Alpha Dog
Drug trafficker Johnny Troylov returns to threaten Jake Mazurski in a seemingly money-related case for Johnny, the disastrous man. Joni returns by storming into Johnny's house, but Juni returns to kidnap Zack, 15, Jack's brother. It's violent and exciting chases that begin with Johnny, who appoints Frankie to be Zach's pursuers and develop a fraternal friendship. The events may then change under the FBI's hunt and the presence of these gangs in the internationally banned tabloid.
10 January 1961, Bridgeton, Missouri, USA
26 January 1964, Spokane, Washington, USA
16 January 1967, San Francisco, California, USA
21 September 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 May 1977, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
29 October 1980, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
April 20, 2007
Nick Cassavetes' film combines an aimless ramble through juvenile depravity in the affluent suburbs of LA and a quite disturbing evocation of the true-life murder of an adolescent boy in 1999.
January 12, 2007
Cassavetes starts to lose the plot at the precise moment he starts keeping exact track of it.
April 19, 2007
A movie which has been put together with occasional skill but lacks a compelling reason to exist.
August 10, 2007
Cassavetes' film is pure Hollywood fiction and sensationalism mixed with some sense of reality, but hell I enjoyed it a great deal...
February 03, 2007
The worst movie of the year.
June 25, 2007
A lackluster teenage true-crime tale.
January 12, 2007
[Alpha Dog is] intermittently bemused or tragic, but utterly lacking a conscience or a point of view.
April 20, 2007
Stylishly and thoughtfully directed by Nick Cassavetes, Alpha Dog is occasionally chilling, but always absorbing.
January 13, 2007
Alpha Dog is no travesty, but I would trade 95 percent accuracy for, say, 25 percent insight.
April 20, 2007
Its originality lies in the fact that it depicts white middle-class kids on the loose, calling their women bitches and listening endlessly to violent, misogynist and homophobic black rap.
November 06, 2010
This inspired-by-reality tale is essentially an emotional snuff film. It's the kind of misguided effort a middle-aged director indulges in when he wants to reinvent himself as edgy.
February 05, 2007
Justin Timberlake has what it takes to be a genuine movie star.
