As allegory this is good. As a movie, it's only okay.

A hip piece of Orwellian sci-fi, in the French style. Anna Karina is enigmatically beautiful and Constantine is so cool he's almost catatonic. The philosophical stuff is a little heavy-handed, but the film's black-and-white photography looks great.

Quite boring compilation of odd scenes and the story is not that special either. Too artsy for me.

Once more, Godard attempts something complex and impressive in a form I can't get with.

Maybe the story isn't that great, but Godard give to his movies an unique charm.

godard's futuristic vision of big brother, a message he accomplishes to transfer using minimalistic sets and dialogues

I hate to lower a score based on a single complaint, but I think I'd have liked this film a lot more if it weren't for Alpha 60's voice. It's so hideously unpleasant that it detracted from my enjoyment of the film. If it had sounded something like HAL, then I might have loved Alphaville; as it is, the voice is incredibly distracting, and turned at least one sequence that could have been perfect into a grating experience. Was that the point? Probably, but it didn't work for me.

Godard's film, like its protagonist, cherishes emotion, giving Alphaville a rich storyline in its denunciation of the titular city's coolly logical, opressive system. It's really quite stark. Also, I'd be tempted to suggest Anna Karina has never looked more beautiful, but surely need to see more of her work before I can do that.

The stifling of individuality, emotion, and expression are tired themes, but Godard's realization of them is certainly unique. I didn't completely fall in love with this film, but I admire the hell out of it, and its sci-fi noir style has had considerable influence.

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Maybe when I grow old and senile, I will be able to appreciate something as self-absorbed and didactic as "Alphaville", but, for now, I simply cannot get involved in something so pretentious and boring. The noirish first five minutes or so are really promising, but then the film descends into Godard's typical pseudo-philosophical drooling. It's well-shot throughout and conceptually original, but the utter lack of a concise plot, characters or ideas and the heavy moralizing are vexatious.

Film Noir meets 1984 meets James Bond.

"A humorous satiric blend of film-noir (complete with a serious, trenchcoat-clad detective), and sci-fi... The big joke and cinematic stunt is that no special effects were used, Alphaville is Paris, and his space ship is a car. Added to the mix is Godard's usual slew of obscure references and in-jokes. Probably the most entertaining film Godard ever made but that's not saying too much."

lots of cool, albeit often nonsensical details. weak acting by the main character, the stupid hat and trenchcoat combination, stupid love ending as well as the major 1984 ripoff drags it down.

Dystopian future film full of pretentious and empty dialogues. Curious mixture of a Multivac-like story through a nouvelle vague lense, meaning those same and easily interchangeable 'deep' scenes of nouvelle, bad acting, many things made wrong that look comical on purpose (but probably aren't) and feeling they're laughing at you. Paraphrasing: "It was my first 30 minutes in Alphaville but it seemed to me that centuries had passed". Quoting: "It's always like that. You never understand anything".