Korean movies have come a long way and have become a major force. I didn't consider watching Korean movies in the past, but during the past few years, I find myself watching more and more Korean movies. However, a movie like this is an embarrassment to the burgeoning Korean movie industry.
This movie fails in multiple dimensions. Most importantly, it is simply devoid of any meaningful story. It pretends to have a storyline. Indeed, it tells a lot of stories -- a young astronaut trying to realize his father's legacy, a failed scientist trying to redeem his failure, humanism that goes beyond national interest, etc. But, all the story elements are cliche at best and do not fit coherently at all. It is just a mess created by combining fragments of the stories from the past space disaster movies (e.g., Gravity, Martian, etc.).
The acting was truly horrible. Do Kyung Soo, who is supposed to be an ace UDT (the elitist special force in Korea), looks totally clueless and just screams during the entire movie. He is reminiscent of a B-level horror movie actress B, whose job is just screaming around until she dies. Seol Kyung Goo portrayed one of the most cliched character in the movie history, and it was just embarassing to watch Kim Hee Ae, especially when she was making a "saving the Korean astronaut speech to the American astronauts".
The special effects were mediocre at best, although I must acknowledge that the Korean movies have gone a long way to be where they are now (in a very short period of time). The series of events happened during the course of the movie were more or less random without amounting to anything.
All these amount to a movie that has no point. There is no story that we can immerse; the acting is too poor to be appreciated; the events are uninspiring and random. There was nothing I could salvage from this movie. This movie might offer some value to the fans of Do Kyung Soo, the protagonist, who used to be a member of a popular Korean idol group. Otherwise, you will do yourself a favor by skipping this movie.
This movie fails in multiple dimensions. Most importantly, it is simply devoid of any meaningful story. It pretends to have a storyline. Indeed, it tells a lot of stories -- a young astronaut trying to realize his father's legacy, a failed scientist trying to redeem his failure, humanism that goes beyond national interest, etc. But, all the story elements are cliche at best and do not fit coherently at all. It is just a mess created by combining fragments of the stories from the past space disaster movies (e.g., Gravity, Martian, etc.).
The acting was truly horrible. Do Kyung Soo, who is supposed to be an ace UDT (the elitist special force in Korea), looks totally clueless and just screams during the entire movie. He is reminiscent of a B-level horror movie actress B, whose job is just screaming around until she dies. Seol Kyung Goo portrayed one of the most cliched character in the movie history, and it was just embarassing to watch Kim Hee Ae, especially when she was making a "saving the Korean astronaut speech to the American astronauts".
The special effects were mediocre at best, although I must acknowledge that the Korean movies have gone a long way to be where they are now (in a very short period of time). The series of events happened during the course of the movie were more or less random without amounting to anything.
All these amount to a movie that has no point. There is no story that we can immerse; the acting is too poor to be appreciated; the events are uninspiring and random. There was nothing I could salvage from this movie. This movie might offer some value to the fans of Do Kyung Soo, the protagonist, who used to be a member of a popular Korean idol group. Otherwise, you will do yourself a favor by skipping this movie.