Movie Review for Save the Green Planet

Summary: Lee Byeong-Gu 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. Specifically, Andromedans. Nasty, disgusting Andromedan aliens who have infiltrated human society. Sly Andromedans who are planning to destroy our planet at the next lunar eclipse. The one alien possessing the Royal Genetic Code needed to contact Andromeda's Crown Prince and stop the destruction just happens to be his old boss, CEO of Yuje Chemicals, Kang Man-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 stop the invasion. Of course, it's hard to confess to something that's just a delusion in a sick man's mind.

                         Reviews of Save the Green Planet
By Jamie Russell of BBC (7/0)
            This energetically inventive, off-the-wall outing conceals a surprisingly powerful story about be...

By Daniel Etherington of Channel 4 Film (7/0)
            Energetic, genre-straddling, and dubiously inspired, Save The Green Planet is a remarkable film.

By Andrea Gronvall of Chicago Reader (7/0)
            Punk graphics and a snaking camera add zest to the story, which is alternately heartbreaking, sus...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            Save the Green Planet just can't shake its repellent, stagnant mood.

By Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
            Gives new meaning to the words 'alien abduction'

By Patrick Peters of Empire Magazine (7/0)
            Jeong can't resist plumping for a grandstand finish that undoes much of his previous good work.

                         Reviews of Save the Green Planet
By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (7/0)
            Wrapped up in all this madness is an affecting human core.

By Ethan Alter of Film Journal International (7/0)
            Part thriller, part dark comedy, part sci-fi epic, Save the Green Planet is both insanely addicti...

By Bob Westal of Film Threat (7/0)
            Save the Green Planet may look like an ironic, jet black comedy -- and it succeeds brilliantly on...

By Don Willmott of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            Writer/director Jang Jun Hwan has an imagination to be envied, and luckily he knows how to deploy...

By Edward Havens of FilmJerk.com (7/0)
            A frighteningly funny and maniacally messed-up trip through one man’s psychotic fantasy.

By Jennie Punter of Globe and Mail (7/0)
            Entertaining, visually inventive and truly out-there.

                         Reviews of Save the Green Planet
By Richard James Havis of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            The film's success is mainly down to its vibrant energy. Cinematography is zappy, making much use...

By Bruce Kirkland of Jam! Movies (7/0)
            While Save The Green Planet has a certain cult appeal for its wicked, subversive tone, it is such...

By Luke Y. Thompson of New Times (7/0)
            ...has a Hitchcockian sense of suspense to it

By Gene Seymour of Newsday (7/0)
            Unlike just about every other American action movie, this film knows how to embrace momentum with...

By Noel Murray of Onion AV Club (7/0)
            Save The Green Planet has a free-ranging mood, mixing tragedy and comedy irregularly, but Jeong's...

By Louis Proyect of rec.arts.movies.reviews (7/0)
            Grand Guignol comedy

                         Reviews of Save the Green Planet
By Ruthe Stein of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            There's a very human story within the one involving possible space aliens.

By Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            Made up of equal parts whimsy and dementia, Jang Jun-hwan relentlessly pushes his story of madnes...

By Jeff Shannon of Seattle Times (7/0)
            Like any roller-coaster ride, it may make you queasy, but you'll never be bored.

By Chris Barsanti of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Save the Green Planet is about the best science fiction slapstick since The Adventures of Buckaro...

By Derek Adams of Time Out (7/0)
            The film oscillates between wild humour, suspense, horror and pathos, sometimes all in one shot. ...

By Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            Part serial-killer policier, part Body Snatchers science fiction, this ferociously entertaining h...

                         Reviews of Save the Green Planet
By J. Hoberman of Village Voice (7/0)
            Mad conspiracy rules in Korean writer-director Jang Jun-hwan's snazzy, playful, somewhat gory, of...

By Brian Gibson of Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) (7/0)
            All this melodramatic wackiness might be entertaining B-movie material if it weren’t dragged down...

By Devin Faraci of CHUD (6/1) No reference
            If I really had to break Save the Green Planet down I would say that it’s Carpenter’s They Live b...

By Bob Westal of Film Threat (3/4) No reference
            May look like an ironic, jet black comedy -- and it succeeds brilliantly on that level -- but in ...

By V.A. Musetto of New York Post (3/4) No reference
            Director-writer Jang Jun-hwan starts things off with a bang and never looks back.

By Stephen Whitty of Newark Star-Ledger (3/4) No reference
            Makes you wonder just what new talent the increasingly inventive and idiosyncratic Korean cinema ...

                         Reviews of Save the Green Planet
By Murray Whyte of Toronto Star (3/4) No reference
            Demented yet somehow humane, Save The Green Planet is a visually ingenious hybrid melding horror,...

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