Space sweepers

Language : Korean

 

Year of release : 2021

 

Run time : 2h17 min

 

Genre : Sci Fi / Action / Space Opera

 

 

In the future, 2092, to be more exact,a billionaire has colonized Mars,turning it into a green planet,looking much like earth.

 

The earth is dying and the billionaire selects the people going to Mars based on how good he thinks them to be. Problem is,he's not so good himself,he's 157 years old,and he must suffer from some disease due to the fact whenever he gets angry his veins show like in zombie movies.

 

After literally snatching an old and crashed space shuttle from the debris of space,the crew of the spaceship Victory find a little girl inside. Based on what they see on the news,they think her to be a robot which can explode on command and kill everything in sight.

The South Korean movie has great visual effects, fight scenes, the heart of the story...good soundtrack.. the movie is multi language, you can hear Russian, German..but for some unknown reason ,bored me.

The movie has a heart through the French guy being in love with the captain of the ship, Jang, the other lead, Tae-Ho, having lost his adoptive daughter whom he loved very much ( he found her on a mission having to k!ll the people there,including her mother,and he took her,loving her like a daughter,literally considering her his daughter), in a blast; and the little girl changing the lives of all the crew members of Victory,one of them being a robot,all of them getting attached to her,considering her their own,becoming her extended family.

 

The acting was good, the actors were appealing, so people have what to look at.

The movie received positive reviews (with a 70% critic rating and a 78% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes; and a 64 score on Metacritic).

The movie was nominated for quite a few awards (in South Korea and the US) and won some. 

 

Fun fact : Google says the budget of the movie was 24 Billion South Korean Wons, KRW, (apparently “only” 22.5 million dollars),with a B!!? And it shows,the movie is on the Hollywood level .

 

Rating : Could have been a contender !