Save the Green Planet!

Totally bonkers - very Korean.

Save the Green Planet is a mash-up of genres; it is sci-fi with light elements of horror and comedy, but most notably, tragedy. In such an over-the-top outlandish film like this, it's the human elements, the moral ambiguity, and the tragic reflection on cycles of violence and self destruction that stand out. However, without spoiling anything, I will say that my most pointed criticism of Green Planet is that the aforementioned subtleties are overshadowed--and perhaps weakened by--some late game twists that border on nihilism and are at best absurdist. An intended contrast for sure when there's such stark realities at play here, but a contrast that made the film's messages a little uneven.

An annoying, grating mess of a movie. Amateurish junk. No sympathetic characters. Wretched script. Miserable direction with no sense of pacing. Everyone constantly shouting. I couldn't wait for it to end.

A violent hope-killing tragedy that brilliantly makes fun of how Hollywood often make one-dimensional characters with one innocent hero and one merciless villain all the time, here in SAVE THE GREEN PLANET!, the kidnapper is all three a complete idiot, a psychopath and a tragic man and even though SAVE THE GREEN PLANET is science fiction, it is very self-aware it's science fiction, only using such science fiction regarding aliens, UFOs, dinosaurs and mind control to create a twisted unbelievably bizarre alien victim for the kidnapper. It should be noted that South Korean filmmakers hate science fiction and/or consider it to be lazy writing, they favor romance, drama, comedy, tragedy so much that it makes up 99% of their entertainment industry, 1% is science fiction or fantasy.

Gratuitous Bull Twaddle!

this film most wonderful !

This movie is not unwatchably bad but I couldn't stop facepalming throughout. It's like a horror movie punctuated by cartoonish slapstick humor. There is a twist and it's cool but I saw it from a million miles away. I don't know...the tone is all over the place. You never know which character to root for because they're all unlikable. The main issue is that it just goes on forever and is way more torture porn than it is storytelling. It's not insulting to your intelligence, it's not full of cliches or disjointed nonsense, but it's just not that good. If you REALLY want to see a Korean Cyberpunk film, this is decent. If you haven't seen the Godfather or Citizen Kane, or any classics like that yet, go watch one of them instead.

unübertroffen verrückt

Top-to-bottom hilarious and creative.

'Black-comedy sci-fi thriller' is an oddball label for anything, but it's as close as you'll find to a description of what you get with this one. A loner kidnaps a businessman and tortures him to prove that he's an alien...or is he? Is our lead actually crazy, or is he really on to something? Great little flick, well worth a rental.