Punk graphics and a snaking camera add zest to the story, which is alternately heartbreaking, suspenseful, and darkly funny.
Save The Green Planet! (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 34
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Consensus: A funny and wildly inventive hybrid of various genres, Save the Green Planet! is definitely a unique viewing experience.
Theatrical Release:Apr 20, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Finally, an Asian movie that matters gets an American release. SAVE THE GREEN PLANET is a tilt-a whirl genre-blender from Korea that turns film history against itself to create one of the most... Finally, an Asian movie that matters gets an American release. SAVE THE GREEN PLANET is a tilt-a whirl genre-blender from Korea that turns film history against itself to create one of the most savage, affecting and inspired anti-violence movies ever made. This is a movie that defies all marketing labels and is exactly what it wants to be: like nothing you've ever seen before. Lee Byeong-Gu (Shin Ha-Gyun, JSA) is a sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi films whose life has been derailed by one bad break after another. Yet he knows there's no such thing as bad luck. The only thing that could have made such a mess of his life are...aliens. Nasty, disgusting aliens who have infiltrated human society. Sly aliens who are planning to destroy our planet at the next lunar eclipse. The one alien possessing the Royal Genetic Code needed to contact the Crown Prince and stop the destruction just happens to be his old boss, CEO of Yuje Chemicals, Kang Man-Shik (Baek Yun-Shik). So with the help of his circus-performer girlfriend he sets out to kidnap Kang and torture him until he confesses to his alien identity and stops the invasion. Of course, it's hard to confess to something that's just a delusion in a sick man's mind. First time director Jang Jun-Hwan has marshaled every trick in his cinematic arsenal to unleash a full-out moviemaking assault on the audience. Shot for $4 million, this stylish flick looks like something Terry Gilliam would come up with if he were in a really bad mood. Funny, brilliant and moving, SAVE THE GREEN PLANET is one-of-a-kind. © -- Koch Lorber Films [More]
Starring: Shin Ha-gyun, Baek Yun-Shik
Starring: Shin Ha-gyun, Baek Yun-Shik
Director: Jang Jun-Hwan
Director: Jang Jun-Hwan
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Reviews for Save The Green Planet!
Part thriller, part dark comedy, part sci-fi epic, Save the Green Planet is both insanely addictive and completely insane.
The film oscillates between wild humour, suspense, horror and pathos, sometimes all in one shot. It's quite something.
Save the Green Planet may look like an ironic, jet black comedy -- and it succeeds brilliantly on that level -- but in it’s sad and wistful heart, it’s a completely sincere call for saving the Earth.
Save The Green Planet has a free-ranging mood, mixing tragedy and comedy irregularly, but Jeong's film is equally free with genre, and entertains its audience openly before pouring on the astringent.
Writer/director Jang Jun Hwan has an imagination to be envied, and luckily he knows how to deploy it to full effect
All this melodramatic wackiness might be entertaining B-movie material if it weren’t dragged down by boringly deadly battles between cartoon characters.
Por incrível que pareça, a estranhíssima mistura de gêneros orquestrada por Jun-hwan Jeong funciona muitíssimo bem na maior parte do tempo.
Like any roller-coaster ride, it may make you queasy, but you'll never be bored.
Made up of equal parts whimsy and dementia, Jang Jun-hwan relentlessly pushes his story of madness, revenge and petty power plays to the limit.
Demented yet somehow humane, Save The Green Planet is a visually ingenious hybrid melding horror, black comedy, revenge thriller and science fiction into an unpredictable, cohesive whole.
While Save The Green Planet has a certain cult appeal for its wicked, subversive tone, it is such a mess in terms of tone and storyline that it may lose most viewers before they get to the end.
There's a very human story within the one involving possible space aliens.
The film's success is mainly down to its vibrant energy. Cinematography is zappy, making much use of tricky visual effects, and performances are manic.
Somehow, Jang manages to meld shocking sadism, slapstick laughs and a poignant political plea into a head-spinning trip that, it seems safe to say, is like none you've taken before.
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