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Critics Consensus: Before We Vanish finds Kiyoshi Kurosawa working within well-established genre guidelines to take a poignant, surprisingly sincere look at the human condition.
Critic Consensus: Before We Vanish finds Kiyoshi Kurosawa working within well-established genre guidelines to take a poignant, surprisingly sincere look at the human condition.
All Critics (42) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (10)
As an experiment in blending the minute character observations of Kurosawa's dramas into a pure genre plot, Before We Vanish does succeed.
It's a quirky hybrid of a film that mostly works, thanks to some fine performances and by a script to goes in unexpected directions.
An unsettling, and sometimes high-concept doodle, but it's awfully hard to resist a film that marries Atomic Age paranoia and optimism with Kurosawa's signature post-modern, atmosphere-intensive style.
Although a tighter cut of the 130-minute Before We Vanish would likely be an improvement, it might lose this version's intriguing asides.
The movie plods and meanders through an overly-familiar narrative on its way to a half-baked and uneven conclusion.
Beneath its cheeky, scattershot surface is a surprisingly earnest core, as well as a sincere inquiry into what exactly humanity stands to lose in the face of its looming extinction.
Before We Vanish delights as much as it confuses - and, considering its slower pace and two-plus hour running time - occasionally bores.
The plot takes some unexplained - or inexplicable - twists.
Insanely fun and ambitious, but also quite melancholic.
Kurosawa tackles some pretty big ideas about the human condition, again in his signature style of deliberate, understated precision.
Sardonic, satiric aliens invade horror without the wit, urgency or style to come off.
Before We Vanish is very funny, very bloody, and doesn't have a happy ending.
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