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Save the Green Planet

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 10 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Foreign | Horror | Sci-fi
Written by: Jun-hwan Jeong
Directed by: Jun-hwan Jeong
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 20, 2005
DVD: September 6, 2005
Running Time: 116 minutes, Color
Origin: South Korea
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Very inventive, but stay away if you can't stomach over-the-top violence.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Will thrill those who prefer their violence graphic and their comedy surreal.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Richard James Havis
Exists as a freaked-out drama rather than a parody.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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.
