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Save the Green Planet
Koch Lorber Films

Save the Green Planet reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 70 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.4 out of 10
based on 14 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Ha-kyun Shin, Yun-shik Baek, Jeong-min Hwang, Jae-yong Lee, Ju-hyeon Lee, and Ju-bong Gi

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)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Foreign  |  Horror  |  Sci-fi  
WRITTEN BY: Jun-hwan Jeong  
DIRECTED BY: Jun-hwan Jeong  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: September 6, 2005 
Theatrical: April 20, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 116 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: South Korea 
LANGUAGE(S): Korean (with English subtitles) 

Original title "Jigureul jikyeora!"

What The Critics Said

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90
Film Threat 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.
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80
Salon.com 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.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
A very human story.
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75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter
Certainly a bizarre kind of virtuoso filmmaking, but it does not feel precocious or burdened with too many ideas.
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75
New York Post V.A. Musetto
Director-writer Jang Jun-hwan starts things off with a bang and never looks back, pushing up the excitement periodically.
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75
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Very inventive, but stay away if you can't stomach over-the-top violence.
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75
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Will thrill those who prefer their violence graphic and their comedy surreal.
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70
TV Guide Ken Fox
Ferociously entertaining.
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70
Variety 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.
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70
Village Voice 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.
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67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
All the furiousness doesn't really add up to anything, but there is grungy fun to be had in gizmo-laden art direction and the increasingly bizarre battle of wits of the weirdly warped South Korean sci-fi black comedy.
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60
The New York Times Manohla Dargis
At once a sick comedy, a bile-raising thriller and a genre pastiche, Save the Green Planet is a welter of conflicting tones, dissonant moods and warring intentions.
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60
The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
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.
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60
The Hollywood Reporter Richard James Havis
Exists as a freaked-out drama rather than a parody.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Joe H. gave it a9:
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.

Benjamin B. gave it a1:
I'm sorry, but there is a difference between original design and innovative storytelling- and cracked out editing to create a bossy and demanding attention keeper. There are so many twists that by the time the movie ends, you simply don't care.... about anyone or anything.

NJ Stixx gave it a9:
Extremely well done.

Pete F. gave it a10:
Awesome, funny and moving.

karen m gave it a1:
Terrible. We almost walked out. 2 hours of watching someone get tortured. Not much humour.

Pete B. gave it a9:
Higly inventive film. Improbable plot, but well-acted with suspense that draws the viewer into its web.

Dan B. gave it a9:
Bizarre. Definitely different - it had me laughing out loud in parts But it has heavy moments, not for the faint of heart. Definitely see it if you can, if only because you don't often see a film so strange yet coherent.

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