How sad is this?

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I like this horror movie. The monster they made for this movie looks realistic enough.

This is a great non-cliche monster movie! Actually, the interesting part is that the story revolves around analyzing the human nature. Although the mutant creature is the cause of everything, the characters matter the most ("The mist" comes in mind somehow). Mixed feelings is the definition of this. Satirical, funny, awkwardly funny, then there's drama and so much drama that it turns out to be funny; also some action scenes, some ridiculously funny scenes and many awkward moments; the black comedy is pretty prominent here actually. I like how it jumps from dramatic scenes to comedy scenes. There are some symbolic scenes here too. I'm not going to reveal them of course, but I must mention the scene where all 4 main characters are gathered at the table and then something happens. This is not a spoiler because the scene is very obvious. Powerful and emotional moments like this are actually scattered throughout the whole movie. I don't know why I saw some horror tags. I don't actually see too much horror in this... maybe some shocking moments, but far from horror. The creature's animation was awesome. I'm not a big fan of CGI (especially movies abusing special effects), but this is CGI done with style. The movements and... acrobatics of the creature look very organic, they're very smooth and delicate. I was trying to understand the concept of the creature, for some reason... it's an ichthyo-amphibian mutant or something, but its behavior is not at all similar to a fish or a salamander or frog. Well, this is not the point; the point is that the governmental corporations are corrupted and USA sucks... look I'm being funny now. No, seriously... great movie!

I LOVE monster movies, and I've been looking for this movie for a while, but I couldn't find it because of Stephanie Meyer's movie with the same name. Finally, Netflix added it. I really wanted to like it, but despite the other reviews, I've found the FX bad. The animation was amazing, but there was something odd and the monster seemed out of place, I think it was the texture. Maybe if it had some scales instead of polliwog skin (I guess that is what they wanted to achieve?) it would have looked better.Anyway, that wouldn't have matter if the movie wasn't boring. I just didn't feel anything (except from the scene with the pictures). The tense moments didn't feel tense, or maybe it is just my love for monsters. And some parts were too slow. But I had already watched half of it so I had to finish.However since there are people here that loved it so much, I suggest you to watch it, maybe you are one of them and pass a good time.

I was really curious about this movie since it was the first Korean movie i saw, and i gotta say: what a surprise. The plot is complicated, but is well-built. I gotta be honest by saying that some sequences were pretty much useless. I watched this in original language (obviously with subtitles), and some dialogs were just... weird. That surely didn't ruin the movie, and it's also explainable by the fact that translating Korean's figure of speech must be nearly impossible. The characters are kind of weird, especially the blonde one (which can be regarded as the protagonist, maybe) which is clearly a mix of paternal love, bravery and pure retardation. (yes, pure retardation.) I'm sincerely amazed by the special effects (even though i found out they were US-made) since the monster was beautifully done. Some scenes were simply smart, the movie was also hilarious at certain points.Surely worth a watch, in my opinion, also because it's something totally different