinklage. Would you have been able to stay awake through the whole thing? I doubt it.
I do encourage you to watch I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW just to see Peter Dinklage's reliably stellar performance, but be sure and brace yourself for a redonkulous ending from left field. At least it's a happy ending for what that's worth.
A study in loneliness
harry_tk_yung2 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This is an unusual movie that invites a lot of questions. The summary line represents how I see it. A movie about a sole survivor after an apocalypse is not that unique. Easily coming to mind is Will Smith's "I am a legend" (technically, there are other survivors in that movie but they have all turned into zombies). In "I think we're alone now", Del (Peter Dinklage) appears initially to be the sole survivor. It would appear that there was some kind of plague that affected perhaps "99.99%" of the population.
The movie starts with 20 minutes without any dialogue, but a lot of action, not fights or such things, but in a very literal sense. Del is busy going from door to door with his "cleanup" operation, again in a literal sense. He wraps up dead bodies, at various stages of decay (very little graphic details, thank heavens), and buries them in common graves he dug. On a philosophic plane, this operation is his one-man campaign against "entropy". However, his motives are not entirely altruistic. He salvages anything useful, amongst which batteries are top-of-the-list. On a town plan spread open on his kitchen table, he marks off each house with a cross after he has attended to it.
When he is not engaging in this noble undertaking, Del fishes, in a breathtakingly beautiful lake. As canned food (those not past the expiry date) likely serves as his main source of nourishment, these freshly-caught fish provide his gourmet dinner which he takes in a spacious dining room with floor-to-ceiling glass walls overlooking the idyllic lake. A glass of wine too. Incidentally, he eats the fish with chopsticks. Not such a bad life, it would seem.
Lonely? An illuminating clue can be found in a later dialogue: "I was lonely when this town had a population of 1600". Then you remember that this is a dwarf talking, which will in turn conjure up the image of another dwarf (portrayed by the same exquisite actor), in "Three Billboards out Ebbing Missouri", and you get the picture. Del is actually enjoying this post-apocalypse life!
His solitude is disturbed by discovery of a young woman with a mild concussion, in a car she apparently drove onto an obstacle at curbside. "Why are you still alive?", his first question to her, comes across almost like an accusation. Like it or not, there is at least one more survivor now, Grace (Elle Fanning). He tries to send her away while she, finding another human being alive, quite understandably wants to stay. After some negotiation, he finally allows her to stay to help in the cleanup operation, on a trial basis. A smile blossoms on the young woman's lovely face.
The interaction between the two of them, essentially the middle "act" of the movie, is the meat. Grace's youthful zest soon surfaces and her curiosity is insatiable. Unfazed by Del's taciturn responses, she carries on merrily "That's what people do, they ask questions", such as whether he is lonely, drawing out the abovementioned answer.
Gradually getting used to each other, they start some bantering. Rummaging through the shelves of canned food in the supermarket, talking about eating in general, Grace asks "what do you miss most"? "Quiet" (used as a noun, in reply). The interaction between Del and Grace in this mid-section of the movie is so intriguingly delightful that I wouldn't want to spoil anything with the details. One significant remark, however, should be mentioned. After they have exchanged a little bit of their respective background, Grace says, with uncharacteristic gravity, "You had no one. I had everyone." At what can be considered the conclusion of this middle "act", they are sitting in the car after dark. She starts by saying that there is something about where she comes from that she wants to tell him. Instead, however, she bends over and kisses him.
The reason I am not going to get into any details about the third and final "act" is not to avoid spoilers, but just that the plot twist is quite lame and almost meaningless. One critic goes to the extent to say that it looks like this last third comes from an entirely different movie, snapped on randomly. Another likens it to mixing prune juice with white wine! What I find most disappointing, however, is the waste of two top acting talents, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Paul Giamatti. But, looking on the bright side, they do bring something to the movie that lesser actors are not able to. Suffices to say that at the end of the "crisis", Del and Grace live happily ever after, an apt closure to the title "I think we're alone now".
While in general a very "quiet" movie, it comes with welcomed spasms of funky music, which is also used for the upbeat conclusion. The photography, with a penchant for play of lights, should fetch at least some award nominations.
The movie starts with 20 minutes without any dialogue, but a lot of action, not fights or such things, but in a very literal sense. Del is busy going from door to door with his "cleanup" operation, again in a literal sense. He wraps up dead bodies, at various stages of decay (very little graphic details, thank heavens), and buries them in common graves he dug. On a philosophic plane, this operation is his one-man campaign against "entropy". However, his motives are not entirely altruistic. He salvages anything useful, amongst which batteries are top-of-the-list. On a town plan spread open on his kitchen table, he marks off each house with a cross after he has attended to it.
When he is not engaging in this noble undertaking, Del fishes, in a breathtakingly beautiful lake. As canned food (those not past the expiry date) likely serves as his main source of nourishment, these freshly-caught fish provide his gourmet dinner which he takes in a spacious dining room with floor-to-ceiling glass walls overlooking the idyllic lake. A glass of wine too. Incidentally, he eats the fish with chopsticks. Not such a bad life, it would seem.
Lonely? An illuminating clue can be found in a later dialogue: "I was lonely when this town had a population of 1600". Then you remember that this is a dwarf talking, which will in turn conjure up the image of another dwarf (portrayed by the same exquisite actor), in "Three Billboards out Ebbing Missouri", and you get the picture. Del is actually enjoying this post-apocalypse life!
His solitude is disturbed by discovery of a young woman with a mild concussion, in a car she apparently drove onto an obstacle at curbside. "Why are you still alive?", his first question to her, comes across almost like an accusation. Like it or not, there is at least one more survivor now, Grace (Elle Fanning). He tries to send her away while she, finding another human being alive, quite understandably wants to stay. After some negotiation, he finally allows her to stay to help in the cleanup operation, on a trial basis. A smile blossoms on the young woman's lovely face.
The interaction between the two of them, essentially the middle "act" of the movie, is the meat. Grace's youthful zest soon surfaces and her curiosity is insatiable. Unfazed by Del's taciturn responses, she carries on merrily "That's what people do, they ask questions", such as whether he is lonely, drawing out the abovementioned answer.
Gradually getting used to each other, they start some bantering. Rummaging through the shelves of canned food in the supermarket, talking about eating in general, Grace asks "what do you miss most"? "Quiet" (used as a noun, in reply). The interaction between Del and Grace in this mid-section of the movie is so intriguingly delightful that I wouldn't want to spoil anything with the details. One significant remark, however, should be mentioned. After they have exchanged a little bit of their respective background, Grace says, with uncharacteristic gravity, "You had no one. I had everyone." At what can be considered the conclusion of this middle "act", they are sitting in the car after dark. She starts by saying that there is something about where she comes from that she wants to tell him. Instead, however, she bends over and kisses him.
The reason I am not going to get into any details about the third and final "act" is not to avoid spoilers, but just that the plot twist is quite lame and almost meaningless. One critic goes to the extent to say that it looks like this last third comes from an entirely different movie, snapped on randomly. Another likens it to mixing prune juice with white wine! What I find most disappointing, however, is the waste of two top acting talents, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Paul Giamatti. But, looking on the bright side, they do bring something to the movie that lesser actors are not able to. Suffices to say that at the end of the "crisis", Del and Grace live happily ever after, an apt closure to the title "I think we're alone now".
While in general a very "quiet" movie, it comes with welcomed spasms of funky music, which is also used for the upbeat conclusion. The photography, with a penchant for play of lights, should fetch at least some award nominations.
Got Ups and Downs
Tweetienator27 September 2018
The trouble with that movie is easy explained - top cast and top acting (Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning) vs. a slow story with a badly executed "twist".
All in all watchable but with that scenario and those fine actors I Think We're Alone Now had the potential to be a new classic on the post-apocalyptic genre front, but the plot is very slow and especially the final act feels forced and rushed and not well thought thru (and its kinda cliche).
Anyway, all in all a rather ambivalent experience but still watchable - for fans of the genre and/or the actors.
All in all watchable but with that scenario and those fine actors I Think We're Alone Now had the potential to be a new classic on the post-apocalyptic genre front, but the plot is very slow and especially the final act feels forced and rushed and not well thought thru (and its kinda cliche).
Anyway, all in all a rather ambivalent experience but still watchable - for fans of the genre and/or the actors.
Worth the watch
alipaige-788493 August 2018
I was able to see a sneak preview of I Think We're Alone Now at "The Female Gaze" Film Festival in NYC. I had high expectations for the cinematography in this movie by Reed Morano and they exceeded all of them. The lighting was gorgeous and the set design was spot on.
While there isn't a lot of action or answers that one might be looking for in a post apocalyptic flick, you get all the story telling you need out of the nuanced performances by Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning who share an undeniable chemistry.
While there isn't a lot of action or answers that one might be looking for in a post apocalyptic flick, you get all the story telling you need out of the nuanced performances by Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning who share an undeniable chemistry.
what happened to the story?
natalia-antonia-b22 September 2018
It's not for everyone.
expert-8770121 October 2018
Its a slow paced movie and although its categorized as sci-fi, don't expect aliens or such things. Watching this movie feels like you're given parts of the story and not the whole thing which leaves a lot of questions but makes you think about the story and the people rather than just numbingly staring at the screen.
Slow Pacing Capped with a Random Non-Sequitur
gatsby60127 September 2018
I Think We're Alone Now is yet another post-apocalyptic film that finds Del (Peter Dinkage) keeping his home town swept and tidy after everyone else has suddenly died from an unspecified event. Dinkage is great as usual conveying volumes with just a look. Into this well kept world comes Grace (Elle Fanning) a free spirit who has been travelling the wasteland in search of companionship. After this initial meeting what follows is 60 minutes of tedium. The characters bury bodies and basically just look for things to do. Well acted boredom is still boredom. Then, the film ends with a plot twist that has virtually no connection to anything that came previously. It is as baffling as it is stupid. Having Del wake up and realize it was all a dream would have made more sense.
Dinklage Delivers
willamanah30 March 2020
There's not a lot of backstory or dialogue in this flick but Peter Dinklage managed to grab our attention with great acting. To communicate with subtlety is worth watching. I feel like it's something we can all learn from.
Like sitting and reading a good short story.
sweavo-668-94246119 April 2021
Good movie for the right hemisphere of your brain. Don't expect explanations. Expect atmosphere, character and subtle tensions. If you need car chases and explosions, move along. If you are able to put yourself into a character's place and try to see the world like they do, it's a rewarding watch.
Slow
petemackintosh28 February 2019
Could have worked as a 30 min short story, instead it's a long padded out film with lots of slow motion shots and scenes that don't do anything.
The supposed twist was poorly done and mostly meaningless. Overall disappointing and forgettable.
The supposed twist was poorly done and mostly meaningless. Overall disappointing and forgettable.
Pessimistic in the most optimistic way
zhurvic28 October 2018
Can't say this flick gives something new to the genre of post-apocalypse, but it definitely can give you something good to watch and some fresh ideas to mull over.
First of all "I Think We're Alone Now" is it's cast. Both main characters are well-written and amasingly played, chemestry between them is belivable and thier motives are queit understandable. It's interesting enough to watch how these two pollar opposite characters interelate in each joint scene.
Another peculiar fact about this movie is that it feels like a director's monologue about loneliness with or without people around and ability to handle significant loss in your life. Each character here has it's own way of managing such tragedy as a death of someone they knew. And I found it amasing that the idea of being honest to oneself is the most important moral direction for the main characters.
Also I wanna add that the sound accompaniment is great. Intense and dreadful, when it should be. It helps to feel the movie deeply.
If You are ok with something slow-burning but dramatic and thoughtful, You better give it a go, I'm convinced you won't be disappointed.
First of all "I Think We're Alone Now" is it's cast. Both main characters are well-written and amasingly played, chemestry between them is belivable and thier motives are queit understandable. It's interesting enough to watch how these two pollar opposite characters interelate in each joint scene.
Another peculiar fact about this movie is that it feels like a director's monologue about loneliness with or without people around and ability to handle significant loss in your life. Each character here has it's own way of managing such tragedy as a death of someone they knew. And I found it amasing that the idea of being honest to oneself is the most important moral direction for the main characters.
Also I wanna add that the sound accompaniment is great. Intense and dreadful, when it should be. It helps to feel the movie deeply.
If You are ok with something slow-burning but dramatic and thoughtful, You better give it a go, I'm convinced you won't be disappointed.
Good plot ,, had just few gaps but it all turned out really good.
Aktham_Tashtush23 September 2018
So the movie is really enjoyable ,, the plot isn't that original ,, and idea like that tends to be predictable, however in here there was a thrill and mystery covering the first half of the movie ,, even though it got slow in some parts it picked up really quick until it peaked in a steady rate.
The script was tight and strong,, again even though there was some dull empty scenes ,, but i think it was all necessary to build up the character of Del.
Cast wise, the duo of Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning was spectacular ,, i mean in the whole movie there were only 4 actors , yet the movie turned out alright .
100% Recommended .
The script was tight and strong,, again even though there was some dull empty scenes ,, but i think it was all necessary to build up the character of Del.
Cast wise, the duo of Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning was spectacular ,, i mean in the whole movie there were only 4 actors , yet the movie turned out alright .
100% Recommended .
Started intriguingly, built atmosphere.. went nowhere
blakk-7476723 February 2019
Had all the makings of a great film, good actors and music, tense eerie atmosphere but then trudges along slowly before getting to a badly constructed ending that feel tacked on like the writer got bored too and just wrote the first thing that came to mind to get it finished... Disappointing
Kind of a modern Quiet Earth
junk-mail-me-here28 August 2019
Better than I expected. Post-post-apocalyptic. Quiet. Slow. Kinda reminded me of The Quiet Earth (but not quite as good). Has a twist about 2/3rd of the way through but isn't terrible as some poeople report. If you don't mind thinking about things you might like this.\
Slow, slow, slow...... stupid
thekarmicnomad2 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Everybody is dead except for our main character who tends to all the bodies in his village.
He is perfectly happy until a girl appears.
This is an interesting idea for a story and well filmed. However the pace is painfully slow. The vast majority of this film is of the characters doing their everyday thing, which is quite dull.
The characters are interesting and well acted but there is just nothing holding this film together. Every now and then something interesting does happen, but then you have to endure a long, dry montage of washing-up and fishing.
Then right at the end the plot kicks up a gear and something does happen. But what follows is one of the most ridiculous sub plots and endings I have ever seen.
I have a feeling that perhaps there might be some social comment but if it is it is too stupid to worth translating.
This is an interesting idea for a story and well filmed. However the pace is painfully slow. The vast majority of this film is of the characters doing their everyday thing, which is quite dull.
The characters are interesting and well acted but there is just nothing holding this film together. Every now and then something interesting does happen, but then you have to endure a long, dry montage of washing-up and fishing.
Then right at the end the plot kicks up a gear and something does happen. But what follows is one of the most ridiculous sub plots and endings I have ever seen.
I have a feeling that perhaps there might be some social comment but if it is it is too stupid to worth translating.
Yeah its slow. But it's good.
claireymcnabb19 April 2022
The Only Saving Graces (pun intended) of This Movie
Xebug677 May 2020
The only saving graces of this movie were the acting talent and the visuals. What should have been an extremely interesting premise for a post-apocalyptic scenario winds up a huge disappointment due to insufficiency of story. Speaking as a huge Dinklage fan (my fav GOT character was Tyrion Lannister), kudos to both he and Fanning for inspiring performances, as well as a sound out to Paul "can do no wrong" Giamatti and Charlotte Gainsbourg for likewise subtly disturbing performances. The problem I have with this movie is the lack of follow through on Fanning's back story once it unsettlingly invades the present day lives of Dinklage and Fanning. Especially the comment she made about them pairing her (paraphrasing here) with Giamatti and Gainsbourg. The movie further fails for me when moving forward after Fanning leaves with Giamatti and Gainsbourg to return to her former life. Not enough details come to light explaining the existence of this seemingly large group of survivors. There is such a thing as being too subtle in conveying story, and that is the flaw that I find with this movie. I was, however, intrigued by the depth of details involving Dinklage's existence in this new post-apocalyptic world, and his sweetly increasing affectionate and dependent relationship with Fanning. Some of the biggest niggling questions for me, though, were, one, where on earth did those fireworks come from that alerted Dinklage to Fanning's car crash arrival, two, how in the world did Giamatti and Gainsbourg know where to come to find Fanning's character, and not just in this town on the whole, but at the exact house where she was residing when they did find her, and three, the seemingly endlessly available supply of driveable cars and functioning batteries after however much time has passed since this apocalypse first occurred. If I were able to rate the actors in this film separately from the overall movie itself, my rating would be significantly higher, as each of their respective performances were stellar. However, the movie on the whole for me failed to deliver satisfaction.
Speak UP!
richard_r_strauss15 March 2020
Great ambiance movie
funambuline27 September 2018
Zzzzzzzzzzz...
jadg1972-572-58026428 March 2020
I realize that after acting in an incredible ensemble cast ala GoT it is a daunting task to follow, that being said Peter Dinklage was great in The Station Agent long before his turn as everyone's fave Lannister. In "Alone Now" opposite Elle Fanning, Dinklage does his damnedest to draw you in to his post-apocalyptic idealized hometown but with so little to work with and several confusing montage scenes set to Rush blaring from the screen, plus a ludicrous third act that goes nowhere, I can't imagine what the end game was here. Unremarkable in every way and not worth your time.
Intriguing Post-Apocalypse Film
Pairic19 February 2019
I Think We're Alone Now: Del (Richard Dinklage) is alone now. It's Post-Apocalypse and there are plenty of dead bodies to clear out of houses. Del applies himself to this task, it becomes part of his daily routine along with classifying books at the library where he used to work and now lives. Del has always felt apart from others emotionally, even his own family,he now enjoys walking down the deserted main street of his small town. Del's idyll is disrupted by the arrival of Grace (Elle Fanning),, he tends to her after her car crashes but she won't leave and eventually they establish a fragile modus vivendi.
Grace is quirky, she carried a gun in case the dead might reanimate. She joins with Del in the clearing of the houses, he says: for every piece of rubbish cleared there is less chaos. She asks him if anyone ever told him he was weird and he responds: yeah but they're all dead now. Del is in his thirties, quiet and methodical while the teenage Grace dances and plays music, naturally their temperaments clash. But Xs dance across a map as each house in the town is emptied and the bodies buried.
The nature of The Apocalypse is never revealed, people just dropped dead, at home, at work, in their cars and presumably in planes. Cars block highways, filled with rotting corpses but somehow the ever empty streets of a small town appear even more eerie, a white X painted outside of each cleared house. The disorientation of survivors after a doomsday event is illustrated in the differing reactions of Del who retreats inward and sticks to routines and Grace who loves life and wants to find new interests in the seemingly empty world. There are plot turns which cannot be revealed without spoiling the viewing experience. The loose ends are all tied up by films end but perhaps I Think We're Alone Now doesn't deliver as much as it originally seemed to promise. Great performances though by Dinklage and Fanning.
Director and cinematographer Reed Morano working from a script by Mike Makowsky delivers an intriguing Addition to the Post-Apocalypse Film Genre. 7/10. On Netflix.
Grace is quirky, she carried a gun in case the dead might reanimate. She joins with Del in the clearing of the houses, he says: for every piece of rubbish cleared there is less chaos. She asks him if anyone ever told him he was weird and he responds: yeah but they're all dead now. Del is in his thirties, quiet and methodical while the teenage Grace dances and plays music, naturally their temperaments clash. But Xs dance across a map as each house in the town is emptied and the bodies buried.
The nature of The Apocalypse is never revealed, people just dropped dead, at home, at work, in their cars and presumably in planes. Cars block highways, filled with rotting corpses but somehow the ever empty streets of a small town appear even more eerie, a white X painted outside of each cleared house. The disorientation of survivors after a doomsday event is illustrated in the differing reactions of Del who retreats inward and sticks to routines and Grace who loves life and wants to find new interests in the seemingly empty world. There are plot turns which cannot be revealed without spoiling the viewing experience. The loose ends are all tied up by films end but perhaps I Think We're Alone Now doesn't deliver as much as it originally seemed to promise. Great performances though by Dinklage and Fanning.
Director and cinematographer Reed Morano working from a script by Mike Makowsky delivers an intriguing Addition to the Post-Apocalypse Film Genre. 7/10. On Netflix.
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