Alter Egos Just Another Super Hero Flick

            I bought Alter Egos after I saw it in the movie store on really big discount. The idea of the story sounded interesting and new, but in the end it was just another super hero movie. It wasn’t a bad movie really, it just wasn’t anything special.

            Alter Egos takes place in a reality where super heroes are real and one of them is having a bit of an identity crisis. Brendan, Kris Lemche, has come to realize that his girlfriend is cheating on him with his alter ego Fridge and to top it off he’s been told that just maybe his Dad didn’t kill his Mom and himself.

            Director/writer Jordan Galland says that he is always looking for something new that has never been done and one day he was sitting there and it just came to him, super heroes. Umm, call me crazy but that’s not really a new idea, especially for 2012. I mean in 2012 we had both The Green Lantern and The Avengers. Even if he was thinking that his unusual twist was the identity crisis then he lost out on that original idea to The Green Lantern. The whole movie, counting credits, is about 77 minutes long. In that time we go through twist after twist not really knowing where we are going to end up. The movie feels like it has no purpose except to poke fun at the world of super heroes. Of course it’s not actually supposed to poke fun but that is how it comes across throughout the movie. To add to it Galland thought it was a good idea to mention better movies in the dialogue. All this did for me was make me think ‘Wow, I’d rather be watching The Shining’. All in all this movie just leaves you sort of wishing you hadn’t watched it in the first place. But if you do watch it at least watch it through to the end so you can make your own fair judgment. Don’t be one of those people that watches five minutes of a movie and then raves about how horrible it was. I myself watched Alter Egos twice before writing this review.

If you're interested in this movie check out the preview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewfrkpYmSQ 

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