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

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Lee Byeong-gu is convinced that aliens from the Andromeda galaxy are living amongst us and are planning something dastardly to coincide with an upcoming eclipse. He is believes that Kang Man-shik, the head of a multinational conglomerate, is the aliens' representative on Earth so, with the help of his childlike girlfriend, he kidnaps the man and takes him to his remote home. Here he proceeds to torture the man to try to force him to put him in contact with the Andromedan leader. While this is going on the police are searching for Kang Man-shik and make a link to other disappearances.This film is definitely bizarre; it is clearly a comedy with its strange set up and frequent ridiculous moments but it also has the power to shock. While the torture isn't too graphic most of the time there are disturbing moments... often as we see what Lee Byeong-gu plans to do next. The design of the room where Man-shik is held adds to the disturbing feel; especially after we see remains of previous victims. Ha-kyun Shin does a fine job as Byeong-gu; making the character sympathetic even though he is clearly dangerously insane. Yun-shik Baek also impresses as the naturally terrified and perplexed Man-shik. The tension rises nicely as the film approaches its surreal conclusion. This film certainly won't be for everybody but I'd certainly recommend it for those looking for something rather different.

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.

NO EXACT DETAILS HAVE BEEN MENTIONED WITHIN MY REVIEW, BUT I HAVE TICKED THE SPOILER BOX BECAUSE MY QUALMS DERIVE FROM THE FILMS FINAL TEN MINUTES...Rarely do we see films that blend together so many elements and genres into one single spectacle, however 'Save The Green Planet' manages to achieve this near impossible feat successfully...until the end.Fusing elements of science fiction and comedy with notably darker moments of psychological tension, Save The Green Planet is an extremely watchable film, which will have you hooked right from the get-go, the unfortunate issue being that by the films conclusion you may end up like myself being completely and totally revolted.My revulsion does not derive from the perceived "torture" scenes, which are notably not as grim as other reviewers would have you believe (infact the graphic nature almost pales in comparison to "Sympathy For Mr Vengeance), but from the films conclusion, but we shall come to that during my own conclusion.Save The Green Planet, for one hour forty minutes is a superb film, the fusion of the genres while possibly seeming far-fetched is an utter success but more importantly the narratives and sub plots which drive the story forward are plausible and engaging. The tri-tiered nature of the film stems from Byung-Gu's internal angst with his history, his insanity and his prisoner, and carries on throughout the film with Byung-Gu's abduction of the alleged alien, his mentally underdeveloped 'girlfriend' and her questioned loyalty to him and the police forces attempts to find Byung-Gu (not to mention the internal angst within various elements of the department).The film is gripping, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable which keeps you hanging on til the end, when everything crumbles like a house of cards caught in a gust of wind, and the problem stems from everything that is so successful with this film. While Save The Green Planet has managed to fuse several styles, the director decides at the last minute to change direction and completely shift the dynamic of the film, so what works unravels. The point of Byung-Gu throughout the film is that due to the harsh upbringing he received, through all the violence that was bestowed upon him and the lack of love he received (tipified by his "losing it" when his mother dies) becomes a shell of a man who treads into insanity and is addicted to drugs which only further his delusions. However, after the twist everything is shattered. Byung-Gu's actions them become entirely justified, and all momentum all point and purpose of the film is lost. Those who have seen the film will know of what I speak, and some may derive enjoyment from the somewhat geeky twist, but I felt it spoilt what was turning out to be a riproaringly successful film, and trivialised it. Yes, you could say it's more in tune with the comedic nature of the film, but for me the comedy was only present to provide relief from the excessive tension and furore that was stemming from the battles within Byung's mind and his "laboratory".I apologise for the somewhat disjointed nature of my review, but then the entire nature of Save The Green Planet is disjointed. It manages to fuse together so many genres and yet at the end, does not know what genre it wishes to be. There are so many possible endings for this film (and having noticed there are deleted scenes on the DVD, hazard a guess at one or two being alternate endings), but even if there are not the film should have stuck to its path. It was successful merely by the incorporation of the styles, without a need to chop and change between them, it worked well as a whole, but the director in the films finale breaks them up, throws away all the elements which were brought together and focuses on one. This film would have been an eight or higher had the ending just not been so damned infuriating. It does not make it funny nor poignant, and to be frank I don't want to have to watch this film again and be on the side of Byung knowing the outcome. This film had such promise and it pains me to be so scathing of it, I really enjoyed watching this film, but the ending for me has Spoilt The Green Planet.

As others have mentioned this film is marketed incorrectly. From the cover and the write up (having nothing else to go on), I thought it looked like a comedy. I expected more sci-fi, less sadism. I was thinking something like Brazil, odd, twisted, but not something where I had to close my eyes and/or fast forward through parts. I don't mind a little violence, but this was tasteless and unending!I did kind of like the ending, but I only got there because I refuse to stop watching films. Otherwise I'd have been out of there after the first 20 minutes.I wanted to like this film, to recommend it to friends, but I find myself unable to. I want to write a warning on the DVD case for the next deluded person who picks it up at the library and misinterprets the film.