Fantastic!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

As almost everybody has said, if you want to try something different, this is your chance. It requires sense of humor, to be ready for some explicit violence (it is still vengeance, Korean style) and mostly, sense of irony.Irony as a rethorical device drives us to wonder about what appears to be the case vs. what is actually the case. The definition of "irony" fits perfectly this movie:"A strange, funny, or sad situation in which things happen in the opposite way to what you would expect". Well, imagine that you apply that definition to something like "The Silence of the Lambs" and this is what you get. A well crafted film full of thrilling suspense but with strange, funny and sad twists. Don't take the movie poster at face value and don't ask about the plot (the irony goes from beginning to the very end, starting with the poster all the way to end credits). Just immerse yourself in this emotional roller-coaster and enjoy the ride!

Starting as some sort of wacky comedy, the movie gets a bit dull for about 30 or 40 minutes, catching interest once again and more or less staying like that until the DEPRESSING ending. Sorry, I don't mean to give away any spoilers, but people should know that, regardless the humour in the movie, the ending is depressing. Until the end, it is one of those movies that combine comedy, drama, thrill and a few other genres.It reminds me a bit of "Platillos Volantes", particularly the end (which I didn't find so depressing in the Spanish film). And, well, the big difference of "P.V." being based on actual real events.A watchable movie, although nothing really special about it (the plot itself is somehow original, but there's not so much brilliance once it is put into action).

I like this film as long as it plays out like a Sam Raimi, where the camera is overactive and discovers scenes of goofy violence and a dementia of plot. In this case an imbalanced young man wearing a funny hat of blinking lights kidnaps a CEO thinking he's a member of a villainous race of aliens intent to destroy the Earth. Watching this however, I had an increasingly unpleasant feeling in my stomach, something was wrong. It's not only the sight of a human being strapped to a chair and subjected to physical and mental torture, I believe there's even a time to make light of horror, war, or atrocity, and it's valuable because it allows us to draw out the unspeakable, the taboo, in the arena of the conscious mind and exorcize it there in a safe environment. Horror cleanses and liberates this way, and in part this is a horror film. The basement of torture is lit in fluorescent sickly lights like a Saw film.The unpleasant feeling I had relates to a certain kind of violence here that comes from us discovering who is the torturer, who the tortured, and how they figure together. In short, committing a moral wrong doesn't avenge another moral wrong. I'm called to feel sorry for the crazy young man, as the movie progresses he emerges as more than a cartoon of 'wacko!', a broken human being to be pitied, this is to the movie's credit of course, but I'm called to feel sorry for him even as I see him become a worse oppressor, a demon shell of a human that should be put out of his misery. The film is heavyhanded this way and the difference with a Bong film like Memories of Murder is that Save the Green Planet! finds the caricature in the midst of suffering but without solid moral ground to stand on.I'd prefer this as a straight-out horror comedy.

I watched this movie quite some time ago. And I have to admit, that I wasn't so sure about the movie or how I should feel about it! I originally would've only have given it 6/10, if I had voted for it back then.I don't think that there are many people who know this little gem, outside from Korea! And it's almost impossible to recommend it to somebody. Because it's a very special movie. It does go against the flow and it's not at all a Blockbuster! What it is, is unique, thought provoking, always challenging and disturbing. But mostly in a good way (even if it takes you longer to figure out, how you feel about it, as was the case with me)! To tell you anything at all about the story would be spoiling the fun of discovering it on your own ... If you think you can handle a movie, where you just don't know what to make of it ... watch this! That's all I'm going to say ...