I didn't expect "Alpha" to be a great movie. I only wanted to spend a couple of hours watching a nice family movie about dog-human bonding. However, I cringed at some things from the very beginning. For instance, they all had trimmed beards and wore nice sewed jackets. Hard to maintain the suspension of disbelief. Even the wolf's behavior is unrealistic. An adult pregnant hungry wolf is very grateful and becomes very submissive and compliant in a couple of days, throwing away all her animal instincts. I can't make my dog take a bath but the human in the movie in less than a week gets to make her jump into a pool for fun. Then the wolf reunites briefly with the pack but they leave the human boy alone, an easy prey, because, you know, they are nice animals.