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3.0 out of 5 stars
low budget, but good hard scifi, January 31, 2008
This review is from: The Alpha Incident (DVD)
This is about a mysterious infectious agent, that of course escapes - in Alaska, through which it was being transported on its way to a bio-facility. There is a group quarantined, so it is a kind of character study. Left to themselves, they interact in strange ways, waiting and hoping for a cure, freaking out to put it mildly. It is really scary, at least for me, as I always feared this kind of alien contamination in scifi when I was growing up. Very much like Andromeda Strain, but much much darker. The actors are a bit amateurish, but not so bad. Recommended.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
One of Bill Rebane's Better Movies, January 12, 2012
A low budget rip-off of the Andromeda Strain, the Alpha Incident is one of the better films to come from 1970s B-movie director Bill Rebane. The film deals with a group of strangers who, after possibly being exposed to an alien virus, are quarantined in a station house. As they struggle to maintain their sanity as they wait to discover whether or not they've been infected, the U.S. military plots to make the quarantine permanent. The Alpha Incident isn't for everyone. The low budget is obvious, some of the acting is rather wooden (but some of it is surprisingly good as well), and Bill Rebane never quite overcomes the staginess of the material. However, if you're a fan of 70s exploitation cinema, The Alpha Incident is a must see because this film represents everything that we love about those old B-movies. Yes, director Rebane had more ambition than resources but the important thing is that he had the ambition and, even without all the CGI and spectacle that we now take for granted, he still managed to do a fairly good job of fulfilling those ambitions. Add to that, the whole film ends on one of those wonderfully downbeat notes that were so typical of 70s cinema but which few directors have the guts to try today. The Alpha Incident is, in many ways, a relic of a past age and I guess that's why I enjoyed it and recommend it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
The Alpha Incident (1978), January 16, 2011
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A Mars space proble returns to Earth and brings with it a microorganism from the red planet. While transporting the microscopic alien life form by train, there is an accident and the microorganism is unleased. Exposure to the alient virus forces four strangers into quarantine while government scientists rush to find a cure.
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