I agree, ringhawk2000! The ending was a little Night of the Living Deadish. However, in NOTLD, there is a slide show which depicts the atrocities committed against human bodies as they are dragged by meat hooks to a raging bonfire... a horrific visual of desecration. The end of Alpha Incident, is a freeze-frame of Sorenson clutching his stomach... dull and disappointing compared to NOTLD.
I shrugged and dismissed it. I was wondering how I would have liked the movie to end. Does Sorenson live or die? If he lives, does he continue to work for the government (who supplied them with poison)? Hmm… Does he live to leak the incident to the press?
If he died, how does he die? Taking a cyanide tablet? Fall asleep? Shoots himself like Jenny?
Then again, why did they shoot Sorenson? The agents in the plastic suits could have taken him in an incubator and poked, prodded, injected and done all kinds of crazy tests in him. That would have been better.
The saddest and most tragic loss in the film was that Jenny and Charley didn’t live to face up to their languishing desires before they died. I think they were meant for each other. Oh, well… art reflects life.
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stargazer1701-1
15 years ago
By the end, it’s true that we don’t know if Sorenson was infected. Maybe he was and maybe he wasn’t. But it was the decision of the scientific body in this film to kill every one in the depot because they had no cure. Death was the only way to insure that the contamination wouldn’t spread.
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jjk50
14 years ago
DrMinaker is right. There's no doubt Sorenson isn't infected but gets shot anyway. Clearly the ending is stolen from Night of the Living Dead. Not surprising considering that a director like Bill Rebane would steal from someone far more talented than he is.
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