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Critics Consensus: A funny and wildly inventive hybrid of various genres, Save the Green Planet! is definitely a unique viewing experience.
Critic Consensus: A funny and wildly inventive hybrid of various genres, Save the Green Planet! is definitely a unique viewing experience.
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Punk graphics and a snaking camera add zest to the story, which is alternately heartbreaking, suspenseful, and darkly funny.
The film oscillates between wild humour, suspense, horror and pathos, sometimes all in one shot. It's quite something.
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.
Like any roller-coaster ride, it may make you queasy, but you'll never be bored.
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.
Entertaining, visually inventive and truly out-there.
Clearly designed to win a cult following, its "chuck everything, including the kitchen sink in" approach to weirdery treads a fine line between "endearingly bat's-arse" and "trying a bit too hard".
Part thriller, part dark comedy, part sci-fi epic, Save the Green Planet is both insanely addictive and completely insane.
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.
Wrapped up in all this madness is an affecting human core.
Save the Green Planet just can't shake its repellent, stagnant mood.
Writer/director Jang Jun Hwan has an imagination to be envied, and luckily he knows how to deploy it to full effect
Bizarrely impressive, Save The Green Planet! is an obtrusive South Korean hybrid of ridiculous mystery, grotesque suspense, odd romance, eccentric science fiction, and dark humor that follows the dangerous obsession of a man with the extraterrestrial. Save The Green Planet! may be corrupt, but the inventive original idea is preposterously remarkable that frankly created a new genre, which Save The Green Planet! selfishly occupy. Organized chaos.
Super Reviewer
What a delight, A multi-genre film that successfully twists your emotions & thoughts, Not just some random images and actually an Impressive & thought-provoking experience
Save the Green Planet is a film that refuses to be defined by a single genre and goes against what you may have come to expect from cinema. It's true originality packaged in comfortable surroundings. The story may sound like a comedy but this is hard hitting, thought provoking and at times, difficult to watch. The film keeps us guessing as to whether the aliens exist, it's all the ravings of a madman, or maybe a bit of both. It deals with human nature in a frank and unsettling way. We are given a protagonist that we gradually become more and more distant from. The comedy is very dark but not so much that it isolates the viewer. One scene has a character shoot at a swarm of bees in a sad attempt stop them from attacking. The film laughs at this action by showing a couple of bees fall to the ground dead. This one moment sums up one of the main points of postponing the inevitable. To say what the film is truly about is to give away the ending. A film that demands another watch.
A disgruntled ex-factory worker kidnaps the CEO of his former employer, convinced that he is an evil alien out to destroy the world in one week's time. But then again, he could just be a delusional lunatic...This complete fruitloop of a film is unlike anything else you are going to see. For most of the film it's like a semi-comic version of Misery as Byung-gu sadistically tortures the man while a similarly oddball cop who's been demoted to kitchen duty tries to track him down. Then as a ploy to escape, his victim concocts a Usual Suspects style history of the planet consisting of every pop culture sci-fi story combined with pre-history, myth and religion. And then it just gets WEIRD! Starting off as a cross between Seven and Misery and ending up like The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, this has got to be one of the best sci-fi-comedy-horror-serial killer movies I've seen....Totally hatstand.
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