Song Joong Ki and Kim Tae Ri’s Sci-fi Movie Space Sweepers Debuts on Netflix with Positive Critic Reviews

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• I liked the film and it had incredible special effects to see, I also wanted the film to be good and successful because unfortunately it could not debut in the cinema, even so doing it on Netflix I do not think it is a bad second option.

  In flixpatrol it seems I occupy the number 1 place worldwide, it is the second Korean film (if I am not mistaken) that does it and everything in less than a year, this is quite good since Korean cinema is a quality cinema and little by little it is becoming a small place in a market full of North American or European films.

• I'm looking forward to watching it tomorrow

• I'm interested what people think. On a different site, it was considered too long and kinda of "meh" though not horrible. I just don't have great luck with K-movies.

  • It IS too long and as I expected basically a ripoff of GOTG and other Western space films. But KTR was awesome as usual. If Koala is going to claim that all reviewers gave positive reviews, wish she added links to those articles. This reviewer gave it two and half stars.

    https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-pop/k-movies/article/3120670/netflix-movie-review-space-sweepers-song-joong-ki-heads

    • This one gives a more detailed review.

      https://geekculture.co/geek-review-space-sweepers-netflix/

    • Just read it. I agree. Could have been better as a series.

  • I wasn't able to finish it. Maybe I was expecting too much. The acting was okay (Kim Tae Ri was badass!). The visual effects were awesome. But everything else felt so unoriginal. Is it that great to be compared to GotG or Cowboy Bebop? Because Space Sweepers seems like a knockoff.

    @Kat
    SK makes plenty of excellent thrillers and horror movies.

    • it's true, personally, I really enjoyed Forgotten and the call, they both move between thriller and horror, from my perspective they are clear proofs that a mega budget is not always synonymous with quality.

    • Even the so-called positive reviews point out its unoriginality. And the alleged “so pretty complimentary“ comparisons to GOTG and Cowboy Bebop come off like a kind way of calling it the knockoff it is. In these pandemic times, standards are quite low. And as this will provide much-needed distraction, people will definitely eat it up despite it being a poor clone of better space/sci-fi flicks.

    • You exhaled too soon, Koala. Neways, KTR was a joy to watch and the reviews I've read so far single out her performance. Even though she was practically playing Korean Gamora with a side of Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie in Thor. Like others, I agree that there's nothing particularly special or unique about this movie.

• I liked it! Congrats to the cast and crew and film prod. I too wanted this movie to do well, and it did not disappoint. In a way, I was happy it landed on Netflix since I get to see it at the same time as the rest of the world. IMHO, there is a little bit of wow factor and attention to detail that this film is missing to get me as engaged and wowed as when I first saw Guardians of the Galaxy, but overall, it is a great film that I'm sure international audience will like.

• Personally, I was not impressed. I expected more considering how Hallyu enthusiasts are always bashing Western shows/movies in order to elevate K-dramas/K-movies. I found it derivative (of Hollywood space movies - the irony) with nothing new to say and unnecessarily lengthy. Just my opinion.

  • Here's another irony: if China ripped off like this, they'd never hear the end of it. Yet Korea does it [[for the bajillionth time]] and it's so pretty complimentary.

    • Boom!

• I just finished the movie and I really liked it as a whole! It started out weird in the beginning though and I felt disconnected to the characters and the plot. Plus all the different languages being spoken and yet was understood by everyone thanks to translating device, that whole thing felt weird and bothered me for some reason. It felt a bit like several different movies in different languages were mashed into one, I could hardly concentrate during the Danish and Korean exchange, it was mind boggling to listen to although at least that was a real Danish speaking! The movie really picked up when it focused more on the Korean characters and and their common a goal that started with money and ended up being so much more. I totally got Guardians of the galaxy feels and ended up loving it by the end! Also I was really surprised how well made the special effects were, I thought it would be mediocre but instead it was on the level of any big western sci-fi theatre movie. I also think it’s a pity it didn’t get a theatrical release but also grateful I got to watch it on Netflix at the same time as everyone else and in the end it will reach a broader audience. Highly recommended, just get past that weird start!

• I think it is a film that the general public will enjoy, but even so it felt technically well done but not forceful in its story, the criticism itself is mixed, but I think that with the evident budget spent on this film I am left to owe.

• The movie was good, but the non-korean actors had that low budget feeling to them. The main villian was cartoon evil, and there wasn't any backstory to why they acted the way they did.

  • Agree. Their dialogues were really cringe. Even Richard Armitage who is a trained actor couldn't do so much to elevate the badly written lines given to him.

• It's not a bad movie, but it's not a good one either.
  it is simply entertaining.
  The girl actress is so cute.

• I didn't like it. Good thing it was shown on Netflix or it might have bombed at the box office.

  • I agree. Wholeheartedly. I think on some level they knew it too.