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"Space Sweepers" is all in all an average Sci-Fi movie. Nice plot, good characters and a nice cast, good CGI and fun to watch. I was about to give this movie a solid 6 but when I researched about this movie afterwards I couldn't believe me eyes when I saw that they only had a budget of 21 million USD.

I mean how in the world can they do such a good looking movie playing IN SPACE with such a low budget while a Hollywood movie with a similar look would probably cost over 150 million or even 200 million USD?

And when you can create a movie like this with such a low budget, your movie ist not average; it is good.

Great fun space fantasy that tugs at the heart strings (well it tries to). Cheesy but great fun. Great characters, solid CGI and fair plot.

Not to be taken seriously but good escapist entertainment.

Well done Netflix.

Like a Korean Guardians of the Galaxy. Mind blowing scifi special effects - if this film was in English with a Marvel production logo in the intro everyone would be scoring it 8.5 or 9.

I watched the English version which you don't even notice after 10 minutes. This movie was awesome. Awesome effects, awesome & very original concept, awesome screenplay... It's awesome.

If you like SciFi, this movie is a real treat. If you don't, you will still fall in love with the characters, story arc and spell binding special effects !

Highly recommend - 8/10

This is a Korean version of 'Serenity'. The plot is very similar.

But, I could enjoy the entire watching. Up-dong (A robot) is funny. Kot-nim(A child) is adorable.

Overall, it's recommended. Fun to watch, try it.

ps1. the budget was 21 mil $. Could you believe that?

This was a fast and a fun movie. The plot was simple for SciFi but it was well executed. The effects were great.

Characters: This was Guardians of the Galaxy mixed with Passengers in characters wise. I didn't find the male lead as exciting. However the side characters were great. There was a good diversity in the cast as well.

Plot: Very simple. Sometimes too predictable.

Cinematography: Not too great.

Special Effects: Even better than most US movies.

Will I re-watch this? No. Not because it was bad, simply because this felt like a fun one time event.

Considering the scale of this movie, and what they set out to do, I'd say this was a success. It was off, not perfect, and missed often. But overall, very entertaining, impressive, and promising for a whole new film category for South Korea to add to. And they have a lot now. Btw, it's nice to see a variety of countries and languages represented here, not just the usual English only which I find more realistic in a sense. Btw, it is very difficult to incorporate so many different languages and it didn't always work out. But I always thought these futuristic space stories had way too many people from only certain countries ie USA and UK. Star Wars are suppose to be aliens, not even human, far far away and they are still mostly....English speaking white people basically. No one ever thought this was odd? Anyways, looking forward to more sci-fi to come out of South Korea, and other countries for that matter

Protagonists are very cliche (their background stories & personality traits), so is the antagonist (as often seen: big tech company gone bad, its evilness is poorly motivated...). Classic good versus bad story, lacking of grey levels. Very typical, expected plot & outcome, with lots of plot armor on the way. Fans of action & light entertainment will like it, sci-fi fans (like me) might still take some pleasure because of visuals & the general setting.

Skilled acting...good sci fi plot...beautiful sfx and cgi...re-watchable...*zero identity politics, agenda message, or special interest group pandering... check,check,check!

What a refreshing vid this is to watch! No wonder foreign and indie productions are gaining market shares by leaps and bounds!

Acting: 3 Plot: 2 CGI: 8 Theme: 2 Editing: 3

I adore sci-fi and watch and enjoy sci-fi movies 99% of people have never even heard about. For example, I gave Synchronicity (2015) 8 while it has a 5,5 rating on IMDB. I watch a ton of South Korean movies too. I have for example watched Je-bo-ja (2014) and gave it a 7 while it still only has 614 ratings on IMDB. Even though this had bad reviews I still felt like this sky high budget movie would be enjoyable enough for me. I was wrong, this is bad all the way and a giant waste of time.

The acting is beyond bad. We get the typical comedic over the top Korean acting with a ton of shouting. Also, if you have watched Chinese, Japanese, South Korean movies you will know that they focus on their own ethnic groups and then love to use English speaking characters for some primitive roles like bosses and bad guys with no personality. They hire local White people who have never acted before and are often directed by people who don't speak English so it sounds so hammed up that no English speaker can watch it. Here even the Korean scenes have this type of cringe acting. I did like how it had various languages and one guy even spoke Danish. Luckily he was fairly calm and made it work. Other characters just scream in scenes. Nothing here is enjoyable. We just fly from character to character and they are all boring as we never get to experience a single scene or shot.

The plot is bad. It's extremely predictable and with plot holes every 10 minutes. You can't take this seriously. It has a bad chick leader who seldom speaks and can easily beat up any man. A small girl who farts as that's the main humor of the movie. And the guys are clowns who luck into everything. It feels like an extremely lazy imitation of Firefly with more CGI. They pretty much tried to make a Firefly episode yet this is boring and drawn out. Even the stuff they directly stole from Firefly doesn't work here.

The CGI is actually decent. I have to acknowledge this. But since the editing is so rapid that you rarely get to enjoy any shot the CGI doesn't matter.

Overall it's a bad movie that's impossible to recommend to anyone.

In all honesty I don't get the negative reviews...I mean just by seeing the trailer you realize more or less what is all about. In terms of entertainment this movie is cute and so much fun to watch, and actually delivers...so people moaning all the time by saying oh is that oh is the other, should just enjoy it for what it is. Another good release from South Korea which didn't disappoint.

Space Sweepers is a really impressive film considering its budget of $20 million USD. The CGI and sets are great, and it really proves that you can make high quality films for a cheap price. Aside from that, Space Sweepers is pretty average. The story doesn't really offer anything new and its pretty cliched. The acting was the worst part about Space Sweepers. The main actors were decent enough, but the supporting cast gave underwhelming performances. Lastly, Space Sweepers is way too long, they could've cut about 15-30min and it would've improved the pacing by a large margin. Overall, Space Sweepers is a slightly above average film. The only thing that's holding up this movie are its impressive visuals. I'd only recommend this film if you're into sci-fi and space fights, but if you're coming for a story, then you should give this one a pass.

Lovely VFX. It all seems very promising... but urgh... about 1 hour in I'd had enough and started fast forwarding through it as it doesn't make sense.

The dialogue is terrible as is a lot of the acting (I watched the subtitled version).

It reminds me of The Wandering Earth - a lot of effort into the VFX to make it seem like a blockbuster. But a story that just goes berserk and events that just make you go "what?" all the time. Even making allowances for a different culture and forgiving a lot.

There is clear promise. I've seen few Korean TV series to know they can make it work. But in the end... just no. This movie is a misfire.

Visually this space movie is top quality film making. The sets are beautiful and stunning. The story is good in parts but lost me at some parts. Why something was happening or why they were doing this or that escaped me. The emotional connection and back story are the Korean element which helps give the characters some dimension. Wish the backgrounds and the girls story had been explained earlier to avoid confusion. The multilingual dialogue can be slightly confusing at times.

The hero of the show is played by Song Joong Ki who is still boyish looking and does as good a job as can be hoped for. Kim Tae Ri does a badass role okay. The cute kids act well.The non Korean international cast is not famous except for Richard Armitage who plays the villain.

It's a grand movie and looks great - just a tighter clearer story might have made this a great movie.

Full out space adventure. Not the best of space movies but sure beats the hell out of the latest Star Wars films. Why???? This movie has heart, soul and entertainment.

This is a fun, light movie. Good acting by the lead characters. Good plot and good character development, and great effects. The only downside is that the storyline gets a bit muddled in parts and the English dubbing for a couple minor characters is bad. I'd definitely enjoy this as a series like Firefly.

Full of action, light-hearted, funny and overall entertaining. Some cheesy moments but Kot-Nim is hilarious and the harpoon-wielding AI, Bubs is a bad mofo.

Predictable but most movies like these are and for a lower-budget film, The graphics are pretty spot on.

A little long but worth the watch.

Oh, did I forget to mention the beautiful captain and her handsome crew - always a plus.

All Hollywood can do anymore is give us CGI-fest films with no depth in character or story, or remakes that are almost all worse than their originals. Typically, the films tend to mirror the demands of their audience; people who can barely sit through anything that actually requires some attention.

Korea gives us a great space story that is a bit of a mixture of Wall-E, Firefly, and Blade Runner. The film also gives us a great balance of story, character, and action. Why does the story work so well? Because like all great storytellers, they focus on the story and the characters.

George Lucas once stated, "a film with special effects and no story is a pretty boring thing." Funny how he would actually end up going against his own proverb, and it is also true of what has happened with much of western filmmaking, as stated above.

The film also has a lot of heart, which will make the viewer all the more appreciative that it isn't just an action movie. This is enhanced by veteran actors like Joong-Ki Song (Descendants of the Sun) and Tae-Ri Kim (Mr. Sunshine) as well as Jin Seon-Kyu.

The movie isn't perfect, but if you want a good story, some laughs, and some great action sequences, you won't be disappointed.

Quite silly, however it accomplishes what Hollywood no longer can, it is a fun, feel good flick. Effects are all quite good, story predictable, but at the end you just think, yeah enjoyed that.

There is some quality hidden inside this movie, although it can probably not be fixed in its entirety.

I dig the happy crew vibes of this movie but this movie is sloppy to say the least. The flaws in the story didn't bother me as much as the flaws between the scenes, this made it a particular hard watch. One moment a main actor is about to sacrifice itself and then he walks back on the bridge. Enemies and good guys seem to appear out of nowhere to give this movie an overdose of plot turns or set up scenes.

You also will get sidetracked a lot into unessisary scenes that are only distracting. A lot of my criticism would be fixable by just releasing a better cut, removing distracting scenes that don't progress the storyline and removing scenes that don't tie up loose ends, and then its needs to set up the remaining scenes properly with some more dialogue, this last item would be a hard fix. This movie is probably a 4.5 and i am giving it a 5 just for the attempt and for the love of sci fi. If they would fix it i guess it has an 6 or 6.5 potential.

Space Sweepers is a pretty solid ride with great CGI especially when you consider the budget was around 21mil (USD). I see a lot of people saying that the acting was subpar for some of the cast and supporting cast, but how can you truly gauge it when you're more than like watching it in another language.

It met the expections I have for these Netflix Sci Fi films. If you enjoyed Wandering Earth then you will more than likely enjoy this as well.

Light-hearted, entertaining movie with endearing main cast and characters, plus an easy-to-follow plot-line that isn't annoyingly convoluted. There were several scenes where the screenplay was slightly unpolished, but it was not a major issue, since the movie was so entertaining. This movie has cool action sequences combined with sweet moments. For those seeking to be entertained by wacky adventures in space, this is a good watch.

Which is probably just as well as this movie does make me want to scream and claw out my eyeballs just because. This movie is so cliched and everything is so forced. You can feel the effort that went into every scene and sentence, every addition to this movie, and that's not how a good movie is supposed to feel.

Don't get me wrong, I am no prude and I enjoy dropping cuss-words as much as the next guy but the cuss-words in this movie, aside from being way too much, just felt fake. It felt like the movie was trying too hard to be cool and appeal to a western audience (yeah! Put in some more cuss-words, the audience will LOVE that!) The whole script and everything about it just felt unnatural, forced, and very much self-aware.

Space sweepers can safely be swept under the rug.

Oh, CGI was nice.

Futuristic movie about space sweepers. The good thing about this is the inclusion of all other languages. I really liked that. The point of humanity and the exploitation of the weaker just to carry out the propaganda. Another hint to save our planet until its too late