Save the Green Planet!

Name: Save the Green Planet!
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Released: April 20, 2005
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 70

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Koch Lorber Films | Release Date: April 20, 2005 | Not Rated

Summary: Save the Green Planet is a tilt-a whirl genre-blender from Korea that turns film history against itself to create one of the most savage, affecting and inspired anti-violence movies ever made. This is a movie that defies all marketing labels and is exactly what it wants to be: like nothing you've ever seen before. [Koch Lorber Films]

Director: Joon-Hwan Jang

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 118 min

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Bob Westal

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. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

The best film in the alien attack, conspiracy theory, "Silence of the Lambs" rip-off, disgraced-cop drama, deranged circus wirewalker, anti-capitalist parable genre I've seen this year. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Director-writer Jang Jun-hwan starts things off with a bang and never looks back, pushing up the excitement periodically. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Ferociously entertaining. Read full review

Derek Elley

Though certainly not to everyone's tastes, this looney-tunes pic about a deranged serial killer who thinks he's helping Earth by killing off supposed aliens works on a variety of levels, from gruesome slapstick comedy through social critique to genuinely chilling Grand Guignol. Read full review

J. Hoberman

Mad conspiracy rules in Korean writer-director Jang Jun-hwan's snazzy, playful, some-what gory, often hilarious, and generally unpredictable first feature. Read full review

Richard James Havis

Exists as a freaked-out drama rather than a parody. Read full review

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PeteF.

Oct 2, 2005

Awesome, funny and moving.

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NJStixx

Apr 7, 2006

Extremely well done.

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JoeH.

Dec 4, 2007

one more amazing Korean film, touching on all sorts of ideas, brilliantly organized, both visually, aurally and thematically. the director is focused on his love for genre, pathos, every movie he has ever seen, and an obsessive yen for Kubrick. While we will see amazing homages to 2001, we one more amazing Korean film, touching on all sorts of ideas, brilliantly organized, both visually, aurally and thematically. the director is focused on his love for genre, pathos, every movie he has ever seen, and an obsessive yen for Kubrick. While we will see amazing homages to 2001, we are taken back to Killer's Kiss, all sorts of wild sci fi films, the wizard of oz, and it's mixed together with a speed freak anti-hero whose obsession for the truth will pull the audience through a world that makes Saw look like a 50's Donna Reed sit com. I can't wait to see what jang joon-hawn has on the griddle for his second film.… Expand

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Broyax

Dec 27, 2016

On dit que les Japonais sont parfois bizarres mais ce n'est rien, rien du tout en comparaison des Coréens. Regardez les films qu'ils font... regardez "Save the Green Planet" pour voir !

Un "torture porn" des plus glauques avec ici et là tout le mauvais goût qui l'accompagne ainsi que pasOn dit que les Japonais sont parfois bizarres mais ce n'est rien, rien du tout en comparaison des Coréens. Regardez les films qu'ils font... regardez "Save the Green Planet" pour voir !

Un "torture porn" des plus glauques avec ici et là tout le mauvais goût qui l'accompagne ainsi que pas mal de raccourcis côté scénario. Complètement à l'ouest, le film ne fait que s'enfoncer outrancièrement dans un mélange de grotesque et de guimauve putassière, seule la fin inattendue tente de relever le niveau pour aussitôt retomber dans un déluge de mauvais goût (encore).

Il faut reconnaître que les acteurs donnent le meilleur d'eux-mêmes dans cette pantalonnade ravagée de la tête et un tel dévouement dans la caricature force le respect. On ne sait pas trop sur quel pied danser avec un tel film qui ne se révèle ni un bon thriller ni une vraie satire... à moins d'avoir un sens de l'humour très particulier.

La réalisation à peine correcte une partie du temps se laisse très souvent aller au grand n'importe quoi pour le reste : secouage de caméra épileptogène de Parkinson à faire mourir de honte Paul Greengrass (ça doit être un extra-terrestre coréen lui aussi).… Expand

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