Filmmakers who create thrillers should absorb the lesson that simpler is usually better. An excellent primer would be John Hyams' lean, mean suspenser that delivers its undeniably familiar plot mechanics in tightly paced, unadorned fashion.
Depicting the struggle for survival of a young woman who has the unfortunate luck to encounter a homicidal stalker on the sparsely populated highways of the Pacific Northwest, Alone proves a highly effective genre exercise.
The film's early section recalls Steven Spielberg's classic Duel as it includes a vehicular cat-and-mouse game between Jessica (a very good Jules Willcox, Netflix's Bloodline) and the driver of a black Jeep Grand Cherokee who seems to be deliberately messing with her.
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