Alpha’s not the movie that most moviegoers have been waiting desperately all summer long to see and it’s sliding into theaters with comparatively little fanfare - it’s certainly not the leader of the pack when it comes to the season’s major studios releases. That said, don’t dismiss this as a dud that the studio is trying to hide or purely a family movie aimed at being little more than a distraction for kids at the tail end of their school holidays. Directed by Albert Hughes and set in the Ice Age, Alpha is the story of a young man, Keda (played by Kodi Smit-McPhee) who is left for dead by his tribe when his first hunt goes wrong and tries to survive alone in the wilderness.