It's possible I need to give this movie some more thought. Culkin's character was incredibly irritating and cringey. The movie ended abruptly with seemingly no resolution. I can't figure out what to think or feel. It just leaves me frustrated.
I'm open to the idea that this is my emotional or movie immaturity and this movie really was great/meaningful/poignant.
Another point for my argument that longer movies are better. This movie is 91 minutes. 2.5/5.
This movie was like Snowpiercer 2. Same ideas, similar imagery. Except the set pieces and action scenes in Snowpiercer were way better.
The satire was pretty on the nose, but I'm pretty politically aware, so maybe it would be more interesting to someone who was a little more checked out and not already exposed to these ideas. Not that the ideas were deep or esoteric at all. Although, the Venn diagram intersection between people hyped to see a Bong Joon-Ho…
Sick animation, with a couple of absolutely jaw-dropping fight scenes.
Viewing it as a 80 million dollar movie (which is the most expensive animated movie ever made in China and top 10 for any Chinese movie) made for a domestic Chinese audience is also quite interesting. I want to be careful because if you think hard enough, anything can be anything, but I think there are a couple of interesting pro-China messages hidden within. The eventual chief antagonist, who is…
