Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Definitively I and Jean-Luc Godard don't get along with each other in what concerns films and filming. I didn't like any of his films I have seen previously and didn't like this one either. What does it mean and what does he want to communicate or say to us in all his films? Is he serious or is he just kidding with crime or science-fi or even love stories? Does he want to pass on any message to us? Which is it? I am not so stupid but if he is considered one of the best movie directors of our times by most responsible critics maybe the fault is mine. This movie takes place in Alphaville, a supposed extraterrestrial town in some exterior galaxy but that looks like any current town or city in this world like New York or Paris for instance, peopled by apparently normal people normally dressed. Some scenes are quite ordinary, some dialogues too but some others show very odd behaviours and incoherent talking. You travel out of the galaxy by car and by road for instance. Which codes and symbols is Godard recurring to? He once said: To make a movie we only need a gun and a woman. Is this the answer maybe?

This review is mainly a getting of things off my chest.Firstly - the voice of the computer, Alpha 60 (and what a hugely imaginative name that is!), made me want to kill somebody. The director, most likely. Then I found out from Sometimesaccurateopedia that apparently the voice was that of a post-cancer surgery victim with a mechanical larynx, and I felt guilty: for attacking this man's disability - I still felt fine about killing Jean-Luc Godard for getting him to do the computer's voice.Secondly - the entire dialogue, which purports to expound the 'plot', is a load of wishy-washy rubbish that can't make up its mind if it wants to be solipsist, romantic or humanist, and finally cops out with a resounding crash and settles on 'The Power Of Love Will Save Us All'.Thirdly - the SF is utter garbage. Concepts that were old and hackneyed even in 1964/5, and so many complete absurdities ('galaxies', using 'light-years' incorrectly...) that any science is pushed off stage-left - it must, then, be Art! Even if Alphaville is supposed to be taken as a spoof, it still proves one thing: those with only Arts qualifications should not, ever, attempt Science Fiction.OK, my chest feels lighter.Reading up on this film I've seen it described in so many different ways by those who praise it - as in, literally a couple of dozen different ways - that I now have to conclude something: it's a mess, and nobody really knows what it means - which means that it means... nothing.So - I hereby dump any attempt to analyse it.Instead I will swap to the positive, and say one last thing:It is, truly, beautiful to look at. It's just one, long, B&W, noir scene-experiment - and that's what kept me watching. That, and the surreality of it being set 'out' of time, in an unknown Paris.As a film, Alphaville is rubbish! As a moving object - with the sound off to get rid of the awful music and Alpha 60's nausitating voice - it's gorgeous! - -- ---

In a near future, the American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) travels to Alphaville posing as the journalist Ivan Johnson from the Figaro-Pravda newspaper. His mission is to find the missing agent Henry Dickson (Akim Tamirof) and to convince Professor von Braun (Howard Vernon) to come with him to Nueva York. Prof. von Braun is actually Leonard Nosferatu and has created the powerful computer Alpha 60 that has conceived the inhuman dystopian society of Alphaville, where love, conscience, poetry and emotion have been banished and words are systematically eliminated from the dictionary. Alpha 60 is also omnipresent and Lemmy has the assistance of Natacha von Braun (Anna Karina), who is the daughter of von Braun. Soon he falls in love with Natacha but he needs to complete his mission before leaving Alphaville."Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy" is my favorite Godard movie and maybe his most digestible film despite being weird. This is the third time that I see this sci-fi noir (last time was on 07 September 2001) and it is still an intriguing story that resembles George Orwell's 1984, inclusive with the idea of rewriting the dictionary removing words related to emotions and including new ones. The scary atmosphere gives the sensation of nightmare and the sets and locations are ahead of time. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Alphaville"

An American secret agent (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.I do not even know where to begin with this... a film noir combined with a science fiction film, set in a future which is also the past... and in French, with a very disturbing voice-over...I am not even going to try to review this. Amazing, yes, but I would not know how to express my thoughts or opinions on such a film... it is just bizarre. And then throw in the connection to Jean Cocteau and Greek mythology...