Alice
Directed by Krystin Ver Linden
Written by Krystin Ver Linden
Starring Keke Palmer, Common, Johnny Lee Miller, Alicia Witt
Release Date March 18th, 2022
Alice stars Keke Palmer as a woman named Alice who has been raised as a slave. Alice is a captive on a Georgia plantation so deep in the woods that word of the end of the Civil War never reached the people held captive there. We know this because we’ve seen the trailer and therein lies a fatal flaw in the film-making concept behind Alice. The movie drags on for nearly 40 minutes crafting an air of mystery and secrets while illustrating life on the plantation as if setting us up for a shocking reveal that we're already fully aware of.
Perhaps this an issue of studio marketing not working with the filmmaker before launching into a promotional campaign, but regardless it makes Alice a tough sit on top of it already being a questionable premise from the start. Alice plays like a mixture of the influence of M Night Shyamalan and Quentin Tarentino-light with Shyamalan’s commercial horror crossed with a neutered version of Tarentino’s transgressive politics.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
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