I like Eric Roberts and Dylan Walsh is a well known actor. They must be really desperate for money if they did this. It's like they took Stephen King's "the Dark Half", stripped it down to an hour long made for TV movie, tossed that script and had a thousand monkeys pounding on a thousand typewriters to come up with this.
The movie bounces back in forth in time, quite annoyingly, I might add. The first ten minutes of the movie (a 75 minute movie, including opening and closing credits, mind you) there is absolutely ZERO dialog. You can see the ending coming from the opening credits. For some unknown reason, there are four characters who feel the need to speak Spanish for a few lines... in Up State New York.... having no bearing on anything. Eric Roberts lines are overdriven so it's hard to understand him. The manager, who claims to be the author's friend, is only concerned with the manuscript.
Do yourself a favor. If you think you might enjoy this plot... skip this and go watch "the Dark Half." I promise, you will thank me.
Alter Ego
2021
Action / Crime / Thriller
Alter Ego
2021
Action / Crime / Thriller
95%
TOMATOMETER
3.1/10
153
Plot summary
Detective DiBiasse (Eric Roberts) goes to his last crime scene at the Mansion of a wealthy, paranoid recluse named Alan Schaeffer (Dylan Walsh). He brings with him a new detective and starts explaining the strange story of Alan Schaeffer. A man who recently insisted that one of his creations was coming to kill him, but had no evidence to back up his claim. Surrounded by security that reportedly sees nothing, nobody can help Alan Schaeffer and so the police moved on. Now the Detective is back at this mansion with a horrible, brutal crime scene and no suspect in sight.
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February 08, 2022 at 05:59 PM
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Low Rent "Dark Half"
I'm going to die tonight
Frictional crime author Sean Alan Smythe (Dylan Walsh) is convinced his fictional serial killer is going to kill him in his gated community in Nyak. Ivan Tanner his fictional character is also the name of a real person whose life was ruined by his books. His final book's title "Alter Ego" is in script and not yet published.
The opening music was nerve racking with impending doom. The story is told in the present with police on the scene and in the past with the author talking to a security guard. I was not overly impressed with the too often used technique in films to give us a head fake. Eric Roberts still sucks and doesn't belong in films.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
A well produced thriller
Alter ego is about a genius author who spends a night in his mansion by himself waiting for his creation to destroy him. Good acting, clever storyline and in all a well produced film. It's always nice to see Eric Roberts in films and though it's on a indie budget they made it work. This is at least a 7. It's a weekend type of movie.