Save The Green Planet (2003)

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• Jan Marc M

  
  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… More
  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.

• Arash X

  
  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

• Anthony L

  
  Bonkers as anything and sometimes a little hard to follow, but overall brilliantly bizarre.

• Luke B

  
  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… More
  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.

• xGary X

  
  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… More
  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.

• Ken S

  
  Soooo much fun. A delightful, silly, scary, funny and completely entertaining film

• Tsubaki S

  
  A unique cinematic experience in the best way possible. A film that joyfully jumps from one genre to another with such tight precision and timing that it's amazing this was the first film from it's director. While another film would have choked trying to incorporate so many… More
  A unique cinematic experience in the best way possible. A film that joyfully jumps from one genre to another with such tight precision and timing that it's amazing this was the first film from it's director. While another film would have choked trying to incorporate so many genres, the way STGP gets away with it has to be seen to believe. There is some bloodshed, but this is hardly a gore cheap-fest, there is drama, very dark comedy, sci-fi and even some kung fu trow in the mix. At the core the film actually contains a very strong social commentary. A shame that many will see this just as a mindless experiment in genre-fusion, when it's actually a whole lot more than that. An absolute must see.

• Saskia D

  
  One of the weirdest movies I've ever seen! A surprising combination of humor, horror and drama.

• Walter M

  
  [font=Century Gothic][color=green]"Save the Green Planet!" is a movie from South Korea which starts out with Byeong-gu(a beekeeper and mannequin maker) and his loyal sidekick, Sooni(a tightrope walker), kidnapping Kang, an executive of a chemical factory. Byeong-gu believes… More
  [font=Century Gothic][color=green]"Save the Green Planet!" is a movie from South Korea which starts out with Byeong-gu(a beekeeper and mannequin maker) and his loyal sidekick, Sooni(a tightrope walker), kidnapping Kang, an executive of a chemical factory. Byeong-gu believes Kang to be an alien from Andromeda and tortures him about an upcoming visit from an alien prince. So, obviously he's insane, right?("Somewhere over the Rainbow" is an often-played refrain.) [/color][/font] [font=Century Gothic][color=#008000][/color][/font] [font=Century Gothic][color=#008000]"Save the Green Planet!" is a wild, cracked, irreverent movie with a twisted sense of humor and a tender heart undeneath everything. It is also quite visually impressive. On the one hand, it is very violent but it is also anti-violence. It seems to think torture is not the best way to get to know someone. And I loved the ending.[/color][/font]

• Lesley N

  
  Part Old Boy style hostage gore thriller, part eco-logical sci fi, part quirky comedy. Mad-as-a-loon Byung-Gu with his tightrope-walker girlfriend-sidekick captures the CEO of a large chemical company, and tries to torture him into confessing he's an alien from Andromeda and out… More
  Part Old Boy style hostage gore thriller, part eco-logical sci fi, part quirky comedy. Mad-as-a-loon Byung-Gu with his tightrope-walker girlfriend-sidekick captures the CEO of a large chemical company, and tries to torture him into confessing he's an alien from Andromeda and out to destroy the world (before the police resue him or the next lunar eclipse, whichever comes first). It's all true you know. <img src="http://madmojo.blogs.com/madmojo/images/greenplanet_1.jpg">

• Daniel P

  
  One of the most unique films I have ever seen, <I>Save The Green Planet!</I> combines science fiction, horror, thriller, comedy and camp in a hugely successful way. Difficult to summarise effectively, it's about a disturbed young man called Byung-Gu who is convinced… More
  One of the most unique films I have ever seen, <I>Save The Green Planet!</I> combines science fiction, horror, thriller, comedy and camp in a hugely successful way. Difficult to summarise effectively, it's about a disturbed young man called Byung-Gu who is convinced that aliens are amongst us, and that they are the root cause of the destruction and pain in society. Certain that Earth will be destroyed in a matter of weeks unless he can find the leader of the planet Andromeda, Byung-Gu sets out to kidnap the head of a huge multi-national company, who he is sure is an extraterrestrial in disguise, and torture him for information about the leader's whereabouts. <p>Tonally all over the place, it's a miracle that so much of <I>Planet</I> not only works, but works so beautifully. The genius is that even as Byung-Gu commits horrific torture against Kang Man-shik (the 'ET in disguise'), he is still absolutely sympathetic. Not only that, our sympathies also shift to the other characters in the piece, all well round people with motivations of their own. Writer/Director Jang Jun-Hwan has a knack for juxtaposition, so that whenever there's a campily funny moment it's segued into something heart-rending or else tense as hell. <p>There are two especially brilliant sequences later on in this film that deftly pack in a tonne of information and exposition into five minutes of screen time, without overloading or confusing. The first shows the life so far of Byung-Gu, as violence erupts all around him and on top of him, and it becomes quickly clear how he has arrived at where he is and come to his bonkers conclusions. The second sequence wittily and movingly shows a possible history of our planet - from dinosaurs to current evolution, using stock footage of atrocities as well as material from <I>2001: A Space Odyssey</I> to inspired effect. <p>There are a few problems which occasionally threaten to derail the film: sometimes <I>Planet</I> is frankly too out-there for its own good (the sequence showing the investigate detective shooting bees out the sky for instance), the lurches in tone are sometimes a little difficult to swallow and the ending isn't ambiguous enough for my liking. These are small complaints though, and over-ambitiousness is hardly a serious fault. What I will take away from this is the laughs, the thrills and the unexpected poignancy, which extends to the final credits.

• Ed Fucking H

  
  The full spectrum of human emotion caught on celluloid.

• alan j

  
  This movie has it all and will touch upon every emotion as well..its a film to marvel at..just sit back..gasp..think..laugh...cry..appreciate! <br/>It is a really quirky but enjoyable film.. and wow..what a surprise ending..!!!!!!!

• Wu C

  
  This Korean gem is like nothing I've seen before. So many cool things to appreciate in this movie. It also boasts an interesting mish-mash of genres -included: action/comedy/sci-fi and drama. A must for everybody.

• Jojo S

  
  This movie is a category of its own. It certainly has a deep impact on anti-alienists. I kinda wish they have non-Asian actors in this film since it's sort of a "global crisis," so to speak. It makes me wonder now whether some of mine friends who spend more than 5… More
  This movie is a category of its own. It certainly has a deep impact on anti-alienists. I kinda wish they have non-Asian actors in this film since it's sort of a "global crisis," so to speak. It makes me wonder now whether some of mine friends who spend more than 5 minutes pissing are from Andromeda or not. LOL!

• MJS M

  
  Typical "Asia Extreme" fair. Aside from some wacky developments in the last ten minutes it's really a pretty standard thriller.

• FanGirl B

  
  Really original and really crazy. A lot better and different than you might expect looking at the box art. I would definately recommend this movie.

• Christopher B

  
  Like a Mr. Bungle song in movie form. This movie is all over the place, but it wouldn't be as good in any other way. Funny, scary, touching and sad, this is a truly great film.

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