Before We Vanish

Name: Before We Vanish
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Released: February 2, 2018
Duration: 129 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Kazuya Kojima, Ken Mitsuishi, Kyôko Koizumi

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Shochiku Company | Release Date: February 2, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Kazuya Kojima, Ken Mitsuishi, Kyôko Koizumi, Mahiro Takasugi, Masahiro Higashide, Masami Nagasawa, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shin'nosuke Mitsushima, Takashi Sasano

Summary: Three aliens travel to Earth on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for a mass alien invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob the hosts of their essence – good, evil, property, family, belonging – leaving only hollow shells, which are all but unrecognizable to their loved ones.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 129 min

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The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

May 28, 2017

Anytime it feels that Before We Vanish is getting too caught up in its thought process, the director is always ready with a flash of ultra violence, slapstick humor, or a pithy line. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Feb 1, 2018

Mr. Kurosawa, a prolific and skilled genre master, spins this parable with a light, nimble touch, punctuating heavy passages of exposition with punchy, modest action sequences and snatches of incongruously bouncy music. Read full review

Kate Taylor

Feb 15, 2018

The cast of aliens, led by Matsuda, has great fun playing the humans-in-training, but it's Nagasawa's defeated young wife who really stands out as the performance that elevates the film. Read full review

Maggie Lee

May 28, 2017

Playing frequently like an absurdist political satire with only flashes of violence, this low-tension, drawn-out work won’t gratify the chills or adrenaline rushes fanboys crave, but the ending strikes a romantic chord so pure that all but the most jaded cynics will be moved. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Feb 1, 2018

The promise of Before We Vanish’s early moments is never fully realized, however, as the movie plods and meanders through an overly-familiar narrative on its way to a half-baked and uneven conclusion. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Feb 6, 2018

Before We Vanish is almost too much of a stretch for Kurosawa, veering from gory sci-fi horror to screwball comedy to marital drama to alien conspiracy potboiler without the necessary connective tissue to give his genre cocktail equilibrium. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 14, 2018

It’s a sardonic satire that lacks the wit, style or pacing to let it come off. Read full review

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