Seungriho (2021)

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   Siskoid

   I'm used to effects movies out of Asia to be a step behind their American cousins, but not Korea's Space Sweepers, which looks as good as any American SF spectacular. The set-up is familiar, with a polluted Earth being abandoned by the Top 1%, and our heroes essentially garbage hustlers catering to these "citizens" in orbit to get out of debt. Then the really very cool heroes (I especially like the robot character, but they're all quite badass and interesting) find a little girl said to be a dangerous weapon and things will never be the same. A lot of fun with high stakes both in reality and emotionally, though I did find the villain needed to be more filled out. His motivation, as read, is rather two-dimensional, and there seem to be things going on there that required explanation, or might have benefited from them, at least. It's surprising because there's quite a lot of world-building going on, and the heroes all have back stories to flesh them out and make those crazy action sequences resonate as more than mere spectacle. I will say, however, that the movie had a good ending and then indulged in too many epilogues fabricated from what I recognize as Korean cheese. But what Space Sweepers REALLY needs is a better title. I'm not sure this one does it any favors. It's a lot better than it sounds. 1 year 11 months ago
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   devilsadvocado

   Linguistically over-ambitious. A muddle of bad acting and foreign languages/accents. But I was still totally hooked. 3 years 3 months ago
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   bertie.needs.to.watch.more.films

   Why was I so laughably bored? 1 year 9 months ago

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