
In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people crashes on the Andes Mountains and after the search party, they are considered dead. Two months after the crash, the sixteen survivors are finally rescued. Along the days, the starved survivors decide to eat flesh from the bodies of their comrades to survive.... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people crashes on the Andes Mountains and after the search party, they are considered dead. Two months after the crash, the sixteen survivors are finally rescued. Along the days, the starved survivors decide to eat flesh from the bodies of their comrades to survive.
Leave your thoughts about Alive.
| Movie HabitMarty MapesThe picture, the sound, and above all, the outstanding true story, make Alive a must-see |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversAlive draws considerable power from staying more human than heroic. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenMarshall is a good technician, but there's no sense of artistic adventure in his sometimes exciting, sometimes draggy movie. He's content to scratch the surface of a great and harrowing story. |
| The Seattle TimesJohn HartlAlive is no Oscar-challenger, certainly, but it does treat a very dicey incident with the even-keeled direction the story deserves. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA gonzo splatterfest from New Zealand that manages to stay breezy and good-natured even as you're watching heads get snapped off of spurting torsos. |
| Reel.comSarah ChaunceyThere are better real-life disaster flicks out there... and the flesh looks remarkably like chicken. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovThe "Citizen Kane" of Oedipal zombie-cannibal-right to death-comedy-love stories... So gleefully over-the-top that it's decidedly hard not to gag while you're laughing yourself incontinent... Sick. Perverse. Brilliant. |
| Hartford CourantMalcolm JohnsonNeither Shanley's screenplay nor Marshall's direction serve Read's story ideally. The dialogue tends to be trite or tedious, and the handling of the relationships of the survivors fail to define individual characters in a strong, clear way. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeDespite being broadly classified as an "adventure", it has depth and breadth that would put many dramas to shame. Well-produced, acted, and scripted, this is a film that has to be seen to be experienced, even by those who know the entire story. |
| VarietyDavid StrattonTechnically, this is Jackson's best to date, with state of the art creature and gore effects by Richard Taylor and prosthetics design by Bob McCarron. There's any amount of dismemberment, disembowelling, beheading, and the like, all of it handled with bloody conviction. |